Strategy, Corporate Culture, Structure and Operational Processes as the Context for the Innovativeness of an Organization

Szczepańska-Woszczyna Katarzyna ()
Additional contact information
Szczepańska-Woszczyna Katarzyna: The University of Dąbrowa Górnicza, Faculty of Applied Sciences Department of Management, Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland

Foundations of Management, 2018, vol. 10, issue 1, 33-44

Abstract: The paper refers to relationships between the innovativeness of an organization and its selected determinants such as strategy, corporate culture, structure and operational processes. Research was conducted among 200 managers at the top, middle and operational levels of management (200 companies operating in Poland implementing innovations - innovative companies). Conditions leading to innovations are described as the combination of processes, which result from the internal and external dynamics of a given entity. The analysis assumed that the assessment of company innovativeness would be based on an assessment of whether the company is a leader in the industry in terms of new products (the higher the rating, the more innovative the company is considered to be). The relationship between the dimensions of the company's functioning and the degree of its innovativeness was rated on the basis of two measures: the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient and the chi-square coefficient. It was assumed that the most innovative companies have structures similar to organic ones, with a weak influence of the elements of mechanistic structures. This assumption was proven in relation to features of organizations considered important for innovativeness.

Keywords: innovation; innovativeness; strategy; structure; corporate culture; operational processes; innovation determinants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.2478/fman-2018-0004 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:vrs:founma:v:10:y:2018:i:1:p:1-12:n:4

DOI: 10.2478/fman-2018-0004

Access Statistics for this article

Foundations of Management is currently edited by Tadeusz Krupa

More articles in Foundations of Management from Sciendo
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Peter Golla ().