Innovative behavior and career development of managers in Russian business organizations: Empirical studies
The regular scientific seminar of the International Laboratory for Socio-Cultural Research took place on 31st May. The lecturer was Pavel Sorokin, researcher at the Center for Study of Social Organization of a Firm in Higher School of Economics.
His presentation was called “Innovative behavior and career development of managers in Russian business organizations: Empirical studies”.
The report focused on the topical problem of Russian business - innovations and their impact on the development of business. Authors of the research propounded two main criteria of innovation in business: firstly, innovation is always changing, and secondly, it is qualitative improve. Innovative behavior is fixed at the level of individual attitudes and values which determine the development of innovations in business structures, and innovative characteristics of managers are especially important for this development.
Pavel Sorokin presented the results of empirical studies conducted in 2008-2009 and 2011-2012. The sample of the research was more than three thousand people. In the first wave of the study sample included respondents from 14 regions of Russia. Using the results of empirical studies and theoretical analysis, the author tries to find out if the individual characteristics of the innovation are important for the career development. Empirical study demonstrated interesting results. On the one hand, it showed the growth of the importance of innovative and creative characteristics and, on the other hand, the decrease of the importance of professionalism.
Comparison of managers’ responses from two waves of the study demonstrated, according to the author, an antagonism or building up conflicting factors in the business. Regression and factor analysis also showed the appearance of antagonism. Despite of that, the raise of significance of innovative criteria assures us that this controversy will be negotiated.