UNDERSTANDING THE DRIVERS OF RADICAL AND INCREMENTAL INNOVATION PERFORMANCE: THE ROLE OF A FIRM’S KNOWLEDGE-BASED CAPITAL AND ORGANISATIONAL AGILITY

Sebastian Eisele, Andrea Greven, Mareike Grimm, Denise Fischer-Kreer and Malte Brettel
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Sebastian Eisele: Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group (WIN) – TIME Research Area, RWTH Aachen University, Kackertstr. 7, 52072 Aachen, Germany
Andrea Greven: ��Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group, WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Campus Vallendar, Burgplatz 2, 56179 Vallendar, Germany
Mareike Grimm: Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group (WIN) – TIME Research Area, RWTH Aachen University, Kackertstr. 7, 52072 Aachen, Germany
Denise Fischer-Kreer: Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group (WIN) – TIME Research Area, RWTH Aachen University, Kackertstr. 7, 52072 Aachen, Germany
Malte Brettel: Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group (WIN) – TIME Research Area, RWTH Aachen University, Kackertstr. 7, 52072 Aachen, Germany

International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), 2022, vol. 26, issue 02, 1-40

Abstract: Organisational agility, a specific dynamic capability, constitutes a key success factor in today’s dynamic business environments. However, it is unclear whether and how firms’ knowledge-based capital enables organisational agility. Moreover, mechanisms through which organisational agility translates knowledge-based capital into innovation performance are poorly understood. This study fills these gaps by investigating direct effects of knowledge-based capital (i.e., human, social, and organisational capital) on organisational agility and, in turn, indirect effects on radical and incremental innovation performance. Leveraging survey data from 385 German firms, this study contributes to the organisational agility and the strategic innovation management literature. First, our analysis validates human and social capital as antecedents of organisational agility, yielding evidence for the premises of the knowledge-based view in a novel context. Second, it substantiates the dynamic capability view as a pivotal theoretical lens for explaining the mechanisms underlying the relationships between firms’ knowledge-based capital, organisational agility, and incremental innovation performance.

Keywords: Knowledge-based capital; organisational agility; radical and incremental innovation performance; dynamic capability view; knowledge-based view (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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