出版社：Institut de Recherche et d’Education pour les Coopératives et les Mutuelles de l’Université de Sherbrooke
摘要：This article deals with a case study conducted in a saving
and mutual credit cooperative to analyse the factors conducive to organizational
innovation. The research team members intentionally
selected a cooperative that experienced market growth, these past three
years, as a result of innovation or renewal of its organizational practices.
Team members analysed factors specific to certain dimensions designated
“a priori” (politico-administrative, communications, organizational
relations and decision making), as well as cross-over factors
touching on all dimensions and perhaps considered as more important
in regard to both the introduction and sustainment of a tendency to
innovate in the cooperative. Receptiveness to risk and new ideas, informal
communication, information sharing and the feeling of belonging
to the organization were revealed as important factors conducive to
innovation, much as the appropriation of work processes, continuing
education (on-going training) and the existence of a strategic vision
showed themselves to be cross-over factors conducive to innovation in
all dimensions under study.
