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An empirical investigation on organizational innovation and individual creativity

verfasst von: Jianping Peng, Guoying Zhang, Zhengping Fu, Yong Tan

Erschienen in: Information Systems and e-Business Management | Ausgabe 3/2014

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Innovation is one of the critical success factors for organizations. It is essential for business to understand the driving forces of innovation. This study investigates the impact of the following three factors on innovation: employee relationship, knowledge sharing, and IT application maturity. 167 samples of firm level data were collected to construct the measurements of innovation, intensity of employee relationship, employee diversity, quality of knowledge sharing, and IT application maturity. It is found that all of these factors have significant impacts on innovation. We further extend the investigation to individual creativity as a corresponding concept to organizational innovation. An employee social network was constructed at a size of 149 nodes. It is shown that the centrality of each employee in the social network has significant positive impact on individual creativity. With these results from investigating organizational innovation and individual creativity, this study empirically illustrates the importance of enhancing employee relationship, knowledge sharing, and IT application maturity.

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Titel: An empirical investigation on organizational innovation and individual creativity
verfasst von: Jianping Peng
Guoying Zhang
Zhengping Fu
Yong Tan
Publikationsdatum: 01.08.2014
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in: Information Systems and e-Business Management / Ausgabe 3/2014
Print ISSN: 1617-9846
Elektronische ISSN: 1617-9854
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10257-013-0227-y

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