Employee-driven innovation: A brave new world in the build environment’s project organisations
Year: 2013
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The build environment are often characterised by the fact that product and process knowledge are closely related to, and irregular driven by, individual employees. Therefore, a methodological approach to involve employees in development is seen as an advantageous way to be more innovative. Employee-driven innovation (EDI) could be such a methodology to implicate the spoken and tacit knowledge of the employees that would strengthen the innovative capabilities of the project organisations. To investigate the theoretical field around EDI a literature study was conducted. The overall objective was to develop a theoretical framework based on the field of EDI and related methodologies. This research resulted in two main findings. First; identification of the overall themes of the EDI field of research. Second; definition of an overall framework of methodologies to conduct EDI in project organisations. Furthermore this research aims to derive a framework that is transferable to other types of organisations.
Authors: Henrik Toft Sørensen, Søren Wandahl
Institutions: Aalborg University, Aarhus University
Language: English
Subfield: Strategy and Management
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1778862541