Employee-Driven Innovation

Foreword; T.Fenwick PART I: THE NATURE OF EMPLOYEE-DRIVEN INNOVATION Employee-driven Innovation: A New Phenomenon, Concept and Mode of Innovation; S.Hoyrup Employee-driven Innovation: Operating in a Chiaroscuro; A.Teglborg , R.Redien-Collot , C.Viala & M.Bonnafous-Boucher In Search of Best Practices for Employee-driven Innovation: Experiences from Norwegian Work Life; T.M.Aasen , O.Amundsen , L.J.Gressgard & K.Hansen PART II: EMPLOYEE-DRIVEN INNOVATION IN THE WORKPLACE MEDIATED THROUGH EMPLOYEE'S LEARNING Creating Work: Employee-driven Innovation Through Work Practice Reconstruction; O.M.Price , D.Boud & H.Scheeres Explaining Innovation at Work: A Sociopersonal Account; S.Billett Innovation Competency - an Essential Organizational Asset; L.Darso Employee-driven Innovation and Practice-based Learning in Organizational Cultures; C.Hasse & U.Brandi Employee-driven Innovation Amongst 'Routine' Employees in the UK: The Role of Organizational 'Strategies' and Individual 'Tactics'; E.Waite , K.Evans & N.Kersh PART III: EMPLOYEE-DRIVEN INNOVATION UNFOLDED IN GLOBAL NETWORKS AND COMPLEX SYSTEMS Moving Organizations toward Employee Driven Innovation (EDI) in Work Practices and on a Global Scale: Possibilities and Challenges; M.Lotz & P.H.Kristensen Exploring the Employee-driven Innovation Concept by Comparing 'Innovation Capability Management' among German and Chinese Firms; W.Fees & A.H.Taherizadeh Privileged yet Restricted?: Employee-driven Innovation and Learning in Three R&D Communities; T.Lempiala & S.Yli-Kauhaluoma Employee Driven Innovation and Industrial Relations; S.De Spiegelaere & G.Van Gyes

STEEN HØYRUP is Associate Professor in Education and Director of the research programme 'Organisation and Learning' at the Department of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark. He is engaged in the management of the EDI-network: The European network of Employee-Driven Innovation and Workplace Learning.

MARIA BONNAFOUS-BOUCHER is Professor and Dean of Research at Novancia, Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry Business School, France.

CATHRINE HASSE is Professor at the Department of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark.

MAJA LOTZ is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

KIRSTEN MØLLER is Project Manager at the Department of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark.