Improving the value-of-input for ideation by management intervention: An intra-organizational network study
Improving the value-of-input for ideation by management intervention: An intra-organizational network study
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jengtecman.2017.10.006
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发表时间：
2017-10-01
影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
Dolfsma, Wilfred
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作者：
Aalbers, Rick;Dolfsma, Wilfred
企业中的自主性社会网络是个体员工自愿分享新的、创新的知识的地方，在这个网络中的活动对企业创新至关重要。利用一个独特的实地研究，我们定量比较前后的情况，一个“简单的”管理干预，旨在增加自由裁量的社会网络活动。我们认为，网络的位置以及个人的正式角色都需要考虑到了解组织内有价值的投入的自愿交流的先决条件。我们发现经验证据表明，某人在网络中的结构位置干预前积极贡献的价值的输入交换。然而，与预期相反的是，那些员工的任务是专业地分享有价值的新知识，这些知识被认为是未来创新的投入--创意者--在利用公司自由裁量的非正式社交网络中的有利地位方面做得不够。
A discretionary social network in a firm is where individual employees voluntarily share new, innovative knowledge activities in this network are essential to firm innovation. Drawing on a unique field study we quantitatively compare the situation before and after a 'simple' management intervention aimed at increasing discretionary social network activity. We submit that both the network position as well as the formal role of an individual both needs to be taken into account to understand the antecedents to the voluntary exchange of valuable inputs within an organization. We find empirical evidence that someone's structural position in the network prior to intervention positively contributes to the value-of-input exchanged. Contrary to expectation, however, those employees whose task it is to professionally share valuable, new knowledge attributed the input for future innovation - ideators - fall short in leveraging a favorable position in a firm's discretionary, informal social network.