Management guidelines to address cultural challenges and facilitate values-based innovation through gamification

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Authors

  • Henning Breuer
  • Kiril Ivanov
  • Carmen Abril

Gamification has developed into a methodology of its own to drive innovation and to foster values-based innovation cultures within organisations. However, there are no clear management guidelines, nor any overview of the different gamification approaches that will help organisations to facilitate values-based innovation and to successfully address cultural challenges through gamification. This paper explores this new field through a review of the literature and gathering managerial insights from 26 in-depth interviews with innovation managers from European companies. Based on the findings, we synthesise knowledge and formulate management guidelines for designing and implementing gamification processes to foster values-based innovation cultures within organisations. Our findings reveal the potential for the gamification of innovation and outline pathways for future research on the gamification of values-based innovation and organisational culture development.

Original languageEnglish
JournalInternational Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Volume27
Issue number3-4
Pages (from-to)208-236
Number of pages29
ISSN1368-275X
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10.2023
EventISPIM Connects Global Conference 2020: Celebrating the World of Innovation - Virtuell, Japan
Duration: 07.12.202008.12.2020
https://www.ispim-innovation.com/post/ispim-connects-global-conference-2020-preview

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Preliminary results from this research have been presented at ISPIM Innovation Conference 2020 and we thank everyone who joined the discussion. We thank Paul Lauer for copyediting, as well as our colleagues from the IMPACT project for sponsoring that work. Copyediting of this paper has been funded with support from the European Commission, IMPACT Project Number 621672-EPP-1-2020-1-DE-EPPKA2-KA, Project Duration January 2021–December 2023. This publication reflects the views only of the authors and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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