Abstract
Innovative behaviour can be referred as the introduction and application of new ideas, products, processes, and procedures to a person's work role or an organization. The aim of this mapping study is to investigate the areas regarding innovative behaviour of employees in software companies and also to find the research gap by using existing studies from 2008 to 2017. Aspects such as publication year and source, research type, factors affecting innovations and employee innovative behaviour and technologies have been concerned. The study was done by searching five electronic databases. Then the initial result ended up with 487 studies. After applying selection criteria to that result, a total number of 11 studies were selected. In the next stage snowballing and direct search was done to publications of researchers and research groups that accomplished these studies. This resulted in adding 6 more papers. Finally, 17 studies were identified addressing the research topic and answering research questions. A lot of studies were found regarding innovations in organizations and there were few studies about innovative behaviour of employees, but mapping study clearly shows an increase in the interest of the research topic in the recent years. Thus employees are the driving forces of innovations, most of the research papers discussing about innovations have also focused on the employee innovative behaviour. Besides, papers have discussed the factors affecting the employee innovative behaviour. Some of those papers have proposed innovative models to improve innovations. So as the conclusion, the findings show that innovative behaviour of employees is a very important area to consider to enhance innovations in organizations and also more studies should be done regarding the research topic. KEYWORDS: Innovative behaviour, Innovations, Knowledge sharing
Highlights
Along with the advancement of technology, software companies have shown rapid growth since the last decades (Ranasinghe, 2011)
Kitchenham has stated that a mapping study gives an idea in the early phases and shortcomings or gaps in existing evidence, which becomes the basis for future research studies
That means this paper gives a systematic mapping on employee innovative behaviour of organizations and software companies. 8 research questions were defined and addressed investigating the following aspects
Summary
Along with the advancement of technology, software companies have shown rapid growth since the last decades (Ranasinghe, 2011). Considering the importance of employee innovative behaviour towards innovations in software companies, this paper aims to identify the current literature and factors affecting the innovative behaviour of employees in organizations by means of a mapping study. This study is used to identify publications discussing the innovative behaviour of employees in software companies. Because there are a few past researches regarding the innovative behaviour of employees in software companies, studies that have been done for other organizations have been examined. Using those papers, the following aspects were investigated: innovative behaviour of employees, factors affecting the innovative behaviour of employees, barriers to improving employee innovative behaviour, innovative measurements and strategies used in software companies. Organizations are required to capitalize on employees’ innovative behaviour which is interested subject and consideration of both practitioner and researchers (Hakimian, 2016)
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