This study of the path-dependent nature of innovation examines momentum processes in organizations. The traditional momentum literature argues that innovation experience creates organizational routines that increase the propensity to introduce innovations of the same type. Empirical research has found support for this acceleration form of momentum. More recent work raises methodological concern...

Organizational social networks (OVSN) are socio-technical artifacts, based on social networks that allow the development of relationships between people in organizations. Our assumption is that OSVN are capable of fostering organizational innovation. Organizational innovation means the creation and adoption of new products, processes and methods and its relation with OVSN is not yet well develo...

the aim of this study was to determine the structural equation model of knowledge management and organizational innovation. the statistical population consisted of all employees of sport and youth offices in khorasan razavi province (n=380). the sample was selected by simple random sampling method using morgan table (n=191). to collect data, two questionnaires of knowledge management (sheron an...

The globalization of competition has entailed that organizations of developed countries have to face new kinds of competitors with low labor cost and often advantageous exchange rates (resulting in favorable export selling prices). In such a scenario, innovation and organizational flexibility are becoming fundamental levers to enable enterprises to increase their competitiveness. For this reaso...

Knowledge sharing and absorption are required to achieve and sustain competitive advantage. Firms’ dynamic capabilities assist in mediating the effects of knowledge sharing and absorption on organizational innovation performance. Therefore, this study proposed a conceptual model to investigate the relationships among knowledge sharing capability, absorptive capability, dynamic capability, and o...

For managers, innovation is vital, but paradoxical, requiring flexibility and empowerment, as well as control and efficiency. Increasingly, studies stress organizational culture as a key to managing innovation. Yet innovation-supportive culture remains an intricate and amorphous phenomenon. In response, we explore how organizational values – a foundational building block of culture – impact a p...

This paper summarizes the experience gained in dealing with resistance to change appeared in the companies when they develop innovative processes related to the adoption of new technologies, tools, equipment, infrastructure and methodologies. Technological innovation is rapidly absorbed by society on a personal level. But at the enterprise level, resistance to innovation can occur at any hierar...

One of the most important factors challenging the survival of organizations in this competitive environment is innovation performance that is under control of organizational slack. The present research aims at showing that organizational slack has an optimal amount and because of its U-shaped format in its relationship with innovation performance, investment more or less than this optimal point...

We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms’ ability to adapt their organizational processes and structures. Starting from complexity theory, we use three consecutive waves of the German part of the Community Innovation Survey to test our hypotheses. We find an inverted u-shape of innovation off-shoring on the effectiveness of organizational adaptability,...