Analysis of innovation in SMEs using an innovative capability-based non-linear model: A study in the province of Seville (Spain)

Management control systems in innovation companies: a literature based framework

“…Spanish SMEs showed that decentralisation is a significant influential factor for innovation outcomes (Martínez-Román et al 2011). Hence, although decentralisation may be related to firm size (Pugh et al 1969), it is included as a separate contingency factor, in order to account for different decentralisation tendencies expected for innovation companies independently from their firm size.…”

“…For instance, the importance of control through the expenditure budget 14 rises with the size of R&D work groups, increasing external R&D funding and increasing budget size (Rockness and Shields 1988). In his study of MCSs in new product development 12 For a review of the concept of innovative capability see Martínez-Román et al (2011). 13 The fourth component of this original measure, human resource management (HRM), is not used in this framework in order to avoid any collinearity problems with the construct of personnel control.…”

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“…Some of the most common organizational dimensions are: leadership, strategy, organizational structure, culture, processes, and human resources. Examples of organizational dimensions related to innovation capability can be found in Branzei and Vertinsky (2006), Laforet and Tann (2006), Martínez-Román et al (2011), Narcizo et al (2013) and Perdomo-Ortiz, González-Benito, and Galende (2006).…”

“…Complementary to this idea is the suggestion that innovation capability is some type of organizational ability Lerro et al 2009;Olsson et al, 2010;Ottaviano, 2004;Romijn & Albaladejo, 2002;Rangone, 1999;Santos-Vijande, 2013;and Wonglimpiyarat, 2010). Both these perspectives are relevant and imply that innovation capability is related to the internal organizational environment in terms of experimentation, learning, adaptation, heuristics, and know-how , reinforcing an alignment with the Resource-Based View and Evolutionary Theories (Martínez-Román et al, 2011;Som et al, 2010).…”

How to Foster Innovation? Findings and Hypotheses for Collaborations Between Research and Industry

“…The content of the different levels within the proposed model was derived from extensive literature review (Neely et al, 2001;Akman and Yilmaz, 2008;Forsman, 2011;Martínez-Román et al, 2011) and interviews in SMEs. In particular, approaches and models for assessing and promoting the innovation capability of enterprises have been considered.…”