Title
Workplace innovation and social innovation: An introduction
Author
Howaldt, J.
Oeij, P.R.A.
Dhondt, S.
Fruytier, B.
Publication year
2016
Abstract
This is the introduction to this special issue of World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development (WREMSD) dedicated to workplace innovation and social innovation related to work and organisation. As technological and business model innovations alone are not sufficient to enhance opportunities for businesses and employment, awareness is rising that better use should be made of human talents and new ways of organising and managing. In order to make working environments more receptive for innovation, and to enable people in organisations to take up an entrepreneurial role as intrapreneurs, a shift towards workplace innovation can be observed. Workplace innovation is complementary to technological and business model innovation, and a necessary ingredient for successful renewal, in that it addresses a type of management that seeks collaboration with employees through dialogue and employee engagement. Consequently, not only improvements of the quality of work for employees become beckoning perspectives, improving the business is at hand as well through successful innovations in the organisation's functioning, its culture of cooperation and leadership and the implementation of changes in the domain of HR-practices.
Subject
Life
SP - Sustainable Productivity and Employability
ELSS - Earth, Life and Social Sciences
Work and Employment
Workplace
Healthy Living
Workplace innovation
WPI
Social innovation
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1504/wremsd.2016.073433
TNO identifier
530025
Source
World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development, 12 (1), 1-12
Document type
article