Copyright: © 2017 INFORMS Abstract. The link between organizational structure and innovation has been a longstanding interest of organizational scholars, yet the exact nature of the relationship has not been clearly established. Drawing on the behavioral theory of the firm, we take a process view and examine how hierarchy of authority—a fundamental element of organizational structure reflecting...

Process innovation is vital, but paradoxical, requiring flexibility and empowerment, as well as control and efficiency. Increasingly, literatures stress organizational culture as a key to process innovation. Yet culture remains an intricate, amorphous phenomenon. In this article, we explore how organizational supportive culture – impact a particular process innovation, the implementation of adv...

This paper outlines the critical role of organizational culture in the link between the HR system and development of new products and services. While it has been generally accepted that an innovation-oriented HR system would lead to higher level of innovation, the literature does not lend full support to this link. This paper is to point out the inadequacy of such simplified view. It is suggest...

The purpose of this research article is to give a conceptual model of innovation management in food production industry in east of Asia. The researchers create and propose a conceptual model rooted in past research on innovation management, performance and organization culture (OC). The data for the research were obtained by surveys given to 168 Chinese, Taiwanese and Malaysian companies. Struc...

Through a series of structured interviews, university librarians at six institutions provided their perspectives on innovation in academic libraries. The literature on leadership styles and organizational change provides insight into the roles of these leaders in the innovation process. Leadership was cited by many researchers as being a critical factor for organizations to innovate. University...

Purpose – The relationship between overall innovation and innovation capability, and performance has been a topic of several earlier studies (Calantone et al., 2002; Cainelli et al., 2004; Keskin, 2006; Bowen et al., 2010; Jiménez-Jiménez and Sanz-Valle, 2011). However, the effects of the aspects of innovation capability on performance of a firm have stayed unfamiliar. The objective of this res...

The purpose of this paper is to develop the innovation system analysis by bringing together the “institutional” and “organizational” dimensions of the process of innovation at the firm level. The objective is to start elaborating a “systemic” theory of innovation in firms. The paper summons up the contributions and limits of “organizational” and “institutional” approaches to innovation. This pr...

This study examines climate for innovation as a method by which negative organizational consequences of demanding work may be lessened. It was expected that a climate for innovation would enable employees to develop coping mechanisms or improved work-related processes which counteract negative consequences of work demands. Extending the job demands–resource model (Karasek, 1979), we predicted a...

A theoretical framework model that researches the interrelationship of organizational innovation, organizational performance and dynamic core competence of enterprise (DCCE) is proposed on the foundation of the analysis of measure dimensions which include four oriented organizational innovations and the four sub-core capabilities of DCCE and the three levels of variables of performance. By usin...

A fundamental weakness of current research on corporate innovation communities is that knowledge about how to alter them for innovation endeavors remains vague. To help facilitate this gap, we analyze the influence of organizational contexts on innovation activities and outcomes from a contingency theory perspective. From the analysis of multiple in-depth case studies, four types of organizatio...