Exploring Climate for Innovation in the Telecommunications Industry in an Emerging Market Context

Rasha El Gendi^1, and Moira Clark²

¹School of Business, The Knowledge Hub Universities-Coventry Branch, Cairo, Egypt

²Henley Business School, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

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Rasha El Gendi and Moira Clark. Exploring Climate for Innovation in the Telecommunications Industry in an Emerging Market Context. Journal of Business and Management Sciences. 2023; 11(4):254-265. doi: 10.12691/JBMS-11-4-5

Abstract

Innovation management has aroused interest of practitioners and researchers in recent years. It is crucial for organisations to create and foster a climate for innovation to enhance employees’ innovativeness. It is important to identify the practices, policies and procedures that enable organisations to implement new ideas. Thus, the aim of this research is to investigate and identify dimensions of climate for innovation within an emerging market, namely the Egyptian telecommunications industry. This study contributes to the innovation management literature by identifying further dimensions of climate for innovation that foster organisation innovativeness in a real-life setting.

Keywords

Climate for innovation, organisation innovation, leadership, Telecommunications

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