INNOVATION CHAMPIONS’ ACTIVITIES AND INFLUENCES IN ORGANISATIONS — A LITERATURE REVIEW

Katharina Drechsler, Victoria Reibenspiess, Andreas Eckhardt and Heinz-Theo Wagner
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Katharina Drechsler: Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences, Neu-Ulm, Germany2University of Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Victoria Reibenspiess: #x2020;University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Andreas Eckhardt: #x2020;University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Heinz-Theo Wagner: Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences, Neu-Ulm, Germany‡TU Munich, Campus Heilbronn, Germany

International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), 2021, vol. 25, issue 06, 1-31

Abstract: Innovation champions often play a pivotal role in facilitating new ideas and technology-based innovations within organisations. The rise of digital technology has led to radical changes in the nature of innovation and calls for an assessment of existing knowledge on innovation champions’ activities and their influence on organisations and networks. This paper provides a systematic, interdisciplinary literature review on innovation champions from an individual and organisational perspective. Based on a search of 149 high-quality journals and conference proceedings, we identified 92 articles as relevant and synthesised prior knowledge on innovation champions. We find that, whereas innovation champions’ activities have been explored in detail, research on innovation champions’ influence, especially on networks, has been limited. Furthermore, we identify research gaps with respect to differences in innovation champions’ activities at distinct stages of the innovation lifecycle and the formation of innovation champions’ networks.

Keywords: Innovation champion; literature review; interdisciplinary; activities; organisational influence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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