Employee-Driven Innovation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. The Nature of Employee-Driven Innovation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Employee-Driven Innovation: A New Phenomenon, Concept and Mode of Innovation

      • Steen Høyrup

      Pages 3-33

   3. Employee-Driven Innovation: Operating in a Chiaroscuro

      • Ann-Charlotte Teglborg, Renaud Redien-Collot, Maria Bonnafous-Boucher, Céline Viala

      Pages 34-56

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

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

      Pages 57-74

3. Employee-Driven Innovation in the Workplace Mediated through Employees’ Learning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Creating Work: Employee-Driven Innovation through Work Practice Reconstruction

      • Oriana Milani Price, David Boud, Hermine Scheeres

      Pages 77-91

   3. Explaining Innovation at Work: A Socio-Personal Account

      • Stephen Billett

      Pages 92-107

   4. Innovation Competency — An Essential Organizational Asset

      • Lotte Darsø

      Pages 108-126

   5. Employee-Driven Innovation and Practice-Based Learning in Organizational Cultures

      • Ulrik Brandi, Cathrine Hasse

      Pages 127-148

   6. Employee-Driven Innovation Amongst ‘Routine’ Employees in the UK: The Role of Organizational ‘Strategies’ and Individual ‘Tactics’

      • Edmund Waite, Karen Evans, Natasha Kersh

      Pages 149-164

4. Employee-Driven Innovation Unfolded in Global Networks and Complex Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165

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   2. Moving Organizations towards Employee-Driven Innovation (EDI) in Work Practices and on a Global Scale: Possibilities and Challenges

      • Maja Lotz, Peer Hull Kristensen

      Pages 167-184

   3. Exploring the Employee-Driven Innovation Concept by Comparing ‘Innovation Capability Management’ Among German and Chinese Firms

      • Werner Fees, Amir H. Taherizadeh

      Pages 185-210

   4. Privileged Yet Restricted? Employee-Driven Innovation and Learning in Three R&D Communities

      • Tea Lempiälä, Sari Yli-Kanhalnorna

      Pages 211-229

   5. Employee-Driven Innovation and Industrial Relations

      • Stan De Spiegelaere, Guy Van Gyes

      Pages 230-245

5. Back Matter

   Pages 247-251

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Presents research in Employee-Driven Innovation, an emergent field of study that meets the demand for exploiting new innovative potentials in organizations. There is a growing interest in creating new knowledge in innovation, emphasizing human resources and social processes. The authors intend to take the global lead in research on these areas.

• human resources
• innovation
• management
• organization
• organizations
• Personal

• Aarhus University, Denmark

  Steen Høyrup, Cathrine Hasse, Kirsten Møller

• Novancia, Paris, France

  Maria Bonnafous-Boucher

• Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

  Maja Lotz

STEEN HØYRUP is Associate Professor in Education and Director of the research programme 'Organisation and Learning' at the Department of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark. He is engaged in the management of the EDI-network: The European network of Employee-Driven Innovation and Workplace Learning.

MARIA BONNAFOUS-BOUCHER is Professor and Dean of Research at Novancia, Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry Business School, France.

CATHRINE HASSE is Professor at the Department of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark.

MAJA LOTZ is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

KIRSTEN MØLLER is Project Manager at the Department of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark.

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