Workplace Innovation as Institutional Entrepreneurship

Helge Søndergaard Hvid; Vibeke Kristine Scheller

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-56333-6_11

Workplace Innovation as Institutional Entrepreneurship

Helge Søndergaard Hvid
, Vibeke Kristine Scheller

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Abstract

Workplace Innovation (WPI) ascribes to the tradition of Sociotechnical Systems (STS) in organisational development. Experiences of promoting STS show that neither economic arguments nor arguments of humanising work are sufficient to get companies to implement WPI activities. This chapter therefore examines the institutional conditions for implementation of WPI practices. It focuses particularly on institutional entrepreneurship exercised when WPI-related activities are implemented. The article is based on six case studies of Danish companies that have introduced WPI activities. It thus indicates that institutional alliances and coalitions are an important part of institutional entrepreneurship that creates change in the direction of WPI. The case studies also indicate that the sustainability of the introduced WPI activities depends on the institutional alliances related to their activity

Translated title of the contribution	Arbejdsplads innovation som institutionelt entreprenørskab
Original language	English
Title of host publication	Workplace Innovation : Theory, Research and Practice
Editors	Peter R. A. Oeij, Diana Rus, Frank D. Pot
Number of pages	17
Publisher	Springer
Publication date	2 Aug 2017
Pages	171-187
Chapter	11
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-56332-9
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-56333-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56333-6_11
Publication status	Published - 2 Aug 2017

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