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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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- Beretta, M., et al.
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Moderating Ideation in Web-Enabled Ideation Systems
- 2018
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Ingår i: The Journal of product innovation management. - : Blackwell Publishing. - 0737-6782 .- 1540-5885. ; 35:3, s. 389-409
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- While organizations increasingly implement web-enabled ideation systems to access the collective intelligence of their distributed employees, recent studies show that most attempts to use these systems underperform or fail. This article draws on a qualitative case study of the Ericsson system “Idea Boxes” to explore a novel approach to manage ideation based on the use of the moderator role. The aim of this study is to understand to what extent and how the introduction of moderators can contribute to a better management of web-enabled ideation systems and to overcome the shortcomings commonly associated with their use. The contribution of this study to innovation literature is threefold. First, it develops a conceptual framework that gives insights into the practices implemented by moderators to manage ideation, namely: (1) formulating an ideation strategy, (2) combining means for community building, and (3) formalizing the ideation process. It focuses on unfolding their key complementarities. Second, this study relates these practices to the shortcomings of web-enabled ideation systems with respect to the sourcing, filtering, and handling of employees' ideas. It discusses how the identified practices can help organizations address these shortcomings by stimulating sustained employee participation, increasing the quality and fit of the ideas generated, and ensuring their efficient selection and integration. Third, this article compares moderators to other innovation roles discussed in the new product development literature with the aim of broadening the future research agenda toward an investigation of emerging organizational roles having limited formal authority to manage innovation. The findings of this study provide valuable guidelines to managers to implement more sophisticated approaches for a better management of the ideation process through web-enabled ideation tools.
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- Bergendahl, Magnus
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Collaboration and competition in firm-internal ideation management : Two alternatives – and a third way out
- 2015
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The passive reliance on ideas to spontaneously emerge within companies is today replaced with more active and continuous ideation management that embraces employees from different functions and knowledge-domains within the company to create and develop ideas. A frequently observed feature in the active management of ideation is the reliance on collaboration and competition mechanisms. These mechanisms use the strength of enabling people to working together towards a shared interest (collaboration) and the power of enabling people to outperform each other in submitting the best idea (competition). The existing research on collaboration and competition in ideation is found inconclusive about their effects as collaboration is stated to both enhance and hamper performance, and as competition is claimed to both drive and reduce performance in ideation. This constitutes a limitation to the management of ideation as it reduces the ability to actively and purposefully guide ideation through a deliberate use of the two mechanisms.The aim of this thesis is to investigate collaboration and competition mechanisms in firm-internal ideation. A multi-methodological approach has been deployed using three different studies: a multiple case study, a survey, and an experiment. This has allowed for the phenomenon of ideation to be studied using different perspectives and for the individual results to be triangulated. The empirical data has been acquired from both industry and experiments with university students.The conducted research has revealed that the inconsistencies on the effects from the two mechanisms are possible to understand and resolve by applying a more detailed level of analysis. When competition is decomposed into components of individual- and group competition, it is found that individual competition drives idea quantity and that it hampers collaboration, whereas group competition instead is found to induce collaboration and to nurture idea quality. This indicates that competition can be used to manage levels of collaboration in ideation, thereby bridging the two mechanisms.This thesis further presents that the individual effects from each of the mechanisms are complementary to each other. This implies that the effect from each mechanism is retained when combined with the other mechanisms, and that the combined effect is equal to, or even greater than, the sum of the individual effects. This combined use is found to drive both ideation efficiency and motivation, and is offering management an interesting third alternative, out of the two mechanisms, of how firm-internal ideation can be managed in a more effective and efficient manner.An analytical framework is included, presenting the interrelationships between the mechanisms, motivation, ideation behavior and the ideation performance.
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- Bergendahl, Magnus, 1976-, et al.
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Ideation High Performers : A Study of Motivational Factors
- 2015
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Ingår i: Creativity Research Journal. - : Routledge. - 1040-0419 .- 1532-6934. ; 27:4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As innovation today is one of the keys to success for firms, creativity among its employees becomes a key asset and the understanding about what motivates employees in ideation is consequently of high interest. This article addresses differences in motivation among high- and low performers in ideation and contributes to existing theory by enhancing the understanding about what characterizes motivation among ideation high performers. The quantitative analysis used is based on a study performed at a multinational consumer goods company based in Sweden, surveying employees’ performance, motivation and their preferences towards collaboration and competition. Among key findings is the possible combination of collaboration and competition mechanisms as motivating means in firms’ ideation management.
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- Björk, Jennie, 1982
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Analyzing and realizing collective ideation in firms
- 2011
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Analyzing and realizing collective ideation in firmsJennie BjörkDepartment of Technology Management and EconomicsChalmers University of TechnologyAbstractThis thesis investigates collective aspects of ideation. An increasing body of literature has moved away from regarding ideation as solely the act of single individuals to acknowledge the importance of inter-individual relationships. This opens up new opportunities for companies but it also brings about a number of new challenges. For example, it raises the question of how collective ideation contributes to the creation of ideas for innovation and how it can be used in a purposeful way. While previous research has addressed collective ideation in groups, research on ideation networks, comprising individuals and their interactions contributing to the creation of ideas, has been far less researched. The aim of this thesis is to broaden the view of collective ideation by moving beyond the group level. It does so through investigating how individual and collective ideation activities take place within firms, by using a social network perspective. More specifically, the aim is to describe and analyze collective ideation activities in firms, and explore how these can be fruitfully used to nurture innovation efforts.Drawing upon data on all the ideas created within an organization over a number of years, the thesis uses social network analysis to map and analyze the internal networks contributing to idea generation. Several types of analyses have been used to increase our understanding of how various structural properties in an ideation network interrelate with ideation performance by individuals and groups. First, the research shows that individuals who collaborate with larger numbers of different individuals are associated with a higher probability of generating useful and novel ideas themselves. However, this pattern was only seen to a certain extent. Second, the results showed that network structure and ideation performance are interrelated for spontaneously formed groups but not for formal project groups. Formal and informal collective ideation activities are two different kinds that take place in parallel but the results show that they function under different conditions. Third, the thesis explores the lack of agreement in existing theory about the effect of so-called structural holes on organization performance, by focusing explicitly on structural holes in collective ideation. This research adds to an understanding of how the structural properties of interest potentially influence ideation performance, and offers a more nuanced discussion of the potential positive and negative effects of structural holes on ideation.Managing collective ideation addresses the well documented challenges of managing distributed knowledge systems. In order to investigate this further, data from four different case studies have been scrutinized. The results indicate that involvement, focus and formalization stand out as three major dimensions, with implications for how firms use and nurture collective ideation. This thesis argues for that companies can benefit from a deliberate approach to ideation that encompasses the creation of prerequisites for both emergent and planned ideation activities.
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- Björk, Jennie, et al.
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Creating Better Innovation Measurement Practices
- 2017
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Ingår i: Mit Sloan Management Review. - : Sloan Management Review Association. - 1532-9194. ; 59:1, s. 45-53
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- For most companies, innovation is a top managerial priority. Many managers look at successful innovators such as Apple Inc. and Google Inc. with envy, wishing their companies could be half as innovative. To boost and benchmark innovation, managers often use quantitative performance indicators.1 Some of these indicators measure innovation as results or outcomes such as sales from new products. Others measure innovation as a process, using metrics such as the number of innovation projects in progress. And some track input measures such as the number of ideas generated, while still others focus on the innovation portfolio, by looking at factors such as the percentage of investments in breakthrough projects versus product line extensions.
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- Björk, Jennie
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Dual-connected individuals in ideation
- 2010
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Ingår i: 11th International CINet Conference - Practicing innovation in times of discontinuity.
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- Björk, Jennie, 1982-, et al.
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Editorial
- 2018
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Ingår i: Creativity and Innovation Management. - : WILEY. - 0963-1690 .- 1467-8691. ; 27:4, s. 373-374
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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, et al.
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Heterogeneity and performance in innovation idea networks
- 2008
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 9<sup>th</sup> CINet conference.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper addresses the influence of heterogeneity on the creativityperformance of formal and informal groups when generating innovation ideas.Data on all innovation ideas generated at a company during three years havebeen gathered and analyzed. The empirical results showed that heterogeneityin formal groups has a positive influence on the quality of the ideas generated.However, after a certain amount of heterogeneity the performance drasticallydecreased, showing that there is an optimum for when heterogeneityinfluences the performance of the formal groups positively. The informalgroups did not show the same results.Managerial implications of the findings are that both the strategic input toideation and its organizing need to be considered.
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- Björk, Jennie, et al.
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Ideation capabilities for continuous innovation
- 2010
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Ingår i: Creativity and Innovation Management. - : Wiley. - 0963-1690 .- 1467-8691. ; 19:4, s. 385-396
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper explores ideation capabilities in large organizations. Based on the dynamic capabilities framework, it is seen that ideation capabilities are managerial and organizational processes for the stimulation, identification, selection and implementation of ideas. In order to explore how these capabilities are manifested and used in firms, case studies of four Swedish companies have been performed. The results of the study show that there are different approaches to ideation. In terms of the nature of innovative ideas, the observations lead to the suggestion that ideation presents some seemingly paradoxical issues to management. Firms with an explicit focus on building ideation practices experience that there are some negative consequences of the resultant formalization. Furthermore, the extent to which many employees should be involved in ideation is a difficult aspect, even though new technologies make this more viable. Also the degree to which the search for ideas should be directed is a non-trivial question, as the ideation processes can be facilitated by both freedom and limitations. It is nevertheless seen that firms can benefit from more deliberate approaches to ideation, in particular if these are broad and balanced and focus on both building capabilities that formalize the informal, in terms of establishing explicit processes, roles and systems, and building capabilities needed to manage informal structures in new ways.
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- Björk, Jennie, et al.
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Ideation performance in projects and informal groups
- 2009
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 1st ISPIM Innovation Symposium. - 9789522146656
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Ideation activities take place in all parts of an organization and in different settings. Received theory points out that both formal and informal groups hold potential for creativity and knowledge creation, but how these groups differ in terms of ideation is not known. The importance of group heterogeneity and access to information and knowledge through network connections has been stressed in earlier research and the performed study has focused on these factors. More specifically, this research explores the ideation performance of project teams and informal groups, respectively, by studying how heterogeneity and network connectivity might influence the quality of the innovation ideas created. Drawing upon an internal database from a large Swedish consumer goods company, all innovation ideas created by both formal and informal group constellations during three years have been analyzed. The investigation showed that a moderate level of heterogeneity in formal groups has a positive influence on the quality of the ideas generated. The ideation performance of informal groups did not reveal any interdependence with heterogeneity. Network connectivity was interdependent with creative performance for informal groups, where a certain amount of connectivity positively influenced the performance of the group. The performance of formal groups did not show this pattern and also revealed no significant relationship with network connectivity. Based on the analysis, implications for management and theory are drawn and discussed.
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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
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Nätverk stödjer idéprocessen
- 2011
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Ingår i: Entré : forskning om entreprenörskap & småföretag. - : Institutet för entreprenörskaps- och småföretagsforskning (ESBRI). - 1650-1691. ; :2, s. 9-
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- Björk, Jennie, et al.
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The Impact of Social Capital on Ideation : untapping the knowledge creation potential of internal networks
- 2010
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines the impact of social capital on the quality of ideas generated by individuals at work. Two dimensions of social capital are compared – the degree (i.e. the size) of an individual’s network of work relations, and the structural holes (i.e. gaps between nodes) of those relations. Analyzing a database from a Swedish company which has worked systematically with idea management, and which today has a well-established information technology system that collects ideas from a large number of employees, this study presents evidence indicating that the larger is the size of an individual’s’ ego network – specifically the number of social interactions with other actors – the larger this individual’s innovative performance in terms of high quality ideas, whereas the larger is the number of structural holes in the ego network, the lower is the quality of ideas generated by the individual. Our findings support the conclusion that individuals’ relationships within firms play a key role for value-creating behavior, and thereby contribute to a deeper understanding of how social capital influences idea generation.
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- Björk, Jennie, et al.
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The Impact of Social Capital on Ideation
- 2011
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Ingår i: Industry and Innovation. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1366-2716 .- 1469-8390. ; 18:6, s. 631-647
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines the impact of social capital on the quality of ideas generated by individuals at work. Two dimensions of social capital are investigated—the degree (i.e. size) of individuals' networks of ideation relations, and the structural holes (i.e. gaps between nodes) of those relations. Previous research has presented different and even conflicting empirical results concerning the effect of structural holes on innovation activities, and has not dealt specifically with the ideation phase of the innovation process. By drawing upon an idea database from a Swedish company that has worked systematically with idea management for an extensive period, this study investigates the interrelationship between social capital and ideation. The empirical study reveals that the larger the size of an individual's ego network, the higher is this individual's innovative performance in terms of high-quality ideas, whereas the larger the number of structural holes in an ego network, the lower is the quality of ideas generated by the individual in question. These findings support the conclusion that social capital, in terms of individuals' relationships with fellow employees within firms, has a positive influence on idea-generating behavior. Moreover, the results reveal that the presence of structural holes is negative for ideation performance, thus providing important new input to the recent debate on the interrelationship between structural holes and innovation in general.
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- Björk, Jennie, et al.
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The What, Who, When, Where, and How of Idea Assessment.
- 2016
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In contemporary innovation management literature there is limitedcomprehensive understanding regarding how different domains andfactors affect and bias early assessment of new product/service ideas.This paper aims at reviewing domains that previous research hasidentified affecting the evaluation of an idea and compiles them into aconceptual framework, and to test this framework among leading expertsand practitioners in the field of idea management. Empirical findings fromtwo workshops indicate that the identified domains in the framework areindeed relevant, but that additional aspect are highlighted and recognized by practitioners. We note that a proactive and deliberate approach to idea assessment needs to be carefully designed, attending to all factors in the presented framework in a comprehensive manner, while taking the organization's specific innovation needs and demands into account.
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- Björk, Jennie, et al.
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Turning ideas into innovations : introducing demand-driven collaborative ideation
- 2014
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Ingår i: International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development. - 1753-0660 .- 1753-0679. ; 5:4/5
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Web-enabled tools for ideation are becoming increasingly diffused in companies, but their true impact on innovation performance has been questioned. A factor that can explain some of the so far missing performance of these firm-internal systems for ideation is a lack of attention to the demand-side of ideation. Frequently, the focus of ideation is put more or less unilaterally on the supply-side, with the aim to generate as many or as good ideas as possible, instead of focusing on innovation needs. The aim of this article is to describe and analyse demand-driven collaborative ideation, with a particular emphasis on its management aspects. In order to empirically investigate how to manage this new approach to ideation, a case study of Ericsson, a Swedish multi-national corporation, has been performed. The results highlight that incentives, visibility and resources are three main components of demand-driven collaborative ideation and outline key challenges with this new approach to ideation.
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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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- Björk, Jennie, 1982-, et al.
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Where do good innovation ideas come from? : Exploring the influence of network connectivity on innovation idea quality
- 2009
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Ingår i: The Journal of product innovation management. - : Wiley. - 0737-6782 .- 1540-5885. ; 26:6, s. 662-670
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper aims to add to innovation management theory and practice by exploring the interrelationship between innovation idea quality and idea providers' network connectivity, using social network analysis. The study uses a database from a company that has worked systematically with idea management over a long period of time and today has a well-established information technology system that collects ideas from a large number of employees. In addition to the idea database, a number of interviews with key individuals within innovation were conducted to create rich contextual knowledge and understand more in detail how ideas are handled in the company. The analysis indicated that there is a clear interrelationship between the network connectivity and the quality of the innovation ideas created. The analysis was done for all the innovation ideas and then for ideas created by single individuals and by groups, respectively. In all three analyses the proportion of high-quality innovation ideas increased, as a step function, between the least connected group and the group thereafter. There is apparently a need for a certain amount of relations to increase the proportion of high-quality innovation ideas generated. Regarding only ideas provided by single individuals, more connections within the network resulted in a higher proportion of high-quality ideas. A different pattern was seen for ideas provided by groups as the proportion of high-quality innovation ideas grew with some increase in the connectivity of groups but declined with a further increase in connectivity. The findings suggest a number of implications for ideation management. To increase the number of high-quality innovation ideas created by individuals, the possibility to interact with other people should be supported and facilitated. However, in these settings, where individuals work with others in different groups, the most connected groups perform worst in terms of the proportion of high-quality ideas generated, which points to the necessity to consider a multitude of factors when managing ideation.
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- Björk, Jennie, 1982, et al.
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Where do good innovation ideas come from?
- 2008
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Ingår i: in proceedings of the 15th International Product Development Management Conference, June 29-July 1, 2008, Hamburg, Germany..
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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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Editorial
- 2019
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Ingår i: Creativity and Innovation Management. - : Wiley. - 0963-1690 .- 1467-8691. ; 28:1, s. 3-4
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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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Innovation & Entrepeneurship
- 2013
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- In a world that is getting increasingly connected and where globalism is a fact, the need to understand and communicate with researchers and engineers from different cultural backgrounds becomes very important. As a researcher, it is your task to constantly question things and to find better solutions to problems. On the surface the differences between conducting research and business in California or Sweden might not be so different, there are computers, IT-services and movies that makes California feel close and uncomplicated... but is there something beneath the surface? What makes Silicon Valley and Hollywood so dominant in their businesses and what is so special about California that makes almost every business want to be present here, from the big automotive companies to the small start up? It is with this background and the desire to learn more about product development that we chose to undertake yet another international product development excursion and travel to California to explore the culture and specifically their view on product development.The researchers in the group are members of the two Swedish National Research schools in product development and Innovation named ProViking and PIEp. All researchers are focused on different subjects within the umbrella of product development and connected to different industries. In order to further penetrate the subjects of interest the participants were divided into five groups according to their research interests: •Technology Development / Advanced Engineering•Product development Processes and Methods•Innovation and Management•Quality and Robustness in Design•Advanced materials and manufacturing processes The planning of the doctoral course and the trip took about one year to complete. We wanted to visit a diversity of Californian industries and research centers. The first workshop was set up in Gothenburg, Sweden, for three days in 2011. This was followed up by a workshop in Stockholm a few months later. We visited electronic industry, software developers, start-ups, research groups and institutions and attended stimulating speeches. Moreover, we focused specifically also on the role of the science park in Lindholmen, Göteborg and the telecom cluster in Kista, Stockholm.When we arrived in California and San Francisco in February 2012, we had a full program for the following two weeks. The first days was spent in and around San Francisco in the Silicon Valley area. We got to visit both exciting start-ups as well as established global companies and got to learn about the spirit of the Valley. For the second week we got to visit southern California represented by both a Hollywood film company and the most complex piece of product we have ever seen, the Curiosity Mars rover.So what is it all about, the spirit of Silicon Valley and the easy going Californian culture? Well we hope that this report will give some of the answers to the success of the Californian enterprises and what we can learn and take with us home to Sweden.
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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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- Karlsson, Anna, et al.
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Emotions in Idea Development : Exploring the Influence of Beliefs and Biases
- 2014
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recent developments within the field of innovation management have stressed the influence of emotions during idea development. This is important since emotions influence the way people act, and when it comes to ideas, emotions may even constitute the driving force that propels the development of an idea forward. This paper aims to add to this research trajectory by focusing on the emotional aspects in idea development. More specifically, this paper investigates the research question: How do belief and associated biases influence idea development? To empirically explore this topic, data from five different R&D project teams engaged in idea development activities was collected via semi-structured interviews. Results from the study show that numerous biases exist in the vicinity of idea development activities. Further, the identified biases were in many cases influenced in opposing ways (i.e., either favoring or opposing the development of an idea). Finally, biases pertained to three different areas with the result that three distinct tensions were identified. The first tension, denoted the “Positive Illusions” Tension, relates to the belief in the idea and resulting framing issues. This tension also appears to be particularly tricky since it includes a self-reinforcing component. The second tension—the Newness Tension—concerns the newness of the idea and a struggle between escalation of commitment and self-preservation mechanisms. The final tension—the Ownership Tension—relates to the perceived ownership of the idea, and how it can shift over time. Ultimately, the presence of belief and associated biases in idea development seems inevitable. However, the influence they have appears to be a balancing act between removing biases and maintaining the motivation of the actors involved. Managing this balancing act appears to be particularly important when it involves ideas that are creative or uncomfortable, i.e., in innovative situations. Managers are encouraged to make use of an outside perspective, pay special attention to ideas that fit into the tension areas identified, avoid an overly strong reality check for immature ideas, and finally “boost” the development of those ideas that risk too little attention from the team.
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- Karlsson, Anna, et al.
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Establish and Manage a network for continuous innovation : - Invoking organizational pressure
- 2015
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Social networks and relationships between actors have been identified as important both in terms of increasing our understanding of innovation and for organizations’ to realize innovation outcomes. While previous studies have informed us how knowledge creation in informal network structures can be influenced and managed by subtle management techniques, we know little of how companies intentionally can create and utilize networks for continuous innovation. The aim of this paper is to explore how a network for continuous innovation can be established and managed. A longitudinal case study have been performed using data covering the establishment and subsequent management of a network for supporting continuous innovation, spanning the product management and R&D department of a large multinational company. The results argue for the importance of the creation of a support structure as one layer within the network in order to uphold the development and evolvement of the network over time through support with competence development and influence the network through different kinds of subtle management techniques. Moreover, the paper argues for the importance of invoking organizational pressure for innovation outcome.
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- Karlsson, Anna, et al.
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Establishing and managing a network for continuous innovation : Invoking organizational pressure
- 2017
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Ingår i: Creativity and Innovation Management. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0963-1690 .- 1467-8691. ; 26:2, s. 128-141
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Social networks in organizations have been identified as important both in terms of increasing our understanding of innovation and for organizations to realize innovation outcomes. While previous studies have informed us of the importance of networks for innovation, we know little of how companies intentionally can design and utilize networks to achieve continuous innovation. The aim of this paper is to explore how a network for continuous innovation can be established and managed. A longitudinal case study has been performed using data covering the establishment and subsequent management of a network for supporting continuous innovation, spanning the product management and R&D department of a large multinational company. The results reveal the potential to use intra-organizational networks to invoke organizational pressure conducive for making innovation happen. This pressure is induced by autonomy and self-organizing in the network and consists of reciprocal expectations and demands between the top (management) and the bottom (employees involved in the network) of the organizational hierarchy. Implications for theory and practice are discussed
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