INTERORGANISATIONAL COLLABORATION FOR INNOVATION IMPROVEMENT IN MANUFACTURING FIRMS’S: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF SOCIAL PERFORMANCE

Usama Awan and Robert Sroufe ()
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Usama Awan: Industrial Engineering and Management, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland
Robert Sroufe: #x2020;Donahue Graduate School of Business, Duquesne University, 820 Rockwell Hall, 600 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), 2019, vol. 24, issue 05, 1-23

Abstract: The impact of collaboration on innovation performance has been investigated in many studies. This study provides a unique view on innovation performance by exploring the mediating role of social performance between collaboration and innovation performance. For this, a structural model was tested through an empirical investigation with partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) using a sample made up of 239 export manufacturing firms. The results of the empirical study show that social performance appears to be a necessary condition for innovation performance. Our findings confirm the great potential of addressing social concern increasingly drive innovation performance. The next decade is likely to be a period of rapidly expanding social performance practices in the manufacturing firms. The managers could foster sustainable innovation by collaborating customers and enhance their firm social performance.

Keywords: Collaboration; innovation performance; social performance; export manufacturing firms; partial least squares (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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