Democratizing innovation processes: personal initiative in bottom-up eco-innovation
| Autor: | Josefine Weigt-Rohrbeck, Mai Skjøtt Linneberg |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Knowledge management
ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION business.industry 05 social sciences Perspective (graphical) Resource constraints Employee-driven innovation Personal initiative Top-down and bottom-up design Proactivity Proactive behaviour Eco-innovation Work (electrical) Management of Technology and Innovation Manufacturing Qualitative case study 0502 economics and business Agency (sociology) Bottom-up innovation 050211 marketing Business 050203 business & management |
| Zdroj: | Weigt-Rohrbeck, J & Linneberg, M S 2019, ' Democratizing innovation processes : personal initiative in bottom-up eco-innovation ', European Journal of Innovation Management, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 821-844 . https://doi.org/10.1108/EJIM-12-2018-0278 |
| ISSN: | 1460-1060 |
| DOI: | 10.1108/ejim-12-2018-0278 |
| Popis: | PurposePrevious work on employee-driven innovation (EDI) has demonstrated the benefits of employees’ proactive behavior in achieving success with innovations. The purpose of this paper is to employ the concept of personal initiative to investigate the underestimated role of employees’ agency in complex processes of innovation, showing the impact of personal initiative on employees’ innovation success.Design/methodology/approachBased on two embedded cases of environmental bottom-up innovation at a large manufacturing company, this study examines employees’ behavior in generating, championing and realizing such initiatives.FindingsThis paper provides insights into how employees succeeded, through taking initiative in generating, championing and realizing environmental initiatives despite facing high complexity, and resource constraints. Without being prompted from the top down, employees started these initiatives themselves and showed phase-specific behavior in overcoming the various challenges. Thus, self-starting behavior was found dominant in generating ideas, whereas proactive and persistent forms of behavior were found to be prevalent in championing and rolling out the initiatives.Originality/valueCurrent understandings of EDI highlight the importance of developing employees’ potential capabilities and organizational-level guidance. Using an active performance perspective, this study emphasizes the importance of employees’ agency in ensuring EDI success, even when conditions are not conducive to their doing so. |
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