Purpose: Achieving employee participation in continuous improvement (CI) systems is considered as one of the success factors for the sustainability of those systems. Yet, it is also very difficult to obtain because of the interaction of many critical factors that affect employee participation....

"From one of today's foremost innovation leaders, an inspiring and practical guide to mastering change in the face of relentless uncertainty. The world will never be slower than it is right now, says Beth Comstock, the former Vice Chair and head of marketing and innovation at GE. But confronting...

To be successful innovators, organizations must select the best ideas for implementation. Extant research shows that idea selection is distorted by a number of biases, but has failed to consider hierarchy, a key element of organizations. We examine how hierarchical distance between an idea’s...

Tech-Giganten wie Facebook, Google und Co. haben es vorgemacht: Sie haben sich von Start-ups zu Global Playern entwickelt, die der Branche ihre Spielregeln aufdiktieren, und die traditionellen Unternehmen zwingen, sich den veränderten Marktbedingungen anzupassen. Und sie haben hierfür ganz...