A study of the relationship between team innovation and organizational innovation in high tech industry

The increasingly complex environment, development of technology-based products, and customization of demand challenge the reaction speed of the enterprise; for the success of organizational management, the teams usually reform the enterprise, create new ideas, produce innovative models with better results, and thus make important contributions to the organization through the use of internal operations and organizational culture attribution. Through a literature 1 Graduate School of Business and Operations Management, Chang Jung Christian University, Tainan City 71101, Taiwan (R.O.C.), e-mail : [email protected] 2 Graduate School of Business and Operations Management, Chang Jung Christian University, Tainan City 71101, Taiwan (R.O.C.), e-mail : [email protected] * Corresponding author. 3 Graduate School of Business and Operations Management, Chang Jung Christian University, Taichung City 423, Taiwan (R.O.C.), e-mail : [email protected] 4 EMBA, Executive Master of Business Administration, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City 701, Taiwan (R.O.C.). Article Info: Received : March 8, 2012. Revised : May 2, 2012 Published online : May 31, 2012 20 A relationship between team and organizational innovation in the high-tech industry... review and statistical analysis, this study has developed a team innovation scale, organizational culture scale, and organizational innovation scale with good reliability and validity; the high-tech industry employees in Taiwan were used as subjects, and 215 questionnaires were issued through purposive sampling. In total, 175 valid questionnaires were collected (81%). Statistical methods such as regression analysis, hierarchical regression analysis, and others were used to verify the assumptions in this study. The study concluded the following: 1) team innovation has a significant and positive relationship with organizational innovation, 2) organizational culture has a significant and positive relationship with organizational innovation, and 3) team innovation has a significant and positive impact on organizational innovation due to the moderating effects of the organizational culture. JEL classification numbers: M54