Practice-to-Research: Translating Company Phenomena into Empirical Research

Lena Mayer (), Katharina Hölzle (), Karen Schmieden (), Reem Refaie (), Hanadi Traifeh () and Christoph Meinel ()
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Lena Mayer: HPI School of Design Thinking, Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering
Katharina Hölzle: HPI School of Design Thinking, Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering
Karen Schmieden: HPI School of Design Thinking, Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering
Reem Refaie: HPI School of Design Thinking, Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering
Hanadi Traifeh: HPI School of Design Thinking, Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering
Christoph Meinel: University of Potsdam

A chapter in Design Thinking Research, 2022, pp 147-159 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Doing relevant and rigorous research often leads to a research-to-practice and practice-to-research gap, which both involved parties need to actively address and bridge. All parties involved face the challenges presented in the steps of identifying practice- and science-relevant research questions. This begins with the translation of these questions into a practice-feasible, but also empirically-based, research design and is followed by the retranslation of observations into scientific language to assess and interpret the observed phenomena. In this chapter, we report on our research approach to move from innovation practitioners’ narratives to a quantitative study design. We translate what we have learned from employees about innovation activities, behaviors, and structures, into a study design to measure employees’ innovative behaviors overall in a large quantitative study. The resulting empirical study assesses the link between employees’ Job Insecurity and Innovation Behavior as well as three assumed moderating effects (Organizational Support, Participative Decision-Making, Job Autonomy).

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-09297-8_8

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