Exploring the Role of IT in the Front-End of Innovation: An Empirical Study of IT-Enabled Creative Behavior

IF 5.7 2区 管理学 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE Information and Organization Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI:10.1016/j.infoandorg.2020.100322
Saggi Nevo , Dorit Nevo , Alain Pinsonneault
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The front-end of innovation (FEI) is critical for successful innovation in contemporary organizations. Employee creativity, or creative behavior, is at the heart of the FEI and it encompasses three activities: idea generation, idea elaboration, and idea championing. Information technology (IT) can play an important role in enabling these activities but extant research has focused primarily on IT-enabled idea generation. This paper complements the extant research by examining the entire set of activities that compose FEI. Specifically, we develop a model that examines IT-enabled idea generation, IT-enabled elaboration and IT-enabled championing, and that, grounded in the componential theory of creativity, analyzes their key drivers. An empirical study establishes the applicability of the model. The paper contributes to IS research and practice by shedding light on the tripartite role that organizational IT can play in employee creativity, and it serves as a springboard for future research.

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探索信息技术在创新前端的作用:基于信息技术的创新行为的实证研究
创新前端是当代组织创新成功的关键。员工创造力或创造性行为是FEI的核心,它包括三个活动:想法产生、想法阐述和想法支持。信息技术(IT)可以在实现这些活动方面发挥重要作用,但现有的研究主要集中在信息技术支持的创意产生上。本文通过考察构成FEI的整个活动集来补充现有的研究。具体来说,我们开发了一个模型,该模型检查了it支持的想法产生、it支持的阐述和it支持,并以创造力的组成理论为基础,分析了它们的关键驱动因素。实证研究证实了模型的适用性。本文通过揭示组织IT在员工创造力中可以发挥的三方作用,为信息系统的研究和实践做出了贡献,并为未来的研究提供了跳板。
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期刊介绍: Advances in information and communication technologies are associated with a wide and increasing range of social consequences, which are experienced by individuals, work groups, organizations, interorganizational networks, and societies at large. Information technologies are implicated in all industries and in public as well as private enterprises. Understanding the relationships between information technologies and social organization is an increasingly important and urgent social and scholarly concern in many disciplinary fields.Information and Organization seeks to publish original scholarly articles on the relationships between information technologies and social organization. It seeks a scholarly understanding that is based on empirical research and relevant theory.
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