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Innovation Mindsets – A Framework to Understand Employees' Motivation to Act on Opportunities for Innovation
Publikationstyp
Book Part
Date Issued
2023
Sprache
English
Citation
in: Making Employee-Driven Innovation Achievable; Routledge (2023)
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Opportunities for innovation are ubiquitous, and organisations are constantly challenged to adjust their innovation practices. In this context, innovation opportunities can be defined as possibilities to realise economic or social value through a new combination of technologies and human needs, emerging from changes in the technological knowledge base or customer preferences. However, it is important to keep in mind that organisations as such do not identify opportunities. Rather, their members; hence, employees do. Yet, why do certain employees perceive situations as opportunities rather than threats, which determines their innovative behaviour? In other words, what determines employees’ innovation-related mindsets?
Previous research suggests that innovation can be understood as an outcome, a process or a mindset. This study builds on the before-mentioned typology of innovation and draws on theories from social psychology to provide a more nuanced understanding of the mindset-based perspective on innovation. In this chapter, we present our model for the specific context of frugal innovation and derive a framework to understand innovative behaviour in other contexts, such as employee-driven innovation. Hence, our approach provides a promising framework for practitioners to empower managers and employees to engage in innovative behaviour.
Previous research suggests that innovation can be understood as an outcome, a process or a mindset. This study builds on the before-mentioned typology of innovation and draws on theories from social psychology to provide a more nuanced understanding of the mindset-based perspective on innovation. In this chapter, we present our model for the specific context of frugal innovation and derive a framework to understand innovative behaviour in other contexts, such as employee-driven innovation. Hence, our approach provides a promising framework for practitioners to empower managers and employees to engage in innovative behaviour.