Exploring the Role of IT in the Front-End of Innovation: An Empirical Study of IT-Enabled Creative Behavior
| Autor: | Dorit Nevo, Saggi Nevo, Alain Pinsonneault |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Knowledge management business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Information technology 02 engineering and technology Library and Information Sciences Creativity Management Information Systems Front and back ends Empirical research 020204 information systems Management of Technology and Innovation 0502 economics and business Creative behavior 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Key (cryptography) Sociology Set (psychology) business 050203 business & management Elaboration Information Systems media_common |
| Zdroj: | Information and Organization. 30:100322 |
| ISSN: | 1471-7727 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.infoandorg.2020.100322 |
| Popis: | The front-end of innovation (FEI) is critical for successful innovation in contemporary organizations. Employee creativity, or creative behavior, is at the heart of the FEI and it encompasses three activities: idea generation, idea elaboration, and idea championing. Information technology (IT) can play an important role in enabling these activities but extant research has focused primarily on IT-enabled idea generation. This paper complements the extant research by examining the entire set of activities that compose FEI. Specifically, we develop a model that examines IT-enabled idea generation, IT-enabled elaboration and IT-enabled championing, and that, grounded in the componential theory of creativity, analyzes their key drivers. An empirical study establishes the applicability of the model. The paper contributes to IS research and practice by shedding light on the tripartite role that organizational IT can play in employee creativity, and it serves as a springboard for future research. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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