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Cornelius, Philipp B. ORCID: 0000-0003-4286-8556, Gokpinar, Bilal and Sting, Fabian J. (2021). Sparking Manufacturing Innovation: How Temporary Interplant Assignments Increase Employee Idea Values. Manage. Sci., 67 (4). S. 2231 - 2251. CATONSVILLE: INFORMS. ISSN 1526-5501

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Abstract

Shop-floor employees play a key role in manufacturing innovation. In some companies, up to 75% of all productivity gains are the result of bottom-up employee ideas. In this paper, we examine how employee interplant assignments-short problem-solving jobs at other manufacturing plants within the same firm-influence employee-driven manufacturing innovation. Using unique idea-level data from a large European car parts manufacturer, we show that interplant assignments significantly increase the value of employees' improvement ideas due to the short-term transfer of production knowledge and long-term employee learning. Both effects are amplified by assignments to plants that have high functional overlap (i.e., plants producing similar products using similar processes and machinery). One implication is that, for the purpose of employee-driven manufacturing innovation, assignments between peripheral plants with high functional overlap can be more effective than assignments to and from central plants. These findings are robust to several econometric tests. Our study provides novel and detailed empirical evidence of manufacturing innovation, and goes beyond previous research on the learning curve (learning by doing) by investigating how interplant assignments affect the value of employees' improvement ideas (learning by moving).

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Cornelius, Philipp B. UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-4286-8556 UNSPECIFIED Gokpinar, Bilal UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Sting, Fabian J. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-583279
DOI:	10.1287/mnsc.2020.3673
Journal or Publication Title:	Manage. Sci.
Volume:	67
Number:	4
Page Range:	S. 2231 - 2251
Date:	2021
Publisher:	INFORMS
Place of Publication:	CATONSVILLE
ISSN:	1526-5501
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; SPIN-OUTS; MOBILITY; INTEGRATION; PERFORMANCE; EXPERIENCE; FRAMEWORK; QUALITY; INTERDEPENDENCE Multiple languages Management; Operations Research & Management Science Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/58327