Accruing innovation in software firms through employees' commitment

A Survey on the Perception of Innovation in a Large Product-Focused Software Organization

“…The study further argued that this could be due the strong ties between communities and universities. Similarly, Nirjar [25] also performed a survey with 121 software companies across India to explore the impact of workforce commitment on the innovation capability of the software enterprises. The study findings highlighted that the commitment of the managers of software firms can significantly enhance the innovation productivity by creating certain policies (i.e.…”

“…Creating a more innovative organizational environment with committed employees is another way that can lead to more product innovations [24], as described by a respondent: "With a flexible and happy organization that makes people get looser boundaries I believe we can get a more innovative climate" Bringing people from different backgrounds and functional areas creates diversity and enables for new discussion to arise and to discuss ideas from new angles [4,18], or as put by the following respondent: "Connecting colleagues which hadn't possibility to communicate before allows to discuss more problems and ideas.". Calantone et al [4] adds that this cross-functional integration also allows for the employees to evolve their skills by learning and sharing knowledge amongst each other, which is important for product development.…”