TY - JOUR T1 - Employee-Driven Innovation: An Intervention Using Action Research JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2019 A1 - Mats Holmquist A1 - Anna Johansson KW - development KW - dialogue KW - ideas KW - learning KW - organizational innovation AB - This article describes an intervention to design and test a method for employee-driven innovation and a model for learning among managers and development leaders. The empirical basis for the intervention focused on personal assistants in the home service within a municipality in Sweden. The intervention was carried out using action research in on a series of workshops with a group of employees, managers, development leaders. Using a “stage” and “stands” theatre metaphor, employees engaged in collective, innovative learning “on the stage” combined with observations and reflections from managers and development leaders “in the stands”. This article contributes a method that can generate creative ideas among the employees and a model that can stimulate experience-based learning through observations. The intervention also shows that action research can be used to develop and test methods and models. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 9 UR - https://timreview.ca/article/1240 IS - 5 U1 - Halmstad University Mats Holmquist has a background in Sociology and is now Associate Professor in Work Science at Halmstad University in Sweden. At the university, he has been working with a multi-disciplinary research group on innovation with a societal perspective for many years and is now working with a newly started multi-disciplinary research group on sustainable work environments and health. His doctoral thesis was about learning networks as a social support in the development process and was presented at Luleå Technological University in 2010. His research focus is on learning, innovation, and sustainability in development processes in and between organizations. Currently, his research covers social entrepreneurs, social innovations, and social enterprises; project work and effects; local innovation system; as well as health innovation. U2 - Halmstad University Anna Johansson is a Lecturer at Halmstad University in Sweden. She holds a master’s degree in Work Science from Gothenburg University, and her thesis was on motives for working with gender within elderly care in the public sector. Currently, she is teaching in organizational change, work organization, and work environments. She is particularly interested in organizational change in public organizations. ER -