Abstract
This essay conducts a bibliometric study on innovation research in organizations within the three levels (i.e., individual, work team, and organizational) by using CiteSpace software to analyze 6,354 academic articles from the year 2000 to 2020 in four aspects: temporal distribution of published papers, scientific community (countries/regions/cited authors), intellectual structure (cited journals/cited references), and research hotspots. The research findings show that the total number and the growth rate of publications at the organizational level are far higher than the other two levels (individual and work team). The top three countries with the number of publications are United States, China, and United Kingdom. The top five highly cited authors are identified and listed from individual, work team, and organizational levels. Academy of Management Journal and Academy of Management Review are the top two highly cited journals at all three levels (i.e., individual, work team, and organizational levels). The most highly cited articles at the three levels are about topics of linking empowering leadership and employee creativity, team-level predictors of innovation at work, and organizational ambidexterity. The top three research hotspots are identified and listed from individual, work team, and organizational levels. These findings provide snapshots and comparisons of innovation research in management within the three levels (i.e., individual, work team, and organizational levels), which might be beneficial for researchers and scholars to understand and explore innovative behavior in organizations from a multilevel perspective.
Highlights
Serving as a critical source of competitive advantage in organizations, innovation research has been deeply explored among researchers in management (Anderson et al, 2014)
As the pressure for organizational change has increased with progressing globalization and competition in the twenty-first century, the growing attention has been attached to organizational innovation (Poole and Van de Ven, 2004)
After 6 years of steady development, the number of organizational innovation publications increased sharply from 2006 to 2011, which may result from a wave of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) around 2006 (Bhaskaran, 2006; Calipha et al, 2010)
Summary
Serving as a critical source of competitive advantage in organizations, innovation research has been deeply explored among researchers in management (Anderson et al, 2014). From the early 1980s to the late 1990s, many studies expanded topics from the organizational level, such as innovation processes (Kimberly, 1981; Woodman et al, 1993; Amabile, 1997) and innovation determinants (complexity of structure, size, slack resources, and culture) (Rogers et al, 1983; Damanpour, 1991; West and Anderson, 1992), to the individual and work team levels. Innovation Research in Organizations involving personality characteristics (Barron and Harrington, 1981), motivation (Amabile, 1983), cognitive abilities (Kirton, 1999), team structure (West and Anderson, 1996), team climate (West and Anderson, 1996), and team processes (West, 1990). Innovation research has been undertaken from a multilevel perspective involving topics such as task and goal interdependence (Van der Vegt and Janssen, 2003), job characteristics (Baer et al, 2003), transformational leadership (Shin et al, 2012), social network (Shalley and Perry-Smith, 2008), and reflexivity climate (Jung et al, 2003)
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