Measuring Malevolent Innovation: When harmful ideas are acted upon

Have you ever wonder how harmful ideas got generated and acted upon? For example, how do people manage to came up with ideas for fraud and get to implement it? how do people get to abuse their subordinates? These harmful ideas—fraud and abuse—are not always implemented (fortunately!); but it does happen that they get acted upon.

In this article, Yiting Wang, Eric F. Rietzschel, and Barbara Wisse introduced malevolent innovation, which highlights the behavior of generating, championing, and implementing creative ideas, while being fully aware of its potential harm to individuals, organizations, and broader society. Along the way, you will learn the stages through which malevolent innovation occurs,  the importance of having this concept measured, and a way to measure malevolent innovation. 

Checkout their article: Malevolent innovation: A synthesized theoretical model and a measurement tool.