Organization and Newness: Discourses and Ecologies of Innovation in the Creative University offers a view from a perspective of organizational education on the ‘new’, which analyzes the production of the ‘new’ within organizations, in relation to the inherent learning processes. Fundamental for this perspective is the question about the changeability of organizations, especially when these are not viewed only as instrumentally established regulatory structures but rather as social constructs. The contributions of this volume contour the complexity of newness in organization and form a bridge from critical analysis of imperative discourse of newness, to programmatic pleas of an organizational pedagogy, which is normative in nature, for a reconfiguration of organizational and societal relationships. The issue at hand shows how tightly the question about newness is constitutively woven into the self-conception of organizational education and pedagogy.

Table of Contents:
Preface: Competing Conceptions of the Creative University  Michael A. Peters Introduction: Organisation and Newness  Susanne Maria Weber, Michael A. Peters and Richard Heraud Notes on Contributors Section One 1. Intentional Organizational Change and the “New”: An Organizational Ethics Perspective of Change Management  Thomas Krobath 2. Between Organization and the New: How Lists Are Used to Create (or Reduce) Innovation  Fabian Brückner 3. How Do the New Outcome-Oriented Instruments Arise in the Faculty? A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis  Karl-Heinz Gerholz 4. Innovation and Political Subjectivity: A Problem for the Actor in Education  Richard Heraud 5. Organizational Dynamics within the Knowledge Economy  George Lăzăroiu 6. Researching Organizational Entry from a Perspective of Newcomer Innovation  Line Revsbæk 7. PISA as a Generator of Innovation  Miriam Sitter 8. Searching for the Change Agent: Steps towards an Ecology of Innovation  Soren Willert 9. Futuring Higher Education? The Innovativeness of Reforms: Turkey – A Critical Case Study  Mete Kurtoğlu 10. Money Rules Knowledge: The Emergence of Creative and Social Imperatives in the Epistemic Field  Agnieszka Czejkowska Section Two 11. Managerialism and the Neoliberal University: Prospects for New Forms of ‘Open Management’ in Higher Education  Michael A. Peters 12. Artistic Interventions in Organizations as Intercultural Relational Spaces for Identity Development  Ariane Berthoin Antal and Gervaise Debucquet 13. Working at the Edge of Innovation: Artists in Labs  Angela Krewani 14. Social Innovation and Social Intrapreneurship in German Welfare Organisations  Andreas Schröer 15. “Organizing a New Political Culture”: Women Writers and Shifts in Meanings, Power Relations and Social Web of Society  Ramona Mihăilă 16. In the Wake of the Quake: Teaching the Emergency  Sean Sturm and Stephen Turner 17. The Assertion and Development of ‘The New’ in the Context of Emancipatory New Social Movements  Meike Sophia Baader and Susanne Maurer 18. Change by Design!? Knowledge Cultures of Design and Organizational Strategies of Creation  Susanne Maria Weber 19. Newness Against the Grain: Democratic Emergence in Organizational and Professional Practice  Philip A. Woods, Amanda Roberts and Glenys Woods 20. Pedagogy and Organizational Learning: Theoretical Reflections on Synergetic as a Meta-Model for Designing Learning-Processes in Organizations  Peter C. Weber 21. Epilogue: Organizational Change, Newness and the Discourse of Innovation  Susanne Maria Weber, Michael A. Peters, Richard Heraud and Annett Adler