Employee-Driven Innovation: A New Approach

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Employee-Driven Innovation: A New Phenomenon, Concept and Mode of Innovation....Pages 3-33
Employee-Driven Innovation: Operating in a Chiaroscuro....Pages 34-56
In Search of Best Practices for Employee-Driven Innovation: Experiences from Norwegian Work Life....Pages 57-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Creating Work: Employee-Driven Innovation through Work Practice Reconstruction....Pages 77-91
Explaining Innovation at Work: A Socio-Personal Account....Pages 92-107
Innovation Competency — An Essential Organizational Asset....Pages 108-126
Employee-Driven Innovation and Practice-Based Learning in Organizational Cultures....Pages 127-148
Employee-Driven Innovation Amongst ‘Routine’ Employees in the UK: The Role of Organizational ‘Strategies’ and Individual ‘Tactics’....Pages 149-164
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Moving Organizations towards Employee-Driven Innovation (EDI) in Work Practices and on a Global Scale: Possibilities and Challenges....Pages 167-184
Exploring the Employee-Driven Innovation Concept by Comparing ‘Innovation Capability Management’ Among German and Chinese Firms....Pages 185-210
Privileged Yet Restricted? Employee-Driven Innovation and Learning in Three R&D Communities....Pages 211-229
Employee-Driven Innovation and Industrial Relations....Pages 230-245
Back Matter....Pages 247-251