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It’S Mine, I Decide What To Change: The Role Of Psychological Ownership In Employees’ Process Innovation Behaviour

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  • MICHAEL LEYER

    (University of Rostock, Germany2Queensland University of Technology, Australia)

  • ANN-KATHRIN HIRZEL

    (University of Rostock, Germany)

  • JUERGEN MOORMANN

    (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Germany)

Abstract

Employees play a major role in enabling organizations to innovate their processes. While conditions for participation have to be established, barriers have to be lowered and trainings take place, the motives of employees to participate in incremental and discontinuous process innovation are not well understood. One important soft factor not addressed yet sufficiently is psychological ownership of non-managerial employees that can contribute to increase process innovation activities. We apply a multi-time survey design gathering quantitative data which is analysed with structured equation modelling. The findings suggest that psychological ownership is important in fostering innovation behaviour with incremental innovation behaviour being an important mediator for the effect on radical innovation behaviour. We show how psychological ownership is useful in fostering process innovation behaviour with data from the financial services sector. Organisations should invest in establishing psychological ownership on the level of operations to increase process innovation.

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  • Michael Leyer & Ann-Kathrin Hirzel & Juergen Moormann, 2021. "It’S Mine, I Decide What To Change: The Role Of Psychological Ownership In Employees’ Process Innovation Behaviour," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 25(01), pages 1-28, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijimxx:v:25:y:2021:i:01:n:s1363919621500134
    DOI: 10.1142/S1363919621500134
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    1. Firican Diana Andreea, 2022. "The Influence of Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions on Attitude Towards Change and Innovation in Oganizations," Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence, Sciendo, vol. 16(1), pages 509-518, August.

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