In this business era, innovation is the key for survival of the organization. Innovation management is a growing topic. Some authors highlight that to innovate is imperative (Tidd J., Bessant J., Pavitt K., 2005) while others stress this importance through the words: “It’s war: innovate or die” (Cooper R.G., 2005). The innovation can be defined differently, and there are various ways to create one. Lately, this is becoming more and more challenging task. The different organizational factors, motivators, processes, participants, innovation models that change over time influence on the final outcome. What is lately becoming interesting to see is from whom innovations come from. Innovators can be employees, customers, partners or suppliers, competitors or even the public. (Morgan J., 2014) The aim of this study is to investigate emergent innovation practices that originate from employees. These practices can be both formal and informal (or structured and unstructured). On the other side, the collective forms of leadership and its existence is the other topic that should be covered, connected to the emergent innovation practices. Multiple case studies will be analysed through two aspects. Firstly, emergent innovative practices such as employee driven innovation, internal contests, and internal crowdsourcing will be discovered and secondly, leadership in the different collectivistic forms and its influence on the innovative activity will be described. Both classical and emergent innovation process will be identified and explained in details, as well as multiple leaders, multiple behaviors and dynamics, as variables of collective leadership.
Nel panorama economico attuale l’innovazione è la chiave di sopravvivenza per molte organizzazioni, e la gestione dell’innovazione sta diventando un tema di grande rilevanza. Alcuni autori considerano l’innovazione come un imperativo (Tidd J., Bessant J., Pavitt K., 2005) altri hanno espresso la sua rilevanza attraverso l’affermazione: “è una guerra: innovare o morire” (Cooper R.G., 2005). L’innovazione può essere definita e generata in diversi modi. Diversi fattori possono avere un’influenza sul risultato finale dell’innovazione: fattori organizzativii, motivazionali, fattori legati al processo innovativo e ai suoi partecipanti. Un argomento che ha assunto ulteriore interesse negli ultimi anni riguarda le fonti dell’innovazione: dipendenti, clieti, partner e fornitori, competirors ed anche pubbliche amministrazioni possono essere possibili fonti di innovazione (Morgan J., 2014). L’obiettivo di questo studio è quello di investigare pratiche emergenti di innovazione, focalizzandosi in particolare sulle innovazioni generate dai dipendenti. Queste pratiche possono essere sia formali che informali, strutturate e destrutturate. Altro tema investigato in questa ricerca riguarda le forme collettive di leadership utilizzate per gestire tali pratiche emergenti. Per analizzare il legame tra forme di leadership e pratiche di innovazione sono stati condotti casi di studio multipli. Sono state analizzate iniziative d’innovazione che coinvolgessero I dipendenti ed è stata studiata la presenza di leadership collettiva in tali iniziative.
The interplay between collective leadership and emerging innovation practices : evidence from two case studies
DOKOVIC, MILICA
2016/2017
Abstract
In this business era, innovation is the key for survival of the organization. Innovation management is a growing topic. Some authors highlight that to innovate is imperative (Tidd J., Bessant J., Pavitt K., 2005) while others stress this importance through the words: “It’s war: innovate or die” (Cooper R.G., 2005). The innovation can be defined differently, and there are various ways to create one. Lately, this is becoming more and more challenging task. The different organizational factors, motivators, processes, participants, innovation models that change over time influence on the final outcome. What is lately becoming interesting to see is from whom innovations come from. Innovators can be employees, customers, partners or suppliers, competitors or even the public. (Morgan J., 2014) The aim of this study is to investigate emergent innovation practices that originate from employees. These practices can be both formal and informal (or structured and unstructured). On the other side, the collective forms of leadership and its existence is the other topic that should be covered, connected to the emergent innovation practices. Multiple case studies will be analysed through two aspects. Firstly, emergent innovative practices such as employee driven innovation, internal contests, and internal crowdsourcing will be discovered and secondly, leadership in the different collectivistic forms and its influence on the innovative activity will be described. Both classical and emergent innovation process will be identified and explained in details, as well as multiple leaders, multiple behaviors and dynamics, as variables of collective leadership.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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