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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">jssi</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Journal of Security and Sustainability Issues</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">2029-7017</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2029-7017</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>LKA</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">JSSI525</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.9770/jssi.2015.5.2(4)</article-id>
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        <article-title>Sustainable Development and Behavioural Patterns: to Innovations through Coaching</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Rosha</surname>
            <given-names>Angelina</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:a.rosha@inbox.lv">a.rosha@inbox.lv</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_jssi_aff_000"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_jssi_aff_000">Faculty of Engineering Economics and Management, Riga Technical University, 6 Kalnciema Str., Riga, LV-1007, Latvia</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Lace</surname>
            <given-names>Natalja</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:natalja.lace@rtu.lv">natalja.lace@rtu.lv</email>
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        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_jssi_aff_001">Faculty of Engineering Economics and Management, Riga Technical University, 6 Kalnciema Str., Riga, LV-1007, Latvia</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <volume>5</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>171</fpage>
      <lpage>180</lpage>
      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <day>30</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2015</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>30</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2015</year>
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        <p>The paper aims to study how coaching can accelerate the innovation processes in organization considering the peculiar issues of the use of coaching in Latvia and Lithuania. For this purpose, literature review and a qualitative dominated mixed method approach to obtain and analyze the data are implemented. A literature review was undertaken to find out the current trends in the theory and practice of coaching in the context of innovation and organizational change. The findings of the literature review are compared with the results of two surveys. The aim of the first survey is to explore the experts’ opinion about the manifestation of coaching in organization. The aim of the second survey is to find out the importance of conditions to promote coaching in organisational context. The results of literature review and surveys demonstrate that coaching can accelerate the leadership development, strategic thinking and collaboration within and across teams. These processes are crucial for organization’s innovation capabilities.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>innovation</kwd>
        <kwd>coaching</kwd>
        <kwd>facilitating practice</kwd>
        <kwd>organizational change</kwd>
        <kwd>leadership development</kwd>
        <kwd>strategic thinking</kwd>
        <kwd>teams collaboration</kwd>
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        <label>JEL</label>
        <kwd>O15</kwd>
        <kwd>O30</kwd>
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