Crafting Firm Competencies to Improve Innovative Performance

Boris Lokshin, Anita van Gils () and Eva Bauer ()
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Anita van Gils: Maastricht University
Eva Bauer: BBDO Consulting

No 2008-009, MERIT Working Papers from United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT)

Abstract: Recent interdisciplinary research suggests that customer and technological competencies have a direct, unconditional effect on firms' innovative performance. This study extends this stream of literature by considering the effect of organizational competencies. Results from a survey-research executed in the fast moving consumer goods industry suggest that firms that craft organizational competencies - such as improving team cohesiveness and providing slack time to foster creativity - do not directly improve their innovative performance. However, those firms that successfully combine customer, technological and organizational competencies will create more innovations that are new to the market.

Keywords: Innovation; Research and Development; Consumer Goods; Product Innovation; Production Management; Personnel Management; Capability Building (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L68 M11 M12 O31 O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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