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Evidence of Workplace Innovation from Organisational and Economic Studies

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This chapter gives an overview of evidence on the association between Workplace Innovation (WPI), company performance and quality of working life . We identify which research approaches are the most promising for WPI, and aim to understand why not all companies invest in WPI. The analysis consists of a literature review of current research evidence on WPI. There is not one research result that provides a final result for the hypothesised association. However, the large amount of partial results make a positive association between WPI, company performance and quality of working life quite likely. It is concluded that more high-quality research is needed on the realization of workplace innovation . Improved data collection and data analysis methods will provide organisations with a more solid framework for choosing which practices increase organisational performance, and quality of working life . Also the complicated nature of WPI models hinder the diffusion of WPI, organisations cannot just copy each other’s innovations.

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  1. TNO, The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Steven Dhondt

  2. KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Steven Dhondt

  3. Centre for Sociological Research, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Lander Vermeerbergen & Geert Van Hootegem

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  3. Institute for Management Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Frank D. Pot

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Dhondt, S., Vermeerbergen, L., Van Hootegem, G. (2017). Evidence of Workplace Innovation from Organisational and Economic Studies. In: Oeij, P., Rus, D., Pot, F. (eds) Workplace Innovation. Aligning Perspectives on Health, Safety and Well-Being. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56333-6_6

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