Corporation culture in businesses and innovation management

Abstract

‘Change’, whether planned or not, is transformation of a system (humans or organisations), progress or environment from a circumstance to another in certain conditions. Change also represents the qualities that organisations and humans have in changing dimensions and is a fundamental characteristic of every human society. Heraclius said ‘Nothing is permanent except change’. To change, in a way, is life itself. Social change is a change within the structure of a society. As for organisational change, it expresses all manner of change that can take place within various subsystems and factors of an organisation and the relations between them. ‘Innovation’, however, is a process of change, but not every change is an innovation. If the change is original and contributes to the efficient and economic implementation of objectives to the system its changes, it can be counted as innovation. While change can be in a positive or negative way, innovation can only be positive.

Keywords: Corporate culture, innovation management, innovation.