THE ABILITY TO INTEGRATE DIFFERENT TYPES OF KNOWLEDGE AND ITS EFFECT ON INNOVATION PERFORMANCE

Jonas Rundquist ()
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Jonas Rundquist: School of Business and Engineering, Halmstad University, SE-301 18, Halmstad, Sweden

International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), 2012, vol. 16, issue 02, pages 1250014-1-1250014-32

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of a firm's ability to integrate knowledge on their innovation performance, in order to help firm's prioritise their resources, used for knowledge integration, more effectively. Data were collected from a survey mailed to R&D managers in firms with between 100–1,000 employees in a cross-section of industries. Five hypotheses were tested using multiple regression analysis with and without interaction terms. The results indicate that a categorisation of knowledge is useful for understanding knowledge integration. The study also shows that the ability to integrate domain-specific knowledge is significantly related to innovation performance. Furthermore, the results indicate that technology turbulence in the industry has a positive moderating effect on the above relation. Managerial implications suggest how managers can focus their efforts in order to effectively integrate knowledge in product development projects.

Keywords: Knowledge integration; innovation performance; product innovation; knowledge framework; medium-sized firms; regression analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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