Organizational+Innovation

=Organizational Innovation (N=4)=


 * Definition:** [Organizational innovation is the] introduction of changes which are new to the organization and are created by management.
 * Source:** http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?organizational innovation
 * Focus:** Cancer


 * Definition:** In a general sense, the term 'organizational innovation' refers to the creation or adoption of an idea or behaviour new to the organization (Daft 1978; Damanpour and Evan 1984; Damanpour 1996).
 * Source:** http://www.brunel.ac.uk/2146/brese/docs//Lam_WP1.PDF
 * Focus:** Business Management


 * Definition:** Innovation is the implementation of an internally generated or borrowed idea- whether pertaining to a product, device, system, process, policy, program or service- that was new to the organisation at the time of adoption.
 * Source:** Greenhalgh T, Robert G, Bate P, Macfarlane F, Kyriakidou O. Diffusion of innovations in health service organizations. Malden, Massachsetts: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2005.
 * Focus:** Health Care


 * Definition:** [Organizational innovation is] the development and implementation of new ideas by people who over time engage in transactions with others within an institutional order.
 * Source:** Greenhalgh T, Robert G, Bate P, Macfarlane F, Kyriakidou O. Diffusion of innovations in health service organizations. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2005.
 * Focus:** Health Care