Is Motivation always the Key? – Antecedents of Employee-Driven Digital Innovation

• DOI: 10.24251/hicss.2023.587
• Publication Date: 2024-02-16T15:38:35Z
• Authors: Leif Erik Opland; Katja Bley; Ilias Pappas
• Keywords: motivation; Innovation in Organizations: Learning; employee-driven digital innovation; VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200; Unlearning; 650; VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Informasjons- og kommunikasjonsvitenskap: 420; and Intentional Forgetting

Understanding the factors that can explain innovation has received a lot of attention among researchers in the last decades. During the same period, different approaches to innovation have also seen the light of day, among them employee-driven innovation and digital innovation. In this study our aim is to look at a concept that merges these two types of innovation and see how motivation affects employee-driven digital innovation. In our research model we look at how intrinsic, social, and internalized extrinsic motivation affects employee-driven digital innovation, and how variables like strategy and organizational culture can act as explanatory and moderating variables.