A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

Barriers to employee-driven innovation – A study of regional medium-sized bakery




SubtitleA study of regional medium-sized bakery

AuthorsAaltonen Satu, Hytti Ulla

PublisherIP Publishing Ltd

Publishing placeLondon

Publication year2014

JournalInternational Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Journal acronymIJEI

Volume15

Issue3

First page 159

Last page168

Number of pages10

eISSN2043-6882

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.5367/ijei.2014.0157(external)


Abstract
Innovativeness and employee-driven innovations in particular
are important sources of competitiveness for small and medium-sized food
companies. The fierce competition in the food industry is forcing these
companies to increase their operational efficiency in order to compete
with the large companies in the market. This paper investigates barriers to
innovations in the bakery sector through a case study of a growth-oriented
regional bakery. The study contributes to new contextualized knowledge of
employee-driven innovation activity in small food production companies.
It provides a nuanced understanding of how the manufacturing context of
a bakery leads to specific constraints on innovative employee behaviour,
and of how the context and the human, organizational and physical resources
interact with employee-driven innovation activity.
Innovativeness and employee-driven innovations in particular
are important sources of competitiveness for small and medium-sized food
companies. The fierce competition in the food industry is forcing these
companies to increase their operational efficiency in order to compete
with the large companies in the market. This paper investigates barriers to
innovations in the bakery sector through a case study of a growth-oriented
regional bakery. The study contributes to new contextualized knowledge of
employee-driven innovation activity in small food production companies.
It provides a nuanced understanding of how the manufacturing context of
a bakery leads to specific constraints on innovative employee behaviour,
and of how the context and the human, organizational and physical resources
interact with employee-driven innovation activity.



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