The paper aims to recognize whether family firms that introduce the creative ideas of their employees are more innovative than the other family firms, i.e. if they introduce more products, processes, marketing, and organizational innovations. Moreover, it explores the relationship between the innovation of family businesses and their involvement in activities that stimulate innovative thinking by building a trusting workplace climate, driving employees’ development, and supporting team integration. The study is based on the primary research which was conducted in Poland on a sample of 353 family firms. The statistical analysis of the research results shows that family firms that implement the creative solutions of their employees introduce significantly more product innovations than other family businesses. However, there are no differences between these two groups of family firms regarding organizational, process, and marketing innovations. Our analysis also revealed that: (i) supporting employee development is an independent factor influencing the product, process and organizational innovation of family businesses; and that (ii) building team integration by the company is an independent factor that impacts process innovation.

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波兰家族企业的创新。探索激发创新思维的员工创造力和管理实践

本文旨在认识到引入雇员创新思想的家族企业是否比其他家族企业更具创新性，即是否引入了更多的产品，流程，市场营销和组织创新。此外，它通过建立可信赖的工作环境，推动员工发展并支持团队整合，探索家族企业的创新与其参与激发创新思维的活动之间的关系。该研究基于波兰对353家家族企业进行的初步研究。研究结果的统计分析表明，实施员工创意解决方案的家族企业比其他家族企业引入了更多的产品创新。然而，这两组家族企业在组织，流程和营销创新方面没有区别。我们的分析还显示：（i）支持员工发展是影响家族企业的产品，流程和组织创新的独立因素；（ii）公司建立团队整合是影响流程创新的独立因素。