ORGANISATIONAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION AND THE MODERATING EFFECT OF OPEN INNOVATION STRATEGIES

Achim Hecker and Alois Ganter
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Achim Hecker: University Seeburg Castle, Seeburgstr. 8, 5201 Seekirchen am Wallersee/Salzburg, Austria
Alois Ganter: University Seeburg Castle, Seeburgstr. 8, 5201 Seekirchen am Wallersee/Salzburg, Austria

International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), 2016, vol. 20, issue 02, 1-31

Abstract: This paper distinguishes three types of organisational innovation — those in a firm’s knowledge management, workplace, and external relations — and studies their impact on firms’ technological innovation performance. Special attention is paid to the openness and external orientation of a firm’s R&D activities as factor moderating the relationship between organisational and technological innovation. Drawing on the fourth wave of the German part of the Community Innovation Survey (CIS IV), this study shows that organisational innovation acts as an important facilitator of new process (but not product) development. Organisational innovations furthermore prove to be complements (but in some cases also substitutes) to external knowledge sourcing and open innovation strategies.

Keywords: Open innovation; organisational innovation; management innovation; product innovation; process innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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