MACMILLAN The Palgrave Handbook of Workplace Innovation

Innovation is a source of building long-term sustainability. If implemented successfully it can lead to superior organizational performance. To be competitive, companies and their leaders continuously strive to engage in new market spaces by developing and engaging in an innovative culture so as to differentiate themselves from their rivals.  With contributions from scholars and practitioners, this Handbook provides evidence-based case studies to identify workplace innovation practices in developed and developing countries. Chapters are based on an organizational innovation framework and focuses on two major areas: the determinants of innovation and the process and outcome elements. It covers in-depth, cutting edge specialised topics such as frugal innovation, innovation associated with leadership as well as numerous organisational contexts such as for-profit and not for profit sectors and small, medium and large organisations. Essential reading for any student or scholar of innovation studies, this handbook provides novel coverage of innovation practices linked to organizational variables such as culture, ethics, leadership and performance. Review   Review   From the Back Cover This book addresses workplace innovation at an organizational level which is couched within developed and developing countries. It includes six major sections: workplace innovation in contexts, workplace innovation determinants, workplace innovation as a process, workplace innovation as an outcome, workplace innovation and transformations and finally, workplace innovation ecosystems. Innovation is a phenomenon which embraces complex causal relationships while also reflecting a basic sequential evolution process. Thus, the handbook chapters are based on the foundation of an “organizational innovation framework” which is designed as a sequential process. This framework focuses on two major areas which reflect the sequential view of innovation steeped in the determinants of innovation and innovation dimensions (process and outcome elements). The innovation determinants include group level, business process level and managerial level variables underpinned by Upper echelon theory, Process theory and Resource-based view theory. Innovation dimensions are formed by perspectives of innovation as a process and innovation as an outcome About the Author Adela McMurray is Professor of Management/HRM and Innovation at College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia. She has published over 280 papers and led numerous large research grants, is the Assistant Editor of the Journal of Management History, and a member of numerous Editorial Advisory Boards. She is the co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Leadership in Transforming Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Nuttawuth Muenjohn is a Senior Lecturer in Leadership Studies at the School of Management, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Australia. He is the co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Leadership in Transforming Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Chamindika Weerakoon is a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Department of Business Technology and Entrepreneurship in Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Her research primarily focuses on social innovation, entrepreneurial orientation and business model innovation. Her main teaching expertise includes Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management.