Towards Leading Adaptable Colleges: A Description of the Potential for Experimentation in Three British Columbia Colleges

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dc.contributor.advisorKowch, Eugene G.
dc.contributor.authorDonaldson, Bradley William
dc.contributor.committeememberWinchester, Ian
dc.contributor.committeememberWoodrow, Robert E.
dc.contributor.committeememberClark, Douglas B.
dc.contributor.committeememberBishop, Pamela R.
dc.date2019-11
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-25T21:25:33Z
dc.date.available2019-07-25T21:25:33Z
dc.date.issued2019-07-24
dc.description.abstractIn this research, three British Columbia colleges were studied to understand how executive teams led innovation and enabled or failed to enable experimentation in an economic climate of decreasing funding. By creating a description of these teams, the author then concludes about the generative adaptive capacity of the colleges in the context of a challenging economic environment. Each college was described and interpreted as a separate case, and the researcher presents an integrated framework from an analysis of the findings and relevant literature on leading high capacity institutions. The most relevant literature for a study of this context was found to be complexity theory. Here, the author uses a new conceptual frame applied to describe and to interpret organizational culture and leadership approaches. The research found that none of the cases studied provide strong evidence of an executive team succeeding in creating adaptation through innovation via novel experimentation. As a consequence, the author developed a new conceptual model and presents implications to help guide executives to meet the challenges related to organization adaptability when they face change in the future.en_US
dc.identifier.citationDonaldson, B. W. (2019). Towards Leading Adaptable Colleges: A Description of the Potential for Experimentation in Three British Columbia Colleges (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/36774
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/110674
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisher.facultyWerklund School of Educationen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.en_US
dc.subjectadaptionen_US
dc.subjectcomplexityen_US
dc.subjectcollegeen_US
dc.subjectexperimentationen_US
dc.subjectleadershipen_US
dc.subjectinnovationen_US
dc.subject.classificationEducationen_US
dc.subject.classificationEducation--Administrationen_US
dc.subject.classificationEducation--Community Collegeen_US
dc.titleTowards Leading Adaptable Colleges: A Description of the Potential for Experimentation in Three British Columbia Collegesen_US
dc.typedoctoral thesisen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineEducation Graduate Program – Educational Researchen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgaryen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Education (EdD)en_US
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