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In Search of Best Practices for Employee-Driven Innovation: Experiences from Norwegian Work Life

In: Employee-Driven Innovation

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  • Tone Merethe Aasen
  • Oscar Amundsen
  • Leif Jarle Gressgård
  • Kåre Hansen

Abstract

In this chapter we identify and discuss important elements of Employee-Driven Innovation (EDI), and show how the interrelationship between professional role performance, cultural characteristics, and supportive means and tools is central in this respect. Drawing on data from 20 Norwegian enterprises known for their productive involvement of employees in innovation work, we discuss how leaders, employees and union representatives can carry out their work and use various means and tools to encourage the development of cultural characteristics essential for successful EDI practices. Our study indicates that EDI is mainly about how managers and employees see and perform their roles, and less about formal structures. There are several organizational efforts that can be made to support the development of a culture for joint innovation effort, but improved innovation capacity through the implementation of EDI practices requires the successful inter-play between all three dimensions (roles, culture and tools).

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  • Tone Merethe Aasen & Oscar Amundsen & Leif Jarle Gressgård & Kåre Hansen, 2012. "In Search of Best Practices for Employee-Driven Innovation: Experiences from Norwegian Work Life," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Steen Høyrup & Maria Bonnafous-Boucher & Cathrine Hasse & Maja Lotz & Kirsten Møller (ed.), Employee-Driven Innovation, chapter 3, pages 57-74, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-01476-4_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137014764_3
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    1. Chukwuemeka Echebiri & Stein Amundsen & Marit Engen, 2020. "Linking Structural Empowerment to Employee-Driven Innovation: The Mediating Role of Psychological Empowerment," Administrative Sciences, MDPI, vol. 10(3), pages 1-19, July.
    2. Opland, Leif Erik & Pappas, Ilias O. & Engesmo, Jostein & Jaccheri, Letizia, 2022. "Employee-driven digital innovation: A systematic review and a research agenda," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 143(C), pages 255-271.

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