Session 04: New Company Startup or Joint Venture Case

Topics:

• The need for alternative ways of thinking about innovation and change.

• Four ways to explain change: life cycle, teleology, dialectics, & evolution.

• Methods for analyzing cases or problems.

• Discussion Question: what triggers change? How does it unfold?

Assignments:

• Recommended supplementary readings you can download from UofM Library:

  1. John Kotter, "Leading Change: Why transformation efforts fail"

  2. Delbeq & Van de Ven, “The Program Planning Model”

  3. Greiner, “Evolution and Revolution in Organizational Growth”

  4. Miner, “Seeking Adaptive Advantage: Evolutionary Theory & Managerial Action”

• Read:

• • Van de Ven & Sun, "Breakdowns in Implementing Models of Org. Changes," AMP, 2011.

• See information about entrepreneurship on Mgmt 6050 CourseLib

Class slides on the innovation journey by Van de Ven

Notes on new business startups by Van de Ven

Video Clips

• Introduction to Class Cases, by Spruth

• Innovation and Change Models, by Van de Ven

• Introduction to Class MVP, by Spruth