Yesterday, the Social Innovation Fund announced their inaugural grantees–eleven in total–that received grants between two and ten million dollars to be distributed over the next one to two years. While the Social Innovation Fund has received mixed reviews in terms of it’s scope and veritable innovativeness, this collaborative among the federal government, private funders, the… [Read more…]
July 6, 2010 by John C. Ronquillo
Innovation is a buzzword. It has been for quite some time. Let’s face it, we all want to believe that our organizations, or we as individuals, have a high capacity to innovate (and for the sake of humanity, let’s hope we do,) but let me pose a rhetorical question here: is it safe to say… [Read more…]
June 8, 2010 by Sondra Barringer
I have been reading about organizational structure of higher education organizations as part of the background reading for a paper I am working on and it got me thinking about organizational boundaries and how it relates to the key players involved in organizations. When thinking about for-profit businesses there are three key constituencies which come… [Read more…]
January 18, 2010 by Sondra Barringer
It has occurred to me in the course of revising a work in progress that in the general literature on organizations there is surprisingly little discussion of sector differences or governance differences as mediating or conditioning the impacts of some of our fundamental theories. Neoinstitutionalism, resource dependency and population ecology are just some theories or… [Read more…]
January 8, 2010 by John C. Ronquillo
Hi all. Welcome to our new online venture. As you can expect, with all of us being PhD students, we have quite a bit on our plates and updates are surely forthcoming. My name is John Ronquillo and I am in my third year at the University of Georgia where I’m a doctoral candidate in… [Read more…]
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July 23, 2010 by John C. Ronquillo
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