INNOVATION IN MANAGING EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
Lykopoulou Zacharoula
Abstract
Instead of a common cultural perspective, university culture is experienced at three distinct levels: the enterprise, the profession and the cognate area. Each of them exerts a powerful influence on the ideology or systems of beliefs that characterize academics and academic institutions. Thus, many different dimensions should be assessed in order to indicate which of them can affect universities performance and decision-making regarding innovation. This paper concerns higher education in Greece, as applied today and in the forthcoming years and its aim is ternary; firstly, the study on the implementation of international innovation indicators in education, secondly the use of innovative teaching practices and finally the relationship between different organizations and its impact on innovative educational practices. The primary research contacted with the use of a questionnaire on a sample of 471 teachers all over Greece. The findings among others show that the higher the level of innovation regarding educational services, the higher also is the level of innovation on educational processes.
Keywords:
educational innovation, organizational culture, educational services
JEL Codes: I20, M10
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To cite this article: ZACHAROULA, L., (2020). Innovation in managing educational services. Entrepreneurship, 8 (2), 71-85, DOI: 10.37708/ep.swu.v8i2.7
