The Impact of Institutional Creativity and Innovation Capability on Innovation Performance of Public Sector Organizations in Ghana

John Coffie Azamela, Zhiwei Tang, Ackah Owusu, Sulemana Bankuoru Egala and Emmanuel Bruce
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John Coffie Azamela: School of Management and Economics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, No. 2006, Xiyuan Ave. West High-Tech Zone, Chengdu 611731, China
Zhiwei Tang: School of Management and Economics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, No. 2006, Xiyuan Ave. West High-Tech Zone, Chengdu 611731, China
Ackah Owusu: School of Management and Economics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, No. 2006, Xiyuan Ave. West High-Tech Zone, Chengdu 611731, China
Sulemana Bankuoru Egala: School of Management and Economics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, No. 2006, Xiyuan Ave. West High-Tech Zone, Chengdu 611731, China
Emmanuel Bruce: School of Management and Economics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, No. 2006, Xiyuan Ave. West High-Tech Zone, Chengdu 611731, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 3, 1-18

Abstract: The public sector continues to be under intense pressure to improve its innovation performance. Consequently, stakeholders are calling for more empirical studies on the antecedents of innovation, especially from a developing country’s perspective. Motivated by this call, we investigate the impact of institutional creativity and institutional innovation capacity on public innovation performance in the context of Ghana. Key to our model is that, institutional creativity and institutional innovation capacity are also enabled by inter-agency collaborations, institutional leadership, and stakeholder pressure. The partial least squares structural equation model is employed to estimate the survey responses of 195 respondents from fifty public sector institutions. The empirical analysis confirms that organizational creativity has a positive and significant impact on innovation performance, innovation capacity has a negative and insignificant impact on innovation performance, and inter-agency collaboration and institutional leadership contribute positively to institutional creativity and innovation capacity. However, stakeholder pressure negatively impacts both institutional creativity and innovation performance. This study contributes to knowledge on the antecedents of public innovation performance from a developing country’s perspective. It also advances theories on public innovation performance.

Keywords: public innovation performance; institutional creativity; institutional innovation capacity; institutional leadership; inter-agency collaboration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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