What do transition organizations lack to be innovative?

Abstract

PurposeInnovativeness is probably the most effective way for organizations in the transition economies to improve their competitiveness. The purpose of this research is to find those factors, which significantly contribute to the innovativeness of organizations in the oldest market‐based economies but they have not been developed in the transition organizations.Design/methodology/approachA range of recently published works, which aimed to provide different theoretical findings and best practice of innovative economies highlighted organizational culture, entrepreneurship and market orientation as the most important factors influencing the organizational innovation intensity and sustained competitive advantage. These factors and their relationships together with the characteristics of the transition economies were applied to put hypotheses about their impact on innovation intensity in the transition organizations. The structural equation modeling was used to test these hypotheses on the sample of 214 Slovenian organizations.FindingsThe comparison of both innovation models, i.e. one significant for the innovative organizations, and the other found for the transition organizations showed that innovative organizational culture and market orientation have been the most important missing factors preventing the transition organizations from being innovative and thus achieving the sustained competitive advantage.Research limitations/implicationsData collection was limited to one country, i.e. Slovenia.Practical implicationsThe results obtained show that organizations cannot be innovative if all the most important factors influencing the innovation capability are not equally developed.Originality/valueThe missing factors and relations which have been the main obstacles for the transition organizations to be more innovative are found by benchmarking based on the structural equation modeling.

The main aspects of the application of educational technologies in the study process

“…Innovative activity of teachers of the higher education institution is treated as a process specifically directed toward the establishment, adoption, implementation and application of educational innovations at different stakeholders' level aimed to improve the educational systems, and is related to various innovation implementation stages: innovation building and implementation of new technological processes (Bastic & Leskovar-Spacapan, 2006). According to the researchers, the focus in the teachers' activity is given to the search for a new information, knowledge, methods and new measures.…”

An examination of the relationships among market orientation, innovation resources, reputational resources, and company performance in the transitional economy of Slovenia

“…Consequently, few studies conducted in Slovenia have examined the relationship between marketing resources and company performance (e.g., market orientation/performance, innovation resources/performance, corporate reputation/ performance; Bastic & Leskovar-Spacapan, 2006;Snoj, Gabrijan, Mumel, Pisnik-Korda, & Petejan, 2004;Snoj & Hudoklin, 2006).…”

Designing an Organization for Innovation in Emerging Economies: the Mediating Role of Readiness for Innovation

“…Martínez-Román et al 2011pointed towards the complex nature of innovation, which Ahmed & Shepherd (2010) agreed with arguing that innovation has been misinterpreted at times. Therefore, in order to clarify the different types of innovation, Bastic and Leskovar-Spacapan (2006) explained that the complexities arise because there are different facets of innovation, such as product, market, technological, process and organizational, that make innovation difficult to measure. Lack of common consensus on innovation has therefore led to its diverse operationalization, particularly in development of quantitative measures of innovation.…”