The role of context and structure in radical and incremental logistics innovation adoption

Germain, Richard

doi:10.1016/0148-2963(95)00053-4

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“…In this vein, authors such as Forsman and Annala (2011) and Levinthal and March (1993) state that incremental innovation performance is more common in small firms. Dewar and Dutton (1986) and Germain (1996) find that although size has a positive effect on radical process innovation performance, this effect is non-significant on incremental process innovation performance.…”

Section: Size and Innovation Performancementioning

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Does incremental and radical innovation performance depend on different types of knowledge accumulation capabilities and organizational size?

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Camisón

2016

Journal of Business Research

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Acknowledgement: The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from the National Plan for R&D of Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (ref. ECO2009-12522). HIGHLIGHTSØ Incremental innovation performance is positively affected by internal knowledge creation capability and absorptive capability.Ø Absorptive capability affects radical innovation performance positively.Ø Size has a direct positive effect on incremental innovation performance.Ø Size has a direct positive effect on internal knowledge creation capability. HOW DOES ORGANIZATIONAL SIZE IMPACT ON KNOWLEDGE ACCUMULATION CAPABILITIES AND INCREMENTAL VERSUS RADICAL INNOVATION PERFORMANCE?ABSTRACT While prior studies recognise the importance of knowledge accumulation capabilities in innovation performance, current research has still failed to empirically identify its role with regard to different types of innovation performance. The objective of this paper is to address this knowledge gap and to explore the relationships between internal knowledge creation and absorptive capabilities, and radical and incremental innovation performance. The study also contributes to analyzing the complex effect that organizational size has in the whole innovation process, influencing its antecedents (internal knowledge creation capability and absorptive capability) as well as its outputs (incremental and radical innovation performance), as the literature has produced inconsistent results and the issue is subject to continuing debate. This study demonstrates that incremental innovation performance is positively affected by both knowledge accumulation capabilities and size. However, results show that only absorptive capability has a positive direct effect on radical innovation performance, whereas size has a negative non-significant effect on it. The effect of size on knowledge accumulation capabilities also turns out to be mixed. It appears to increase internal knowledge creation capability, but it does not affect the absorption of new external knowledge, and thus does not help to develop radical innovations.

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Section: Size and Innovation Performancementioning

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Does incremental and radical innovation performance depend on different types of knowledge accumulation capabilities and organizational size?

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Camisón

2016

Journal of Business Research

408

269

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“…37 In studying logistics innovation adoption, Germain found that organizational size and environmental uncertainty predict expensive, radical innovations but not incremental innovation. 38 Damanpour reported that the effect of environmental uncertainty is significant for the size-innovation relationship and helps explain variance beyond control variables. 39 In a related study, 40 he also indicated that the relationship between bureaucratic control and innovation is less negative under conditions of high environmental uncertainty.…”

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The Determinants of Organizational Innovation: An Interpretation and Implications for Research Libraries

Jantz

2015

CRL

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The research reported here is focused on a specific type of change in an organization: an innovation. In an empirical analysis of research libraries, it was found that five factors had a significant impact on the innovation performance of the library. These factors relate to the strategy, organizational structure, and leadership of the research library. The study sample consisted of 50 libraries that were members of the Association of Research Libraries. This paper will discuss the theoretical model, explain the effects of these five variables, highlight certain additional correlations that are meaningful, and discuss implications for research libraries.

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“…Further suggestions for these subdimensions are presented by Aiken and Hage (1971) and include decentralization, formalization, professionalism, complexity and scheduled and unscheduled communication. In an investigation into the role played by organizational structure in innovation in logistics, Germain (1996) too includes specialization and decentralization; and makes the addition of 'integration' to the list of subcategories. An investigation on the topic of organizational structure and its link to product customization by Vickery et al (1999) utilized the subdimensions of operations decentralization, focus on formal control, spans of control and layers.…”

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The impact of organizational structure on management innovation: an empirical research in Turkey

Kalay¹

2016

Pressacademia

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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of the two core components of organizational structure, centralization and formalization, on management innovation. In order to do this, the data received from 198 managers working in a public organization in Turkey has been analyzed. The results of this analysis have demonstrated that centralization has a significant negative impact on management innovation. However, the impact of formalization on management innovation has not been determined.

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The role of context and structure in radical and incremental logistics innovation adoption

Cited by 165 publications

References 31 publications

Does incremental and radical innovation performance depend on different types of knowledge accumulation capabilities and organizational size?

Does incremental and radical innovation performance depend on different types of knowledge accumulation capabilities and organizational size?

The Determinants of Organizational Innovation: An Interpretation and Implications for Research Libraries

The impact of organizational structure on management innovation: an empirical research in Turkey

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