We are “not” too (young/old) to collaborate : Prominent Key Barriers to Intergenerational Innovation
Nurhas, I., Aditya, B. R., Geisler, S., Ojala, A., & Pawlowski, J. (2019). We are “not” too (young/old) to collaborate : Prominent Key Barriers to Intergenerational Innovation. In PACIS 2019 : Proceedings of the 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems. Barriers to Intergenerational Innovation in Global Context (In Press). Association for Information Systems.
Date
2019Discipline
TietojärjestelmätiedeCopyright
© the Authors, 2019.
In this study, we analyzed the barriers to technology-supported intergenerational
innovation to understand better how young and old can collaborate towards global
innovations. Researchers in different disciplines have already identified various
barriers to intergenerational collaboration. However, barriers are changing
depending on the context of collaboration, and difficulties still exist to support
intergenerational innovation in global settings. Therefore, we investigated the
barriers that emerge when people work with someone decades older or younger. The
results of our study have shown what barriers are influenced by age, what barriers
exist only for senior and younger adults. The study theoretically contributes to
deepening the Information Systems (IS) community's understanding of the barriers to
intergenerational innovation that need to be considered when developing systems for
global innovation.