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- Asplund, Fredrik, 1977-, et al.
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Knowing too much? : On bias due to domain-specific knowledge in internal crowdsourcing for explorative ideas
- 2021
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Ingår i: R&D Management. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0033-6807 .- 1467-9310.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Internal crowdsourcing utilizes a firm’s employees, of which many have a strong understanding of the domains in which the firm operates, for contributing with, developing and evaluating ideas. On the one hand, these employees can use their domain-specific knowledge to identify the value of what may seem a far-fetched solution to the average employee. On the other hand, previous research has shown that employees typically evaluate ideas in their domains less favorably if they do not align with ongoing exploitation activities. Hence, this study focuses on whether a higher degree of relevant domain-specific knowledge makes employees participating in internal crowdsourcing prefer exploitative solutions when evaluating ideas. An empirical study of an online platform for firm-internal innovation in a multinational engineering company showed that employees who only infrequently participated in internal crowdsourcing mostly contributed to and evaluated ideas within their own domain. Employees who frequently participated also contributed to and evaluated ideas outside their own domains. By statistically analyzing group differences during idea evaluation, we show that employees participating infrequently favor exploitable solutions, whereas employees participating frequently are more uncertain. The former difference is only seen concerning ideas that require domain-specific knowledge to understand, but the latter is observed for all types of ideas. This study makes three substantial contributions. First, employees with domain-specific knowledge, through their preference for exploitative solutions, bias the outcome of internal crowdsourcing when idea evaluation requires domain-specific knowledge. Second, this bias is aggravated by the overall higher level of uncertainty displayed by employees participating frequently in internal crowdsourcing and thereby tend to reach out to other domains. Third, in order to mitigate this, bias management can build engagement in internal crowdsourcing through idea challenges that do not require domain-specific knowledge and consider avoiding employees with a strongly associated domain knowledge for idea evaluation.
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- Asplund, Fredrik, 1977-, et al.
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The genesis of public-private innovation ecosystems : Bias and challenges
- 2021
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Ingår i: Technological forecasting & social change. - : Elsevier. - 0040-1625 .- 1873-5509. ; 162
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The emergence of technology increasingly depends on innovation ecosystems and frequently involves actors from both industry and academia. However, value creation may experience challenges due to bias formed during public-private innovation ecosystem genesis.This empirical study of bias in a new pan-European public-private initiative provides results regarding innovation ecosystems and the individuals typically active during their genesis: value creation is biased towards the selection of incumbent firms and complement challenges, and participation is biased towards engineers with knowledge of exploitation from multiple domains and researchers with knowledge of exploitation from single domains.This suggests that the implications of the loose coupling emphasised by the innovation ecosystems discourse and the knowledge of the different contexts in which firms capture value are more complex than previously acknowledged. The practical implications are that the ability of public innovation ecosystem leadership to act early on novel technology might be offset by the inability of involved firms to commit to bringing the technology to market and that individuals typically active during public-private innovation ecosystems genesis are not ideal for handling this challenge. In fact, increasingly connected public leadership could smother the innovation ecosystem unless well-connected and multidisciplinary researchers are brought in as brokers.
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- Björk, Jennie, Docent, 1982-, et al.
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Editorial
- 2019
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Ingår i: Creativity and Innovation Management. - : WILEY. - 0963-1690 .- 1467-8691. ; 28:3, s. 289-290
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- Björk, Jennie, Docent, 1982-
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Knowledge Domain Spanners in Ideation
- 2012
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Ingår i: Creativity and Innovation Management. - : Wiley. - 0963-1690 .- 1467-8691. ; 21:1, s. 17-27
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Ideation is increasingly receiving attention as a management issue, and we can at present witness the emergence and diffusion of a range of different proactive approaches towards ideation. This development is hardly surprising in the light of the changed nature of innovation activities, including a higher reliance also on external sources for innovation and more focus on non-technological types of innovation, such as business model innovations. Firms need to handle both a larger number of sources for innovation and more different types of innovations. This article investigates how spanning different knowledge domains influences individuals' ideation performance. A study has been performed using data on all ideas created within an organization during three years. From this data, two broad set of knowledge domains are identified and the influence on ideation of the individuals spanning these domains the knowledge domain spanners in ideation are investigated. The empirical results show that knowledge domain spanners in ideation have higher ideation performance than individuals engaged in only one knowledge domain.
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- Björk, Jennie, Docent, 1982-, et al.
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Measuring Innovation Effectively-Nine Critical Lessons : Companies looking to improve how they measure innovation can use nine critical lessons organized according to the themes of strategy, organization, and measurement design.
- 2023
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Ingår i: Research technology management. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0895-6308 .- 1930-0166. ; 66:2, s. 17-27
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Overview: Few companies and organizations remain innovative for long periods of time, and despite high ambitions, many innovation initiatives fail to yield the desired results. Identifying how best to measure the effectiveness of innovation initiatives is key to ensuring that those efforts actually help an organization achieve its overall goals. This article offers organizations and their leaders practical advice for measuring innovation effectively. Specifically, it defines innovation measurement and its importance in precise terms and summarizes six years of our research on innovation measurement in multiple firms and industries. We articulate nine critical lessons for improving innovation measurement in real-world practice clustered into three overarching themes: Strategy, Organization, and Measurement Design. Each of the nine lessons elucidates a problem, identifies potential consequences, and proposes concrete solutions that organizations can implement as they strive to better measure and, ultimately, improve their innovation management initiatives.
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- Björk, Jennie, Docent, 1982-, et al.
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What will we learn from the current crisis?
- 2021
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Ingår i: Creativity and Innovation Management. - : Wiley. - 0963-1690 .- 1467-8691. ; 30:2, s. 231-232
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- Boer, Harry, et al.
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Reviewing excellence
- 2023
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Ingår i: Creativity and Innovation Management. - : Wiley. - 0963-1690 .- 1467-8691. ; 32:2, s. 180-197
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Creativity and Innovation Management has grown substantially over the last couple of years, both quantitatively and qualitatively. From 2016 to 2021, the number of submissions has grown from 287 to 395. Most of the growth was realized in Asia: The number of submissions from that continent increased from 72 in 2016 to 193 in 2021. The rest of the world remained (close to) stable: 215 in 2016 and 203 in 2021. Equally important, the Thomson ISI Impact Factor increased from 1.423 in 2015 to 3.051 in 2021 and further to 3.644 in 2022. This is not where our ambitions end, though. We want to be the ever-better outlet for authors researching, and practitioners working in, the fields we cover. Editing a journal with the ambition to continuously increase its quality while dealing with a substantial growth requires teamwork—teamwork among the editors and the editorial office, teamwork between the editors and their reviewers and, as surprising as this may sound, teamwork between the authors and their reviewers in a top-quality reviewing process. The purpose of this piece is to present and discuss some reviewing standards. In particular, we aim to share with our reviewers what we think is an excellent reviewing process. Furthermore, we formulate our ideas about what it is that makes a review an excellent one. The title of this piece is deliberately ambiguous. It denotes that Creativity and Innovation Management strives for reviewing excellence—as in an excellent reviewing process. It also denotes that we reach for the stars and hope to one day receive and, hence, review only excellent submissions.
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- Di Vincenzo, Faustino, et al.
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Attention to ideas! Exploring idea survival in internal crowdsourcing
- 2020
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Ingår i: European Journal of Innovation Management. - : Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.. - 1460-1060 .- 1758-7115.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: This paper analyzes how the distribution and structure of employees' attention influence idea survival in an organizational internal crowdsourcing session. Design/methodology/approach: Data from an online internal crowdsourcing session carried out within a multinational company with headquarters in Sweden were used to explore how idea attention influenced idea survival. Findings: Our findings indicate that the positive relationship between attention allocation and idea survival is mediated by idea appreciation, i.e. positive comments and suggestions that employees provide in response to ideas. In addition, we find that competition for attention negatively moderates the relationship between idea attention and positive comments. Finally, our results indicate that ideas are more likely to survive if they are submitted earlier in the crowdsourcing process and when the elapsed time since previously posted ideas in the session is longer. Practical implications: This study provides organizers of internal crowdsourcing sessions with new insights about factors influencing idea survival and about potential systematic biases in idea selection due to timing and competition between ideas. Originality/value: This paper contributes to the literature highlighting the relevance of attention-based theory in the context of crowd-based creativity and innovation management.
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- Frishammar, Johan, et al.
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Opportunities and challenges in the new innovation landscape : Implications for innovation auditing and innovation management
- 2019
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Ingår i: European Management Journal. - : Elsevier BV. - 0263-2373 .- 1873-5681. ; 37:2, s. 151-164
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Innovation auditing is a well-established practice used by managers to identify strengths and weaknesses in innovation. Existing audit frameworks fall short, however, because they neglect three major trends that currently transform the innovation landscape. These trends are as follows: 1) a shift from closed to more open models of innovation ("openness"), 2) a shift from providing physical products to industrial product services ("servitization"), and 3) a shift from an analog to a highly digitalized world ("digitalization"). This article identifies new innovation practices, opportunities, and challenges that arise for manufacturing firms along these trends. The article proposes a revised innovation audit framework, which acknowledges these trends and supports innovation management in increasingly dynamic and competitive environments. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- Holzle, Katharina, et al.
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Light at the end of the tunnel
- 2021
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Ingår i: Creativity and Innovation Management. - : Wiley. - 0963-1690 .- 1467-8691. ; 30:1, s. 3-5
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- Johansson, Sara, et al.
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Digital production innovation projects – The applicability of managerial controls under high levels of complexity and uncertainty
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management. - : Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.. - 1741-038X .- 1758-7786.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: The purpose of the present study is to assist academics and practitioners in supporting and managing digital production innovation projects using managerial controls. The focus is on projects that deliver innovations containing new combinations of physical, digital and/or cyber-physical components, developed to be used within a production system. More specifically, this paper aims to explore the applicability of different managerial controls for managing and supporting digital production innovation projects, i.e. projects that are characterized by high levels of complexity and uncertainty. Design/methodology/approach: This is a multiple-case study in which interview data was collected from five digital production innovation projects in two manufacturing firms. The empirical data was used to analyze success factors, challenges and obstacles in different phases of the studied projects, and to connect these to the application of different types of managerial controls. Findings: The findings provide an increased understanding of who to control, what to control and how to control in digital production innovation projects. Research limitations/implications: This paper is focused specifically on the perception of managerial controls in digital production innovation projects and has not explicitly focused on manufacturing companies' intended usage of managerial controls. This paper's focus on manufacturing companies with producing customers and on projects developing solutions for their respective customers' production systems also encourages further studies at other companies undergoing a comparable transition. Given the necessary system perspective on managerial controls that is being highlighted, this paper emphasizes further research needs on how firms can also apply managerial controls to support external collaborations. Practical implications: The results have a number of managerial implications regarding digital production innovation projects. The most prominent findings revealed the importance of giving attention to the managerial controls related to the decision-making process and the involvement from stakeholders outside the organization itself. In particular, it was shown that managerial controls securing a more holistic involvement in the decision-making process should be applied, and that managerial controls suitable for customers and partners need to be developed. Originality/value: The study is among the first studies to focus on the application and perceived effectiveness of managerial controls in digital production innovation projects. The ways in which managerial controls are applied to collaborations with customers and partners and the ways in which action, cultural and personnel controls are combined and aligned to support the corporate decision-making process particularly stand out as essential for manufacturing companies' Industry 4.0 transition.
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- Nilsson, Susanne, 1966-, et al.
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Developing radical innovations : Introducing Tangibility, Tolerance and Tightness
- 2018
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper investigates what actions can be taken in order to support the developmentof radical innovations. The contribution adds to our understanding of how radicalinnovation projects develops over time and what and how managerial actions can betaken in order to support this development. Six radical innovation projects from twodifferent empirical settings have been investigated though semi-structured interviewsand the use of a project journey mapping technique allowing for a combination of bothnarrative and critical incident data collection. The data was analyzed in Nvivo. Theresults revealed three different flows of activities for radical innovation projects thatiteratively and interactively took place over time from the emergence of the idea tocommercialization, namely: (1) the configuration of the product system, (2) theunderstanding of customer value and (3) the experimentation of understanding of howto monetizing value form radical innovation projects. Three mechanisms in order tomanage these flows are presented: (1) making the radical innovation and its potentialmore tangible, (2) creating a tolerance for the uncertainties and ambiguities related tothe innovation during its development in the organization and (3) handling themanagement control tightness of the project in order for it to make it to thecommercialization. Two main practical implications of the results are discussed. Firstof all, organizations that aim to develop radical innovations need to understand andsupport the three different flows of activities early on and what it implies in terms ofcompetences needed and resources allocated. Second, the presented mechanismsprovide distinct examples of actions that can be taken in order to support thedevelopment flows of radical innovations.
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- Qian, Chen, 1990-, et al.
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Collective firm-internal online idea development Exploring the impact of feedback timeliness and knowledge overlap
- 2019
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Ingår i: European Journal of Innovation Management. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 1460-1060 .- 1758-7115. ; 23:1, s. 13-39
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose New opportunities to nurture good ideas for innovation arise as firms use web-based ideation platforms for collective idea generation and development. What influences creative performance in firm-internal collective idea development is however not as well researched as idea generation and thus an important area of research is the feedback and commenting on ideas. More specifically, the purpose of this paper is to explore the role of feedback timeliness and knowledge overlap between feedback providers and ideas in collective firm-internal online idea development. Design/methodology/approach An empirical study has been performed, drawing on data collected from a Swedish multi-national company using a web-based system for collective firm-internal ideation. The investigation explicitly captures the effects on ideation performance played by idea development contributions, in terms of feedback timeliness and knowledge overlap between feedback providers and ideas. Findings The empirical results show that idea development is significantly influenced by feedback timeliness as well as by the knowledge overlap between feedback providers and ideas. Specifically, it is found that longer time to feedback and an increased knowledge overlap result in an increased likelihood of idea acceptance. However, beyond a certain point, the positive effects of a longer time to feedback and increased knowledge overlap decrease, resulting in curvilinear relationships with idea acceptance. Originality/value The results from the empirical study reveal the effects of feedback timeliness and knowledge overlap on idea development. This provides us with new insights on the complex dynamics at place in collective firm-internal idea development and offers implications for how we can fruitfully manage this process.
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- Qian, Chen, 1990-, et al.
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Exploring the Effects of Feedback Sentiment and Expertise in Internal Crowdsourcing for Ideas
- 2017
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Ingår i: Academy of Management Proceedings.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- With the increased usage of internal crowdsourcing for ideas, many firms are able to receive feedback from the voluntary collective wisdom with diverse expertise instead of a limited amount of specified experts, resulting in a large amount, diverse and complex input to ideas. Given the so far limited knowledge about it, firms face challenges to fruitfully manage feedback to ideas. Two aspects playing critical roles in the feedback on proposed ideas for innovation are arguably feedback sentiment and its source expertise. This paper aims to explore the roles of feedback sentiment and expertise in internal crowdsourcing for ideas. It does so through an empirical study drawing on data collected from a Swedish multi-national company using internal crowdsourcing for innovation ideas. The investigation explicitly captures the effects of feedback sentiment and source expertise in terms of: 1) positive and negative feedback sentiment; and 2) feedback sentiment in conjunction with expertise of feedback source. The effects of these two dimensions are investigated by performing a logistic regression analysis. Regression results reveal that both feedback sentiment and expertise are potentially impacting ideas in internal crowdsourcing and expertise is a moderator. More specifically, it is found that negative feedback outperforms positive feedback in an overall view, but also that the effects of feedback sentiment are influenced by the expertise of the feedback provider. As one of the first studies to explore the feedback sentiment in conjunction with expertise, this study does not only extend previous knowledge about feedback mechanisms, but also provides practical implications to manage contributors as well as their contributions to internal crowdsourcing of ideas.
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- Qian, Chen, 1990-, et al.
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How do ideas gain legitimacy in internal crowdsourcing idea development? : Exploring the effects of feedback on idea selection
- 2023
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Ingår i: Innovation. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1447-9338 .- 2204-0226. ; , s. 1-32
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Internal crowdsourcing offers new opportunities for ideas to gain legitimacy in idea development as not only managers but also experts are able to provide feedback to improve and subsequently accept ideas for further realisation. Given this far limited knowledge about how ideas gain legitimacy in idea development, this paper focuses on the influence of feedback, a main source of idea legitimacy in internal crowdsourcing. More specifically, this study aims to explore how feedback from different feedback providers (i.e., managers and experts) influences idea selection in internal crowdsourcing idea development. Based on text mining methods including sentiment, topic-model, and expert identification analyses, results reveal that feedback sentiment, feedback diversity and feedback amount play key roles in idea legitimisation. Specifically, these aspects of feedback influence idea acceptance in idea selection through the mediating role of idea revision in idea development and that this relationship is moderated by feedback providers. This study extends previous knowledge about the legitimisation process from the perspective of feedback in idea development by offering both a more comprehensive view, including different feedback aspects, and a more granular measurement of these, through the use of text analysis. Based on insights from the study, practical implications are presented for how to gain legitimacy from feedback for idea selection in internal crowdsourcing.
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- Qian, Chen, 1990-, et al.
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Selection bias of ideas for sustainability-oriented innovation in internal crowdsourcing
- 2023
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Ingår i: Technovation. - : Elsevier BV. - 0166-4972 .- 1879-2383. ; 124, s. 102761-102761
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Decision biases reinforce firms’ tendency to develop innovations based on narrow economic motivations. Consequently, sustainability-oriented ideas explicitly targeting social and environmental issues are easily discarded in idea selection when trade-offs between economic and sustainability values are faced. Given the so far limited knowledge about how sustainability-oriented ideas are developed and selected in organizations today, this research aims to explore how managerial biases affect selection of sustainability-oriented ideas in internal crowdsourcing. It does so through an empirical study drawing on data collected from a Swedish multinational company using internal crowdsourcing for different types of innovation ideas. The empirical study explicitly identifies sustainability-oriented ideas based on machine learning and captures managerial biases for ideas based on sentiment analysis. Regression analyses reveal that managerial biases potentially affect the selection of sustainability-oriented ideas through the mediating role of managerial attention in idea development. Furthermore, this mediating relationship is moderated by search pattern in terms of directed search. The study contributes to the literature on both innovation and sustainability, shedding new light on the effects of managerial bias, managerial attention, and innovation search for decision making and provides managerial implications enabling a fruitful adoption of sustainability-oriented innovation ideas.
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- Rose, Robert, et al.
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More than a quarter century of Creativity and Innovation Management : The journal's characteristics, evolution, and a look ahead
- 2020
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Ingår i: Creativity and Innovation Management. - : Life Science Publishing Co. Ltd. - 0963-1690 .- 1467-8691.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- When this journal was founded in 1992 by Tudor Rickards and Susan Moger, there was no academic outlet available that addressed issues at the intersection of creativity and innovation. From zero to 1,163 records, from the new kid on the block to one of the leading journals in creativity and innovation management has been quite a journey, and we would like to reflect on the past 28 years and the intellectual and conceptual structure of Creativity and Innovation Management (CIM). Specifically, we highlight milestones and influential articles, identify how key journal characteristics evolved, outline the (co-)authorship structure, and finally, map the thematic landscape of CIM by means of a text-mining analysis. This study represents the first systematic and comprehensive assessment of the journal's published body of knowledge and helps to understand the journal's influence on the creativity and innovation management community. We conclude by discussing future topics and paths of the journal as well as limitations of our approach.
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