Best paper award winners for 2014 by World Scientific Press: Dr Bernd Platzek (previous PhD student at GSTM, UP), Prof Leon Pretorius (GSTM) and Dr Dietmar Winzker (GSTM)

Posted on June 01, 2016

Dr Bernd Platzek (previous PhD student at GSTM, UP), Prof Leon Pretorius (GSTM) and Dr Dietmar Winzker (GSTM) has recently been selected as the best paper award winners for 2014 by World Scientific Press for their paper titled: “The Vital Entrepreneurial Learning Organization: A Corporate Mindset for Entrepreneurial Change Management” published in the International Journal for Innovation and Technology Management (IJITM). The paper presents a concept of a vital entrepreneurial learning organization that describes a systematic theoretical framework for firm-level entrepreneurship in dynamic environments. The theoretical constructs developed on theoretical exploration are: nine design elements of holistic intrapreneurship, three entrepreneurial tasks and process model, role model for the entrepreneurial organization, conceptual framework of the business environment, qualitative systems model for entrepreneurial change management, and five organizational learning elements.

The best paper award process was conducted by Professors Kumar and Passiante as associate editors of IJITM. (01/06/2016).

- Author Prof Leon Pretorius

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