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Innovation,Flexibility, Change-Premises of Organizational Development

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Todorut, Amalia Venera

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The features of innovation, flexibility and change mutually influence one another. Provided that change is perceived as a feature leading to innovation, flexibility is the feature that enables it. Innovation cannot exist without change but nonetheless each and every change leads to innovation. Flexibility is a necessary condition but not sufficient for the innovation since it is influenced by change and balanced by flexibility. This fact suggests that the flexible companies lead to a more significant innovation comparatively to those inflexible. The innovations are more likely to develop when the organizational conditions allow flexibility. Concerning innovation, two types of flexibilities have been identified. The first type creates a routine allowing to companies to take advantage of opportunities leading to increasing the input capacity. The second type avoids the existent routine with the aim of creating new opportunities leading to high innovation. The type of innovation requested and that of flexibility are determined by the stability of the organization change and its environment.

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Paper provided by University Library of Munich, Germany in its series MPRA Paper with number 7968.

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Keywords: innovation; flexibility; change; quality; strategy;

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M11 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting - - Business Administration - - - Production Management
D2 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations

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