Organisasjonsteori gir en solid og oversiktlig presentasjon av faget organisasjonsteori. Den dekk... more Organisasjonsteori gir en solid og oversiktlig presentasjon av faget organisasjonsteori. Den dekker emnene som tradisjonelt inng\ue5r i faget slik det undervises p\ue5 universitet og h\uf8yskoler, og legger vekt p\ue5 den nordiske tradisjonen i utvalget av tekster og eksempler. Boken er strukturert etter fagets historiske utvikling, fra antikken via den klassiske organisasjonsteorien og byr\ue5kratiteorien, og helt frem til de seneste utviklingstrekk, og viser sammenhengen de ulike skoler og teorier har vokst frem i.Organisasjonsteori bygger p\ue5 den svenske Organisation och organisering av Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist, Thomas Kalling og Alexander Styhre. Den norske utgaven er oversatt og bearbeidet av Kristin Woll. Woll har i tillegg formulert l\ue6ringsm\ue5l for de forskjellige kapitlene og dessuten skrevet et eget kapittel om makt. Boken er utviklet for undervisningsform\ue5l av skandinaviske forfattere som b\ue5de representerer akademisk tyngde, omfattende l\ue6rebokproduksjon og...
International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, 2013
ABSTRACT Purpose – This paper uses a combination of organisation theory, gender theory and the wo... more ABSTRACT Purpose – This paper uses a combination of organisation theory, gender theory and the work environment to study the generation and implementation of new ideas in organisations. How do employees' perceptions of organisational structure and the work environment affect idea generation and implementation, and how does gender moderate this relationship? Design/methodology/approach – The study develops and tests a structural equation model using data from a survey of a large Norwegian energy corporation. Survey items are measured using five-point scales and show good internal consistency levels. Exploratory factor analyses are used to ensure internal consistency, and confirmatory factor analyses are used to assess the fit of the model. Convergent and discriminant validity tests are also performed. Common method bias and invariance are evaluated across the female and male samples. Findings – The theoretical model had a better fit for the male sample than the female sample, indicating that men's innovations were better captured than women's. The relationship between creativity and implementation is moderated by gender: women's ideas are not implemented to the same degree as men's. Work pressure has a positive effect on creativity; support from colleagues affects both idea generation and implementation, though support from managers does not. Research limitations/implications – The study has the usual limitations of cross-sectional surveys. The findings confirm that the two phases of the innovation process (idea generation and implementation) depend on similar intrinsic motivational factors in the work environment. However, implementing ideas also depends on decision-making authority. Practical implications – Managers should be aware of how to increase innovative potential among employees. Employees should be given decision-making authority and work in an environment with supportive colleagues. The gendered findings in the study indicate that more attention should be paid to women's innovations in male-dominated corporations. Originality/value – The study integrates research from disciplines that traditionally do not communicate into one theoretical framework to explore the conditions for employee-driven innovation. The findings highlight the need for developing gender-neutral innovation measures and understanding context-embedding innovation processes.
ABSTRACT The relationship between external knowledge, absorptive capacity (AC) and innovative per... more ABSTRACT The relationship between external knowledge, absorptive capacity (AC) and innovative performance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is investigated empirically. Using data from a survey on firms located in North Norway, we ask whether AC plays a mediating role between different external knowledge inflows and innovative performance. The results are consistent with AC as an important mediator for transforming external knowledge inflows into higher innovative performance if we include all SMEs in the sample. However, this result is not robust when considering the sub-sample of non-R&D SMEs only. External knowledge inflows have a much stronger direct effect on innovation performance for non-R&D firms and leave a weak mediating effect of AC. Our findings suggest that measures of AC should be developed further in order to make AC a more relevant concept for empirical studies of SMEs without in-house R&D.
Organisasjonsteori gir en solid og oversiktlig presentasjon av faget organisasjonsteori. Den dekk... more Organisasjonsteori gir en solid og oversiktlig presentasjon av faget organisasjonsteori. Den dekker emnene som tradisjonelt inng\ue5r i faget slik det undervises p\ue5 universitet og h\uf8yskoler, og legger vekt p\ue5 den nordiske tradisjonen i utvalget av tekster og eksempler. Boken er strukturert etter fagets historiske utvikling, fra antikken via den klassiske organisasjonsteorien og byr\ue5kratiteorien, og helt frem til de seneste utviklingstrekk, og viser sammenhengen de ulike skoler og teorier har vokst frem i.Organisasjonsteori bygger p\ue5 den svenske Organisation och organisering av Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist, Thomas Kalling og Alexander Styhre. Den norske utgaven er oversatt og bearbeidet av Kristin Woll. Woll har i tillegg formulert l\ue6ringsm\ue5l for de forskjellige kapitlene og dessuten skrevet et eget kapittel om makt. Boken er utviklet for undervisningsform\ue5l av skandinaviske forfattere som b\ue5de representerer akademisk tyngde, omfattende l\ue6rebokproduksjon og...
International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, 2013
ABSTRACT Purpose – This paper uses a combination of organisation theory, gender theory and the wo... more ABSTRACT Purpose – This paper uses a combination of organisation theory, gender theory and the work environment to study the generation and implementation of new ideas in organisations. How do employees' perceptions of organisational structure and the work environment affect idea generation and implementation, and how does gender moderate this relationship? Design/methodology/approach – The study develops and tests a structural equation model using data from a survey of a large Norwegian energy corporation. Survey items are measured using five-point scales and show good internal consistency levels. Exploratory factor analyses are used to ensure internal consistency, and confirmatory factor analyses are used to assess the fit of the model. Convergent and discriminant validity tests are also performed. Common method bias and invariance are evaluated across the female and male samples. Findings – The theoretical model had a better fit for the male sample than the female sample, indicating that men's innovations were better captured than women's. The relationship between creativity and implementation is moderated by gender: women's ideas are not implemented to the same degree as men's. Work pressure has a positive effect on creativity; support from colleagues affects both idea generation and implementation, though support from managers does not. Research limitations/implications – The study has the usual limitations of cross-sectional surveys. The findings confirm that the two phases of the innovation process (idea generation and implementation) depend on similar intrinsic motivational factors in the work environment. However, implementing ideas also depends on decision-making authority. Practical implications – Managers should be aware of how to increase innovative potential among employees. Employees should be given decision-making authority and work in an environment with supportive colleagues. The gendered findings in the study indicate that more attention should be paid to women's innovations in male-dominated corporations. Originality/value – The study integrates research from disciplines that traditionally do not communicate into one theoretical framework to explore the conditions for employee-driven innovation. The findings highlight the need for developing gender-neutral innovation measures and understanding context-embedding innovation processes.
ABSTRACT The relationship between external knowledge, absorptive capacity (AC) and innovative per... more ABSTRACT The relationship between external knowledge, absorptive capacity (AC) and innovative performance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is investigated empirically. Using data from a survey on firms located in North Norway, we ask whether AC plays a mediating role between different external knowledge inflows and innovative performance. The results are consistent with AC as an important mediator for transforming external knowledge inflows into higher innovative performance if we include all SMEs in the sample. However, this result is not robust when considering the sub-sample of non-R&D SMEs only. External knowledge inflows have a much stronger direct effect on innovation performance for non-R&D firms and leave a weak mediating effect of AC. Our findings suggest that measures of AC should be developed further in order to make AC a more relevant concept for empirical studies of SMEs without in-house R&D.
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