IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/treure/v16y2010i2p185-196.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Shop stewards as coordinators of employee-driven innovation: implications for trade unions

Author

Listed:
  • Robson Sø Rocha

    (International Centre for Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, rr.cbp@cbs.dk)

Abstract

Recently, there has been an increase in the attention paid to innovation. However, most of the attention seems to be devoted to innovation which takes place between organizations or between organizations and their customers. It is therefore useful to stand back a little and think about innovation within organizations: how does it take place, who are the actors involved, and how is it coordinated at different organizational levels. This article presents the results of qualitative research among seven Danish organizations, which have revolutionized their ways of organizing the production process. The article shows that shop stewards have become crucial organizational actors in coordinating employee-driven innovation (EDI) inside the firm by connecting different organizational and institutional levels. This has several implications for the European trade union movement.

Suggested Citation

  • Robson Sø Rocha, 2010. "Shop stewards as coordinators of employee-driven innovation: implications for trade unions," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 16(2), pages 185-196, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:treure:v:16:y:2010:i:2:p:185-196
    DOI: 10.1177/1024258910364306
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1024258910364306
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/1024258910364306?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Wen Wang & Jason Heyes & Roger Seifert, 2023. "Trade union influence on innovation in the British private sector: Direct and indirect paths," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 44(2), pages 604-627, May.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:treure:v:16:y:2010:i:2:p:185-196. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.