Innovationsorientierte Mitarbeiterpartizipation in KMU-Netzwerken: Einflussvariablen und Gestaltungsmoglichkeiten

Participation of employees can be seen as a key factor for the innovation capacity of small and medium-sized companies (SME). In order utilize the available extended innovation potential (heterogeneity of knowledge, experiences and competencies), affirmative incentives are essential. This article describes individual and organizational (contextual) influence factors of self-organized and innovation-oriented employee's participation. It suggests causalities between them and pleads for an incentivisation primarily with regard to the contextual influence factors. These deliberations form the basis of an outline of a development-oriented framework of reference for an affirmative encouragement of participation in innovation-oriented network communication of as many employees as possible. [PUB ABSTRACT]