EFFICIENCY AND DYNAMICS OF THE ORGANIZATIONS: INNOVATION AND DECLINE

摘要

The organization can be a potential resource for encouraging innovation in a company. In its turn, innovation changes the organization. In this research paper we will endeavour to study and understand the network of mutual determination of the couple which we will call: "Organization - innovating Process". We will therefore seek to understand and determine the organizational elements which increase creative effervescence. System dynamics enables us to understand, over periods of time, how the process of innovation is created as well as how it can disappear. Indeed, it is in the duration and lifecycle of the organization that one can observe the collaborative forces which create the conditions for innovation. We wish to show that the changes of an organization's state and the properties which result from this exacerbate or on the contrary inhibit innovation. Innovation is a dynamic process which begins with the identification and acquisition of knowledge and ends with transferring and implementing this knowledge into organizational initiatives. This process is influenced by the organizational characteristics, the strategic decisions and contingency factors. It may be noticed that the organization structures the forms of collaboration, the strategy of knowledge, the maturity of projects, etc…. We will highlight the principal feedback loops which determine the evolution of innovation processes and we will propose a model which presents, in a qualitative way, the behaviours and the counter-intuitive effects which result from interactions between variables. We based our research on a study carried out in a company. Our model can be used to teach the dynamics of organizational innovation.