Findings: Social Innovation, Architectural Innovation, and Cultural Innovation

Abstract

This chapter detail the research findings, which are analysed with particular attention on the perceived fit with the study's conceptual framework. Each chapter presents features of the participants’ learning, KM and innovation experiences in terms of innovation concepts. The relationship between the OL, KM, and innovation of the organisation emerges in a single framework. This chapter establishes social, architectural and cultural innovation and highlight the notion that new and improvised OL, KM, and innovation practices among members of a geographically dispersed team working in an educational organisation are consequences of these factors, characteristics and mechanisms. In this study, OL, KM, and innovation practices are perceived as collaborative learning, knowledge sharing mechanisms and activities for managing knowledge in a geographically dispersed environment which produces new solutions, novel ways to solve problems, processes to practice and adopt, and practical implementation of innovation in organisational practices.