Missouri University of Science and Technology
Advancing a Systems Perspective on Innovative Behavior
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>"Engineering organizations pursue innovation in strategy, structure, processes, and the services and products offered to remain relevant and competitive. Identifying factors supporting or constraining innovative work behavior and recognizing the complexity of their interactions are vital to sustaining an innovative workforce, yet how factors interact has not been comprehensively studied.</p> <p>Recognizing innovative work behavior as the output of a complex system of factors guided this study’s literature search that identified over one hundred individual, team, and organizational factors influencing innovative behavior, interviews of engineers to learn what factors are essential in their work environment, and Delphi survey to rank factors, culminating in causal loop diagrams constructed to demonstrate that relationships between factors driving innovation could be modeled as a system.</p> <p>For the engineering manager, recommendations include understanding how multi-level factor outcomes aggregate and the direction of their influence, and how lower-level effects transform and coalesce through synergies, negotiations, learning, or resistance as they work through and on the organization to create new, higher-level outcomes. And for the researcher, topics are offered for additional analysis, for example, how remote, distributed work may affect innovative behavior"-- Abstract, p. iii</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph. D. in Engineering Management
- Grantor
- Missouri University of Science and Technology
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Demski, Stephen
Subjects
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dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/doctoral_dissertations/3293
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholarsmine.mst.edu:doctoral_dissertations-4298