Intrinsic Motivation vs. Extrinsic Motivation: From Idea Generation to Implementation

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To sustain organizational competitiveness, organizations must recognize the central importance of innovation and its implementation. Because teams are essential sources of innovation, this paper explores how intrinsic and extrinsic motivations influence affective and normative organizational commitments when teams engage in bottom-up innovation that leads to actual implementation. Given the growing recognition of the importance of team-level innovation processes, this study also delves into how various types of motivation can advance team-level innovation processes from idea generation to implementation. A sample of 60 teams from various organizations indicates that when teams utilize extrinsically driven idea generation, they form affective and normative commitments to implementing innovations. However, when teams utilize intrinsically driven idea generation, they establish normative commitments for innovation implementation. The empirical findings indicate that extrinsically driven idea generation may have a stronger influence on establishing commitments to an idea, thereby leading to its implementation. By showing that team-level motivation to implement innovations may function differently from individual-level motivation, this paper explains how to manage teams’ motivation to implement effective innovations.