TY - GEN
T1 - Reengineering the Innovation Culture through Social media Crowdsourcing
T2 - When the customer encounter the employee
AU - Scupola, Ada
AU - Nicolajsen, Hanne Westh
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - In this article we investigate how social media-based crowdsourcing systems can be used to reengineer the innovation culture in an organization. Based on a case study of a large engineering consultancy’s use of a social media crowdsourcing system we investigate the impact on the organizations innovation culture using theory on organizational culture and crowdsourcing. The analysis shows that the organizational crowdsourcing event has supported an innovation culture change in the case company towards a more including approach to innovation; creating a new and different awareness of innovation, allowing for internal process innovations, empowering the employees, supporting knowledge work and collaboration across the organization to a new extent and overcoming the traditional hierarchy in the organization.
AB - In this article we investigate how social media-based crowdsourcing systems can be used to reengineer the innovation culture in an organization. Based on a case study of a large engineering consultancy’s use of a social media crowdsourcing system we investigate the impact on the organizations innovation culture using theory on organizational culture and crowdsourcing. The analysis shows that the organizational crowdsourcing event has supported an innovation culture change in the case company towards a more including approach to innovation; creating a new and different awareness of innovation, allowing for internal process innovations, empowering the employees, supporting knowledge work and collaboration across the organization to a new extent and overcoming the traditional hierarchy in the organization.
KW - Social Media-Based Crowdsourcing
KW - Innovation Culture
KW - Organizational Culture
KW - Employee Empowerment
KW - Knowledge Work and Collaboration
KW - Social Media-Based Crowdsourcing
KW - Innovation Culture
KW - Organizational Culture
KW - Employee Empowerment
KW - Knowledge Work and Collaboration
M3 - Article in proceedings
BT - Det Danske Ledelsesakademi 2012
ER -