Why Do Employees Participate in Innovations? Skills and Organizational Design Issues and the Ongoing Technological Transformation

Nathalie Greenan and Silvia Napolitano
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Silvia Napolitano: CEET - Centre d'études de l'emploi et du travail - CNAM - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM] - M.E.N.E.S.R. - Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche - Ministère du Travail, de l'Emploi et de la Santé, LIRSA - Laboratoire interdisciplinaire de recherche en sciences de l'action - CNAM - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM]

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Abstract: There is a recent and growing literature on the consequences of the ongoing technological transformation on skills. Most of the time it views technological progress as an exogenous shock that impacts the relative demands for labor with different skills. This chapter takes as a starting point that the technological transformation is the results of organizational choices. Hence it reviews a literature relating to what is going on upstream rather than downstream in the innovation process. In particular, it addresses how organizations take advantage of new technological opportunities to reform their designs, how they create work environments that favor innovative work behavior, and why employees engage their resources by participating to innovation.

Keywords: technological transformation; ambidexterity; tensions; innovative work behaviour; organisational design; skills; transformation technologique; ambidextérité; comportement de travail innovant; Changement organisationnel; Compétences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-09-17
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Published in Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer International Publishing, pp.1-22, 2021, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_233-1⟩

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_233-1

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