Employee innovativeness in organizations: a review of the antecedents

This article presents a review of recent research on factors that influence employee innovativeness at the workplace. Based on a literature search on 15 peer-reviewed journals published during the period 2000–2005 and other relevant materials, it summarizes and discusses individual, job, team and organizational level factors that have been found to influence innovativeness in organizations. The article concludes with an evaluation of the current state of innovativeness research.