ROLE OF THE ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY-BASED PROJECTS AT THE HIGHER EDUCATION. PERCEPTIONS OF THE RESEARCHERS

摘要

In recent years, educational technology and innovative programs have been introduced to many education systems. Although these technologies have a great potential to improve teaching, learning and management processes especially at higher education, many obstacles and resistance hinder their implementation. In order to shift towards an entrepreneurial higher education institution, organisational culture needs to be adapted to the present conditions. Given the importance of the subject, there is a need for a deeper look into the nature of organisational culture in the context of its relationships with innovative and technology-based development for educational institutions. This paper attempts to show and critically analyse the role of organisational culture on the development of innovation and technology-based projects (ITBP) at the higher education; particularly by considering the perceptions of the researchers. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 34 researchers from different fields. Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) was used in this study. Academic people (89%) from well-developed organisation in terms of physical components had better results in developing innovation and technology when compared to the academic people from non well-developed cultural organisation. Furthermore, values of the organisation are significantly important in order to increase the depthless of the innovation and technology-based projects development.