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Employee Involvement in Innovation as a Source of Sustained Competitive Advantage

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  • Peter Fatur

    (University of Primorska, Slovenia)

  • Borut Likar

    (University of Primorska, Slovenia)

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The paper reports the results of a survey investigating the practices of idea management in Slovenian companies. Idea management is a formalized mechanism for the creation of inventions and their transformation into innovations in the widest range of employees – nonprofessional inventors, as a rule. The survey discusses factors influencing idea management and, consecutively, the invention-innovation capabilities of a company. Special attention is paid to organizational issues of idea management. The decentralized supervisor-managed system, where the predominant responsibility for implementing idea management is entrusted to each line manager, proves to be essentially more successful than the traditional, centrally-driven model.

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  • Peter Fatur & Borut Likar, 2009. "Employee Involvement in Innovation as a Source of Sustained Competitive Advantage," Management, University of Primorska, Faculty of Management Koper, vol. 4(3), pages 243-257.
  • Handle: RePEc:mgt:youmng:v:4:y:2009:i:3:p:243-257
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