Full Description
Innovation is a source of building long-term sustainability. If implemented successfully it can lead to superior organizational performance. To be competitive, companies and their leaders continuously strive to engage in new market spaces by developing and engaging in an innovative culture so as to differentiate themselves from their rivals.
With contributions from scholars and practitioners, this Handbook provides evidence-based case studies to identify workplace innovation practices in developed and developing countries. Chapters are based on an organizational innovation framework and focuses on two major areas: the determinants of innovation and the process and outcome elements. It covers in-depth, cutting edge specialised topics such as frugal innovation, innovation associated with leadership as well as numerous organisational contexts such as for-profit and not for profit sectors and small, medium and large organisations.
Essential reading for any studentor scholar of innovation studies, this handbook provides novel coverage of innovation practices linked to organizational variables such as culture, ethics, leadership and performance.
Contents
Introduction - An introduction to Workplace innovation and workplace innovation framework.- Part I: Theme 01 - Innovation in Contexts.- Chapter 1: Innovation in Developing Countries: The world's poorest communities.- Chapter 2: Innovation in the Developed countries: Success (abundant innovation) and sad (lack of innovation).- Part II: Theme 02 - Determinants of Innovation.- Chapter 3: Innovation Leadership in a transforming workplace innovation context.- Chapter 4: Brilliant and Eccentric Men and Women: Oddballs of Innovation or Madness?.- Chapter 5: Innovation and Organizational Culture.- Chapter 6: Developing Innovation Strategy in Organizations: A value innovation approach.- Chapter 7: Innovation trade-offs and People Management: Information and Communication Technology.- Chapter 8: Implementing and Evaluating Innovation Performance Outcomes.- Chapter 9: Innovation, Regulation and Sustainability: The trilemma withinformal organisational structures.- Part III: Theme 03 - Innovation as a Process.- Chapter 10: The Predictive Power of Innovation: Using innovation frameworks to predict change.- Chapter 11: Ideate to Execute Innovation to Fruition: Power of the mind and transformation.- Chapter 12: Innovation Graveyards: Resting places of innovation dumping grounds.- Chapter 13: Cross-disciplinary innovation: Tangible and Intangible Comprehensions.- Chapter 14: Top down or Bottom up processes - Frugal innovation and Reverse Innovation approach.- Chapter 15: The Locus of innovation: The case of open innovation.- Chapter 16: The social dimension of innovation: collaboration among government, social enterprises and community.- Part IV: Theme 04 -The Workplace Innovation - Innovation as an Outcome.- Chapter 17: Product innovation in developed and developing country context .- Chapter 18: Service Innovation in developed and developing country context.- Chapter 19: Process Innovation in developed and developing country context.- Chapter 20: Marketing Innovation in developed and developing country context.- Chapter 21: Business Model Innovation in developed and developing country context.- Chapter 22: Workplace innovation: A drive for social innovation in social enterprises.- Chapter 23: Frugal workplace innovation outcomes: doing more with less.- Part V - Theme 05 - Innovation and Transformations.- Chapter 24: Corporate social innovation: CSR and paradigms of change to enhance sustainability.- Chapter 25: Generational Innovation: Great documentaries of chronological innovation points in time - music, business, people, trends etc.- Chapter 26: Serial Innovation: The Spirit Transcending from Past to Future.- Chapter 27: Unleashing Innovation Across Ethical and Moral Boundaries: The dark side of using innovation for self-advantage.- Chapter 28: The Future of Changing Workplace Innovation: Challenges and opportunities of ICT.- Chapter 29: Conclusion: The future of workplace innovation.
