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Essmann, Heinz Erich. "Toward innovation capability maturity." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1308.
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Thesis (PhD (Industrial Engineering))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research has its roots in Industrial Engineering, where the premise of improving and managing efficiency, effectiveness, productivity and quality is the most common and accepted source of organisational sustenance and furtherance. This dissertation, however, addresses the evolutionary and revolutionary imperatives of a new paradigm for competitive advantage – innovation. The notion of innovation is considered many things. First and foremost, however, it has become the primary differentiator of organisational competitiveness, rendering it the source of sustained long-term prosperity. What may seem ambiguous in the title of this dissertation is essentially the imperative of every organisation functioning within the competitive domain. Where organisational maturity and innovativeness were traditionally considered antonymous, the assimilation of these two seemingly contradictory notions is fundamental to the assurance of long-term organisational prosperity. Organisations are required, now more than ever, to grow and mature their innovation capability. In working towards the fulfilment of this objective, the Maturity Modelling approach was recognised for its ability to describe organisational progression in terms of innovation capability. An Innovation Capability Maturity Model, with the intention of describing generic and evolutionary plateaus of innovation capability maturity, was developed from a comprehensive literature study. This model was evaluated with an initial case study which led to a rigorous refinement initiative that included further literature study, a mapping and comparison exercise, and a detailed analysis of innovation capability themes using a Latent Dirichlet Allocation-based topic modelling approach. The consolidation of these activities and integration with the initial model resulted in the second version thereof – ICMM v2. This second version was then utilised in an additional 5 case studies that would serve to evaluate and validate the content and structure thereof, but also make a fundamental contribution to the application of the model – captured in the so called Innovation Capability Improvement Methodology. The case studies provide evidence that the content and structure of the ICMM v2, including the approach used to convey these aspects, fulfil their intended purpose by appropriately identifying the innovation capability strengths and weaknesses of the represented organisations. The ICMM v2 and accompanying methodology provides an organisation with a systematic approach for identifying organisational innovation capability strengths and weaknesses and a framework for identifying and prioritising innovation capability improvement opportunities in an organised and coordinated manner. This dissertation concludes with a few fundamental findings pertaining to innovation and a discussion of potential future collaboration and research opportunities.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie navorsingsprojek het sy oorsprong binne die bedryfsingenieursdomain. Bedryfsingenieurswese is primêr gerig op die verbetering en bestuur van doelmatigheid, doeltreffendheid, produktiwiteit en gehalte. Dit is voorts „n vry-algemeen aanvaarde bron van organisatoriese volhoubaarheid en verbetering van maatskappye. Hierdie navorsingsverslag spreek die evolusionêre en revolusionêre vereistes van „n nuwe paradigme vir mededingendheid, naamlik innovasie, aan. Die term innovasie beteken verskillende dinge vir verskillende mense. Dit is sedert die 1930‟s intensief nagevors. Meer onlangs het innovasie ontwikkel tot „n primêre onderskeider van maatskappy-mededingendheid. Dit is vinnig besig om te ontwikkel in „n sleutelbron van volhoubare, langtermyn welvaartskepping. Die titel van hierdie proefskrif mag aanvangklik dubbelsinnig klink, maar dit beskryf eintlik die fundamentele vereistes van elke organisasie wat binne die mededingendheidsdomain funksioneer. Aanvanklik is innovasie en organisatoriese volwassenheid as teenstrydige konsepte beskou. Die versoening van hierdie twee oënskynlike teenstrydige konsepte is egter fundamenteel tot die ontwikkeling van langtermyn organisatoriese mededingendheid en gepaargaande welvaart. Mededingendheid word tans verseker deur die tempo en volhoubaarheid waarmee maatskappye hulle innovasie-vermoeë beoefen en uitbou. Die konsep van volwassenheidsmodelering is identifiseer as „n belangrike element om die innovasie volwassenheid van maatskappye volledig uit te bou, asook om organisatoriese groei in ten opsigte van innovasie-vermoeëns te beskryf. „n Eerste orde innovasie-vermoeë volwassenheidsmodel (ICMM v1) is met behulp van „n uitgebreide literatuur-ondersoek ontwikkel. Hierdie model het ten doel gehad om generiese en evolusionêre plateau‟s van innovasie-vermoeë volwassenheid te beskryf. Die aanvanklike model is geëvalueer met „n gevallestudie waarna dit drasties verfyn is, deur gebruik te maak van „n sekondêre literatuurstudie, die kartering en „n vergelykende evaluering, asook „n gedetailleerde ontleding van innovasie-vermoeë tema‟s. Dit is gedoen deur gebruik te maak van “Latent Dirichlet Allocation”-gebaseerde konsepmodellering. Hierdie aktiwiteite is gekonsolideer en geintegreer met die eerste model in „n weergawe twee, wat bekend staan as ICMM v2. Hierdie weergawe is verder ontplooi in vyf opvolg-gevallestudies wat gebruik is. Die doel hiervan was om die nuwe model te evalueer en valideer ten opsigte van die inhoud en struktuur daarvan. Voorts het die ook „n fundamentele bydra gemaak tot die toepassing van die model waartydens resulutate van die model vervat is in „n sogenaamde innovasie-vermoeë verbeterings metodologie. Die onderskeie gevallestudies het bevestig dat die inhoud en die struktuur van die ICMM v2 hulle aanvanklike doelwitte volledig bereik het deur beide die innovasie-vermoeë sterkpunte en swakpunte van die organisasies te identifiseer en uit te lig. Die ICMM v2 en gepaardgaande metodologie bied aan „n organisasie „n sistematiese benadering tot die identifisering van organisatoriese innovasie-vermoeë sterkpunte en swakpunte. Dit voorsien verder „n raamwerk vir die identifisering en prioritisering van innovasie-vermoeë verbeterings geleenthede binne maatskappye. Hierdie proefskrif word afgesluit met „n aantal fundamentele bevindings met betrekking tot innovasie en „n bespreking van toekomstige samewerking ten opsigte van navorsingsgeleenthede.
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Jahid, Jamshid, and Jakob Melander. "Innovation Capability in Project-based Organisations : Development and Validation of a Holistic Innovation Capability Assessment Framework (HICAF)." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för informations- och kommunikationssystem, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-27916.
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Innovation is one of the most important factors behind today´s global economic growth and prosperity. In the current economic climate, increasing global competition and rapidly changing environment, an organisations ability to innovate is regarded as a key factor for success. It is widely accepted that creating new processes, products and procedures are vital for productivity and growth in all sectors. The literature on innovation measurements areas and utilities is voluminous and diverse. Assessing and measuring the complex conditions that influence a firm’s innovation capability is a challenging task, due to the inconsistency, inaccessibility, and complexity of measures. An integrative and holistic innovation capability assessment framework should include all aspects of innovation. This study attempt to address this gap, the lack of a holistic innovation capability assessment framework (HICAF) in project-based firms, by (a) reviewing the literature on innovation, innovation assessment, and measurement areas (b) through a qualitative case study exploring the factors promoting innovation in project-based firms (c) integrating the findings into a holistic assessment framework (d) generating items, in form of a statement, to address the underlying construct of each identified factor (e) applying the proposed framework within an organisation and statistically validating the instrument to achieve item homogeneity. Internal consistency reliability estimates have been utilized to produce a final framework consisting of 57 statistically validated items and eight theoretically grounded categories with 19 corresponding factors promoting innovation, also called enablers, in technology-orientated project-based organisations. In addition to the identified literature findings, the case study resulted in two new enablers, time management, and quality, which are not necessarily specific for project-based organisations, rather specific for the observed organisation. The performed case study is insufficient for determining whether there are any specific enablers for project-based organisations. The advantages of HICAF lies in its simplicity due to practical applicability in a large scale and facilitates managers to diagnose the organisation and recognize true symptoms to then apply appropriate treatment and remedies. A frequent application of HICAF can also help to study the effect of specific treatment and remedies in relation to innovation capability.
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Francis, David Louis. "Assessing and improving innovation capability in organisations." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.341281.
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TORELL, LINA. "Innovation Capability at Electrolux : Screening of innovation challengesand development of action plan." Thesis, KTH, Maskinkonstruktion (Inst.), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-142547.
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Detta Examensarbete studerar innovationsarbetet i ett team på Electrolux som verkar inomForskning och Utveckling (FoU). Studien strävar efter att identifiera innovationsutmaningaroch aktiviteter i syfte att öka innovationsförmågan inom teamet. Den metod som tillämpas istudien är samma som används i PIEp’s Innovationspilots process. PIEp (Product InnovationEngineering program) är ett svenskt forsknings- och förändringsprogram som syftar till attöka innovationsförmåga hos människor och organisationer. Metodiken som används ärindelad i en genomlysning av företagets innovationsarbete och initiering av enförändringsprocess. Den första delen är en analys som utförs genom enkäter och intervjuer föratt ge en bild av företagets nuvarande innovationsförmåga. Baserat på analysen tas enförändringsprocess fram i form av en handlingsplan i samråd med företaget genom enworkshop. Syftet med workshopen är att involvera FoU-teamet i framtagandet avhandlingsplanen som kommer att ligga till grund för förändringen och omfattar aktivitetersom möter innovationsutmaningarna, mål för aktiviteterna och ansvariga personer i teamet förvar aktivitet.Resultatet från analysen visar att det upplevda kreativa klimatet i Electrolux varierar mycketmellan olika regioner och att det klimatet på Electrolux i Stockholm upplevs mycket kreativt.Ytterligare framgick det av analysen att de största innovationsutmaningarna är tvärfunktionellintegration och integration mellan regioner.Nio aktiviteter med mål definierades tillsammans med FoU-teamet under workshopen, allafokuserar på att öka förmågan av tvärfunktionell integration och integration mellan regioner.Nästa steg för teamet är att implementera handlingsplanen, utföra de definierade aktiviteternaoch utvärdera om målen uppnåtts. För att skapa en mer kraftfull effekt kan samma processanvändas på fler FoU-team på Electrolux.This Master of Science Thesis studies the innovation work in an R&D team at Electrolux. Thestudy strives to identify innovation challenges and activities in order to increase theinnovation capability within the team. The methodology applied in the study is the same asused in PIEp Innovation Pilot Process. PIEp (Product Innovation Engineering program) is aresearch and change program that aims to increase innovation capability of people andorganizations in Sweden. The methodology in PIEp Innovation Pilot Process is divided intoan Innovation Screening and a Change Process. The first part is an analysis that is carried outfrom detailed surveys and interviews regarding the company's innovation capability andidentifies innovation challenges. Based on the analysis a change process is planned inconsultation with the company and is carried out through a workshop. The purpose of theworkshop is to involve the R&D team in the development of an action plan that includesactivities that meet the innovation challenges, targets and responsible persons in the team foreach activity.The result from the analysis show that the creative climate at Electrolux is varying a lotbetween different regions and that the climate in Stockholm is very creative. Further more itemerged from the analysis that the greatest innovation challenges are cross-functionalintegration and cross-regional integration.Nine activities with targets were defined together with the R&D team during the workshop;all of them focusing on the cross-functional and cross-regional integration.The next step for the team is to implement the action plan, perform the defined activities andto evaluate if the desired results are reached. To create a more powerful effect, the sameprocess can be applied at more R&D teams at Electrolux.
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Thunberg, Eric. "CROSS-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION : How to Boost Innovation Capability." Thesis, KTH, Maskinkonstruktion (Inst.), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-170799.
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På den globala marknaden är konkurrensen mellan företag hög. Detta ställer krav på flexibilitet och innovationsförmåga hos etablerade företag, för att dessa ska kunna överleva. Det finns olika sätt att uppnå flexibilitet inom en organisation, men ett sätt som inte kräver särskilt stora interna förändringar är genom samarbete med andra företag. Ett sätt att undvika konkurrens och skaffa nya perspektiv är att fokusera på branschöverskridande samarbete mer specifikt. Utifrån detta har denna studies syfte varit att utforska hur företag använder sig av branschöverskridande samarbete för att höja sin innovationsförmåga.I och med att branschöverskridande samarbete är ett område inom forskningen som fortfarande är relativt outforskat används en utforskande ansats i studien. Den litteraturstudie som genomförts hanterar innovation i allmänhet, samarbeten mellan företag och specifikt branschöverskidande samarbeten.I studien har också 17 kvalitativa intervjuer genomförts på 15 företag som har erfarenhet av branschöverskridande samarbeten. Intervjuerna var semi-strukturerade och syftade till att beskriva konkreta exempel av branschöverskridanade samarbeten samt fånga respondentens företags attityd mot samarbete i ett generellt perspektiv.I resultatet återfanns variationer i hur företagen använder sig av branschöverskridande samarbeten. Utav alla respondenterna så gör vissa det för att komma åt teknologier, vissa för att undersöka nya värden och vissa för att komma åt nya marknader.Dessa, och fler resultat diskuteras sedan mot befintlig litteratur, där diskussionen utgör underlag för de slutsatser som sedan dras.Slutsatserna visar att företag i Sverige kan utvecklas i sin användning av branschöverskridande samarbeten, för att lära sig att maximera effekterna på företagens innovationsförmåga.On the global market the competition between firms is increasing. This require established firms to be flexible and innovative. There are different ways of achieving flexibility without critically changing a firm’s capabilities, out of which one is interfirm collaboration. A way to also avoid competition and gain new perspectives is to engage in cross-industry collaboration. With this in mind, the purpose of this thesis has been to explore how firms engage in cross-industry collaborations to boost their innovation capability.Considering that cross-industry collaborations is a relatively unexplored area within current research, an explorative approach is used in this thesis. The frame of reference that was conducted deals with innovation in general, interfirm collaboration and cross-industry collaboration specifics.In this thesis 17 respondents, with experience in cross-industry collaborations, belonging to 15 firms have been interviewed. The interviews were semi-structured and intended to capture examples of cross-industry collaborations and the respondent firm’s general attitude towards collaboration.The results reflect that firms use cross-industry collaborations in different ways. Out of all the respondents some engage in them to access technologies, some do it to explore potential values, and some do it to gain access to new markets.These results, and more, are then discussed in comparison with current literature, which makes the basis for the conclusions later drawn.The conclusions show that firms in Sweden can and should develop cross-industry collaboration strategies, to be able to maximise the effects on the firms’ innovation capabilities.
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Visser, J. D. "Assessing the innovation capability of a research institution." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/6839.
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Thesis (MScEng (Industrial Engineering))--University of Stellenbosch, 2011.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The evolution of the university’s role in national innovation systems has lately received increasing attention in international academic circles, with emphasis on its role in stimulating and sustaining national and regional economic growth. Universities in leading economies have adopted economic development as a third mission, along with the traditional objectives of teaching and research, directly leading to the inception of a technology transfer facilitator as an institutional unit. Translating this mission shift into the context of the Innovation Life Cycle, it seems that universities are involved in a larger part of the innovation process, rather than simply supplying inputs for the innovation funnel of industry. The subsequent need to gain maximum value from research has led innovation management practitioners to consider ways in which the innovation capability of universities can be improved. Several approaches have been documented to improve the performance of a university’s technology transfer office as an isolated entity. Most of these studies, however, have neglected to consider the technology transfer office in the context of the organisation-wide innovation process. The aim of this research is therefore to evaluate the innovation capability of a research institution to enable the improvement of their research commercialisation system. As a foundation the state of research commercialisation, innovation, and the relationship between the two are investigated. This process resulted in the validation that research commercialisation can be modelled by utilising an innovation model. The Innovation Capability Maturity Model version 2 (ICMMv2) of Essmann (1) is subsequently investigated with the aim of applying the model. This in turn leads to the application of the Innovation Capability Improvement Methodology accompanying the ICMMv2 in case study format on Stellenbosch University. The results obtained from the case study are presented in terms of the strengths and weaknesses of the innovation capability of the University. The results were found to be an accurate description of the current issues in the commercialisation system at Stellenbosch University. The latter was validated by individuals tasked with the execution of the research commercialisation process at the University. This, in turn, validates the use of the Innovation Capability Maturity Model for the identification of any aspects that need improvement in order to streamline a university’s research commercialisation efforts.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die evolusie van die universiteit se rol in nasionale innovasie stelsels kry toenemend aandag in internasionale akademiese kringe. Dit beklemtoon universiteite se rol in die stimulering en handhawing van nasionale en plaaslike ekonomiese groei. Universiteite in voorste ekonomieë het ekonomiese ontwikkeling aangeneem as 'n derde missie, saam met die tradisionele missies van onderrig en navorsing. Dit het direk gelei tot die inlywing van ‘n tegnologie-oordrag fasiliteerder as 'n institusionele eenheid. Die verskuiwing van missie in die konteks van die Innovasie lewensiklus, dui daarop dat universiteite betrokke raak in 'n groter deel van die innovasie proses, eerder as om net die verskaffer van insette vir die innovasie tregter van die industrie te wees. Die daaropvolgende vereiste om maksimum waarde te verkry uit navorsing, het veroorsaak dat innovasie bestuur praktisyns verskeie maniere ondersoek waarop die innovasie vermoë van universiteite verbeter kan word. Verskeie benaderings om die prestasie van 'n universiteit se tegnologie-oordrag eenheid as 'n geïsoleerde entiteit te verbeter, is gedokumenteer. Die meeste van hierdie studies het egter nagelaat om die tegnologie-oordrag eenheid te oorweeg in die konteks van die organisasie-wye innovasie proses. Die doel van hierdie navorsing is dus om die innovasie vermoë van 'n navorsingsinrigting te evalueer om die verbetering van hul navorsing kommersialisering stelsel moontlik te maak. As 'n basis word die stand van navorsing kommersialisering, innovasie en die verhouding tussen die twee ondersoek. Hierdie proses het gelei tot die validasie dat navorsing kommersialisering gemodelleer kan word deur middel van 'n innovasie model. Daarna is die Innovation Capability Maturity Model weergawe 2 (ICMMv2) van Essmann(1) ondersoek om ten einde die model toe te pas. Dit word gevolg deur die uitvoering van die Innovation Capability Improvement metodologie, as deel van die ICMMv2, op die Universiteit van Stellenbosch, in ‘n gevallestudie-formaat. Die resultate wat verkry is uit die gevallestudie word in terme van sterk en swak punte met betrekking tot die innovasie vermoë van die Universiteit bespreek. Die resultate is bevind om 'n akkurate beskrywing van die huidige kwessies in die kommersialiseringstelsel by die Universiteit van Stellenbosch te wees. Dit is dan ook bevestig deur sekere individue gemoeid met die uitvoering van die navorsing kommersialiseringproses by die Universiteit. Dit op sy beurt, bekragtig die gebruik van die ICMMv2 vir die identifisering van die aspekte wat verbeter moet word om 'n universiteit se navorsing kommersialiseringpoging vaartbelyn te maak.
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Anthony, Das Cecilia. "A Longitudinal Analysis of Malaysia’s Innovation System in Shaping Innovation Capability, 1965–2016." Thesis, Curtin University, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/88428.
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This thesis assesses the policies and strategies implemented between 1965 and 2016 in building Malaysia's Innovation capability through the National Innovation System lens. Malaysia, a newly industrialised economy, became an upper-middle-income country relatively early due to its open economy and industrialisation efforts. However, its development story is between a rock and a hard place. It is no longer an attractive alternative for foreign investors, nor can it compete at the innovative frontier.
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Svahn, Fredrik. "Digital Product Innovation : Building Generative Capability through Architectural Frames." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för informatik, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-58009.
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Over the last decades we have witnessed a profound digitalization of tangible products. While this shift offers great opportunities, it also exposes product developing industries to significant challenges. In these industries organizations, markets, and technologies are tuned for mass production, providing competitive advantage through scale economics. Typically, firms exercise modular strategies to deliver such scale benefits. Rooted in Herbert Simon’s notion of near decomposability, modular product architectures allow for production assets, such as tools, processes, and plants, to be effectively reused across product variants and over generations of designs. However, they come at a price; modularity requires overall design specifications to be frozen well before production. In practice, this tends to inscribe functional purpose in the structures of the system, effectively preventing firms from taking advantage of the speed by which digitized products can be developed and modified. The main objective of this thesis is to investigate and explain how product developing organizations adapt architectural thinking to balance the proven benefits of modularity and the emerging opportunities provided by digital technology. In doing so, it introduces a complementary architectural frame, grounded in Christopher Alexander’s seminal work on patterns. This frame associates the concept of architecture with generativity and reuse of ideas, rather than scale economics and reuse of physical assets. Sensitizing the theoretical framework through a longitudinal case study of digital product innovation this thesis derives several implications for theory and practice. Across four embedded cases in the automotive industry it demonstrates that generative capability follows from a shared organizational view on products as enablers and catalyzers of new, yet unknown functionality. Such an emergence-centric view requires product developing firms to rethink existing governance models. Rather than exercising control through specific functionality, inscribed in modular product structures, it offers the benefit of influencing innovation through general functional patterns, serving as raw material in distributed and largely uncoordinated innovation processes. This shift in focus, from specific functionality to general functional patterns, enables a new strategic asset for product developing firms. It opens up for proactive rather than reactive strategies, where the architecture makes an instrument to cultivate new ideas and business opportunities, rather than a tool for cost savings.
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Okten, D. "Enabling marketing and innovation capability in the digital economy." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2013. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/21077/.
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The present study examines the impact of marketing capabilities through a network perspective on innovative capabilities and firm performance. The market orientation and the resource-based view that underpin marketing capabilities have mainly treated marketing as internal capability of the firm. As firms are increasingly inter-connected and part of a business networks, a firm’s marketing capabilities need to be examined beyond a single firm. But, to date, no study has yet examined a firm's marketing capabilities from a network perspective in order to understand their influence on innovative capabilities. Thus, this study extends the existing research and conceptualisation of marketing capabilities from an internal perspective of a firm to external network relationships of the firm. This network perspective is based on a firm’s view of its network relationships, which accounts for inter-firm relationships, as well as through digital technology and learning orientation. With the advent of the Internet and information technology, this study conceptualises digital technology as an enabler of the relationship between marketing capability and innovative capability. Since capabilities evolve to become routines and/or deteriorate over time, a firm's learning orientation is also conceptualised for examining the extent to which capabilities impact on innovative capabilities. A survey data of 300 UK-based firms were analysed using statistical analysis to examine the influence of marketing capabilities on innovative capabilities and in turn, firm performance. In addition, interaction analyses were performed to test for mediating and moderating relationships of digital technology and learning orientation. Findings of the analysis show strong support for product development capability; marketing implementation capability; pricing capability. The results support the relative impact of marketing capabilities on innovative capabilities. While marketing capabilities may comprise interdependent capabilities, this finding suggests that firms can enhance innovative capabilities by emphasizing the salient marketing capabilities. Importantly, digital technology has a significant and positive mediating relationship for the relationship between marketing capabilities and innovative capabilities. This finding indicates that knowledge of the application of information technology would facilitate exploitation and exploration of marketing capabilities that enhance innovative capabilities. As indicated by the positive moderation of learning orientation for the relationship between marketing capabilities and innovative capability, the potential to harness marketing capabilities is better enhanced through learning orientation and digital technology. This new perspective of marketing capability analysis benefits from a firm’s network perspective that recognises a firm’s external relationships and inter-connected nature of business interactions. In this instance, digital technology extends the boundary of firm beyond a single firm, and learning orientation complements market orientation with learning and gathering of external market information. This research advances knowledge about specific types of marketing capabilities for improving innovative capability and firm performance through digital technology capability. The study also makes a significant contribution to building theoretical knowledge of the role of digital technology in enabling innovative capabilities by developing and empirically testing a new construct of digital technology. As the ability to mobilise digital technology is firm-specific, this study extends knowledge about the extent of learning orientation (moderator) to the marketing capabilities and innovative capabilities relationship through digital technology.
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Esterhuizen, Denele. "A knowledge management framework to grow innovation capability maturity." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/85716.
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Thesis (MScEng)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Innovation is widely considered a key prerequisite for achieving organisational competitiveness and sustained long-term wealth in our increasingly volatile business environment. It is therefore imperative that organisations enable themselves to relentlessly pursue constant innovation; to grow and mature their innovation capability. A study aimed at organisational support by means of business tools toward maturity growth in these innovation capability areas is therefore warranted. Knowledge management plays a fundamental role in the enterprise’s ability to innovate successfully, and the question arises whether knowledge management tools and organisational facilitating conditions can be used to grow innovation capability maturity. The existing literature on the subject is sparse, which led to the following research problem statement: No formal guidelines exist for the use of knowledge management to grow innovation capability maturity. Knowledge conversion is a prominent theme within the knowledge management field. Knowledge creation processes form the core of this knowledge creation model and therefore, one solution to the above-stated problem is to investigate the use of knowledge creation processes to grow innovation capability maturity. This notion provides the platform for aligning knowledge creation processes to the requirements for innovation capability growth from one maturity level to the next as the cornerstone for developing a knowledge management framework that enables innovation capability maturity growth. In order to align these knowledge processes with the requirements for growth in innovation capability maturity, the author identified a knowledge creation path as a key enabler for maturity growth in each innovation capability area. Knowledge management tools and organisational facilitating conditions that support the specific knowledge processes highlighted in the identified path were identified through a literature study and subsequently synthesised to form a framework. The impact of this framework lies in providing guidelines for the use of knowledge management as a vehicle for innovation capability maturity growth.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Innovasie word allerweë beskou as ’n kernvereiste vir die verkryging van organisatoriese mededingendheid en volhoubare langtermynsukses in ons toenemend wisselvallige sake-omgewing. Dit is dus noodsaaklik dat organisasies hulself in staat stel om meedoënloos konstante innovasie na te streef; om hul innovasievermoë uit te brei en volwassenheid daarin te bereik. ’n Studie gemik op organisatoriese ondersteuning deur middel van sake-hulpmiddels ten einde groei in volwassenheid in hierdie innovasievermoë-areas te bereik, is dus nodig. Kennisbestuur speel ’n fundamentele rol in die onderneming se vermoë om suksesvol te innoveer, wat die volgende vraag ontlok: Kan kennisbestuurhulpmiddels en organisatoriese fasiliteringsomstandighede gebruik word om innovasievermoëvolwassenheid te bereik? Die bestaande literatuur oor die onderwerp is gebrekkig, wat aanleiding tot die volgende probleemstelling gegee het: Daar is geen formele riglyne vir die gebruik van kennisbestuur om innovasievermoëvolwassenheid te verbeter nie. Kennisomskakeling is ’n prominente tema in die gebied van kennisbestuur. Kennisskeppingsprosesse vorm die kern van hierdie kennisskeppingsmodel en daarom is een oplossing tot bogenoemde probleem om die gebruik van kennisskeppingsprosesse om innovasievermoëvolwassenheid te verbeter, te ondersoek. Hierdie idee skep ’n platform om kennisskeppingsprosesse met die vereistes vir innovasievermoëverbetering van een volwassenheidsvlak tot die volgende te belyn, as hoeksteen vir die ontwikkeling van ’n kennisbestuurraamwerk om innovasievermoëvolwassenheid te verbeter. Ten einde hierdie kennisprosesse met die vereiste vir groei in innovasievermoëvolwassenheid te belyn, het die outeur ’n kennisskeppingspad as kernelement geïdentifiseer om volwassenheidsgroei in elke innovasievermoë-area in die hand te werk. Kennisbestuurhulpmiddels en organisatoriese fasiliteringsomstandighede wat die spesifieke kennisprosesse wat in die geïdentifiseerde pad uitgelig word, ondersteun, is deur middel van ’n literatuurstudie geïdentifiseer en daarna gesintetiseer om ’n raamwerk te vorm. Die impak van hierdie raamwerk lê daarin om riglyne vir die gebruik van kennisbestuur as ’n middel tot innovasievermoëvolwassenheidsgroei te bied.
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Wang, Liwen. "Developing innovation capability : the case of Chinese automobile companies." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0cc84a1a-8826-4b29-a508-66692db6089f.
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Innovation contributes to the firm's competitive advantage, and it also provides the engine for long-term economic growth. As the emerging markets transition from a centrally planned to a market-based system, understanding and promoting innovation during this process is of vital importance as to create value and achieve sustainable development. Therefore, this thesis contributes to a vibrant conversation in social sciences on the topic of innovation, with a special focus on emerging markets. Given that the firm is the primary actor in determining the effectuation of innovation and technological change, I have focused on the innovation capability of Chinese automobile assembly companies. More specifically, this thesis investigates one central research question: what are the critical factors that influence the innovation capability of Chinese automobile companies and how (both independent and joint effect)? This thesis builds on multiple theories in the field of innovation, strategic management and international business (i.e., resource-based view, behavioral theory, and institution-based view), and employs a mixed-methods approach with the collection and analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data. The qualitative approach involves intensive literature reviews, personal interviews, field observation, company reports and etc.; and quantitative data includes an industry-wide survey and archival data. A four-paper structure has been adopted to address the research question in both depth and scope. Being explorative in nature, Paper 1 explains the drivers and consequences of the innovation capability of Chinese automakers. Based on the resource-based view, five potential resources are examined regarding their independent effect on building innovation capability. Further considering the contingent value of organizational resources, ownership is studied as a boundary condition shaping the effect of resources on the firm's innovation capability. Focusing on internal factors within the firm, Paper 2 investigates the interaction effect of innovation incentives and workplace relationships on absorptive capacity, one type of innovation capabilities that emphasizes the process of searching, assimilating and exploiting valuable external knowledge. Specifically, vertical and horizontal relationships in the workplace are demonstrated to affect the effect of innovation incentives on absorptive capability differently. Acknowledging knowledge as the most important resource in innovation, Paper 3 takes a structural approach towards knowledge search and absorption. It highlights two dimensions of external knowledge linkages, namely breadth and depth, and examines how the breadth and depth of knowledge linkages relate to innovation in the Chinese automobile sector. Shifting the attention to external factors, the last paper (Paper 4) stresses the impact of external institutions (i.e., the Chinese government) on firms and zooms in to study how one Chinese privately owned auto company (Geely) adapts and performs since its establishment in the early 2000s. The value of taking an integrated strategy that combines political, marketing and technological strategies is especially valuable in the Chinese institutional context with strong government resource dependence and policy uncertainty. This thesis makes three major contributions to the existing literature. First, by focusing on the Chinese automobile assembly companies, it enhances the understanding of innovation in one of the biggest emerging markets, characterized by strong government intervention, complex knowledge networks, and the prospect of technology leapfrogging. Second, studying the innovation processes at the organizational level reveals the complex, dedicated nature of promoting innovation capability and performance. In particular, it speaks to the conceptual models and empirical findings on the contingent value of different kinds of resources, the asymmetric role of vertical and horizontal and relationships in organizations, and the depth and breadth of knowledge linkage. Third, it sheds light on the relationships between micro and macro-level phenomenon, especially the firm-industry-government interaction. These findings are potentially applicable for policy makers in other emerging markets where there is a strong need for innovation capability and economic growth.
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Evangelisti, Linn, and Johan Sundell. "Playing the Innovation Game : Developing the Community Sensing Capability." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-355298.
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The remarkable growth of the video game industry has triggered an interest for the capabilities that video game companies need in order to seize opportunities in the market. Companies that continuously provide product innovations are arguably better equipped to succeed in the dynamic, digitized video game landscape. Market sensing capabilities have been brought forward as particularly useful in environments with these characteristics and research suggests that user communities could be critical sources of external knowledge for video game companies. Hence, the aim of this study is to provide a framework where these concepts are combined into a unified dynamic capability, Community Sensing Capability, and to quantitatively test its effect on product innovativeness. An interview-administered questionnaire was used to gather data, resulting in a sample of 72 observations. The capability builds on three different sub-processes; sensing, sensemaking and response. Reliable measurements were developed for Community Sensing Capability, sensing and response respectively. The regression analysis indicate that sensing and response are positively related to product innovativeness, while Community Sensing Capability is not significantly related. This study contributes to literature by shedding light on a new phenomenon and giving initial insights to how the Community Sensing Capability can be exploited in innovation processes.
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Egger, Philipp G. "Building technical process innovation capability : an intra-organisational perspective." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2016. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/263029.
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This dissertation is concerned with the strategic management of process innovations. It explores and describes in what way the technical process innovation capability is built and maintained by R&D and production departments at a world leading motor vehicle manufacturer. It is widely accepted that new or significantly improved production methods are a main driver of competitive advantage for innovative manufacturers and enable both effectiveness and efficiency gains. However, the strategic management of process innovations has been subjected to little research and remains not well understood. This research set out to develop a descriptive model—outlining the used activities, mechanisms and controls to undertake technical process innovation projects as well as the applied strategies, practices or tactics to institutionalise the knowledge and skills—which illustrates the strategic management of process innovations. An IDEF0 (Integration DEFinition language 0) function model was ’constructed’ from 15 examples of current or recent technical process innovations within the Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft (BMW AG). This single-company multiple-case design utilised data sources such as semi-structured interviews, written documents and direct observations and made use of an inductive thematic (coding) analysis. Emerging from the evidence, this research reveals that cumulative learning through a closed-loop control and an appropriate interplay of co-ordination and learning mechanisms is essential for building and maintaining a technical process innovation capability. Furthermore, there is evidence to indicate that a formal system of reflection and contextspecific co-ordination mechanisms facilitate the incorporation of lessons learned and project related experiences into organisational process assets. The main outcome of this research has been the synthesis of elements contributing to the formation of a firm’s technical process innovation capability by means of a graphical concept map. However, due to the breadth of the investigated innovation stage-gate model which starts with a stimulus for innovation and proceeds through various stages of design and industrialisation to an innovation introduced into practice, some areas would benefit from further work. A possible direction to strengthen the empirical evidence is not only to replicate this research within and outside the automotive industry but also to focus on elements of the graphical concept map and to explain and understand their interaction in greater detail.
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Goncalves, Dulce. "Organizational Agility and Digital Innovation Capability in Automotive Startups." Licentiate thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Halmstad Embedded and Intelligent Systems Research (EIS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-43787.
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Existing research on organizational agility has primarily focused on large com- panies. This research tends to reference startups as the truly agile organizations, and it is assumed that large established corporations have much to learn from startups, especially for digital innovation. However, little research has studied startups with an organizational agility lens to identify how startups develop organizational agility and what enables and hinders such agility. There is a need to better understand how startups use organizational agility to gain leverage in digital innovation. This licentiate thesis is based on three papers, where each paper focuses on one aspect of organizational agility, and aims to answer the research question: How do startups use organizational agility to gain leverage in digital innovation? A qualitative approach was applied, and two interview studies were conducted in the automotive products and services domain. This domain was chosen be- cause it has recently been challenged by newcomers with very different strategies for innovation and the automotive incumbents are now struggling to transform into agile enterprises. Subsequently, it became possible to identify differences in how organizational agility is applied in digital innovation in large companies and startups. The first study included three incumbents and two in- ternational startups, and the second study included nine startups. The startups included in the two studies were located in Sweden and one startup in the USA (active in Sweden). 23 semi-structured interviews were conducted, which en- abled us to gain a richer and more in-depth understanding about how startups develop and applied organizational agility in their digital innovation initiatives. An initial literary study helped identify core dimensions of organizational agil- ity that were empirically investigated. Organizational agility as an analytic lens was operationalized using different frameworks to support our analysis work. The concluding analysis showed differences between startups' ability to use organizational agility in digital innovation. The startups had different ap- proaches to digital innovation and the analysis shows different types of organ- izational agility. The startups that applied an agile culture, visionary and trans- formative approach (effectuation logic) and open innovation, were the most successful when it came to keeping a high digital innovation pace compared with the other startups in this study. Based on the analysis of how organization-Page 2 of 167al agility affected the studied companies' digital innovation capability, we iden- tified four ideal types of startup organizational agility: digital industrial, digital complementary, digital exploiter, and digital disrupter. In Digital industrial, the value of organizational agility is less exploited because it applies a planning approach and a unilateral technical focus with a vague business model, leading to a low digital innovation capability. In Digital complementary, the value of organizational agility is utilized while applying a planning approach, focusing on in-depth technical research where the value, once integrated into a customer product, can lead to a high digital innovation capability. In Digital exploiter, the value of organizational agility is fully utilized while applying a visionary and adaptive approach, focusing on the rapid exploitation of market-driven digital services applied but can lead to low digital innovation capability. In Digital disrupter, the value of organizational agility is optimally utilized by using a visionary and transformative strategy, focusing on in-depth and rapid explora- tion in innovation ecosystems or networks, which leads to high digital innova- tion capability. The research contributes to practice and the theory of organizational agility by showing how the various aspects of organizational agility impact the organiza- tions' digital innovation capability.
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Ottaviano, Michael Edward, and mikeottaviano@hotmail com. "Assessing and improving the enablers of innovation the development of an innovation capability assessment instrument." Swinburne University of Technology. Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship, 2005. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au./public/adt-VSWT20050707.162428.
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The ability to successfully innovate on a sustained basis is critical in today�s �hyper-competitive� environment characterised by increasingly rapid technological change and shortening product life cycles, and where competitors quickly imitate sources of competitive advantage. At the same time, organisations find managing innovation difficult; both larger firms who fight to avoid being outplayed by smaller, more nimble competitors, and smaller firms struggling to compete against the resources and reach of larger, global competitors.
This research develops an assessment instrument designed to assist organisations to improve their ability to innovate. An inductive, case-based methodology is adopted utilising action research techniques to develop the Innovation Capability Assessment instrument. The starting point of the research was an extensive analysis of the corporate entrepreneurship and innovation literature. The literature provided a basis for understanding what question areas might need to be included in such an instrument and led to the development of an initial theoretical framework and a preliminary assessment instrument.
The preliminary assessment instrument was further developed and refined via five exploratory case studies. Three subsequent confirmatory case studies were used to validate the instrument�s effectiveness. The case studies were carried out at Australian organisations operating within a variety of industries and of varying sizes, all of whom were looking to improve their innovation performance. Data was collected through interviews with key members of each organisation and through assessment and action planning workshops involving participants from a cross-section of each organisation. The case studies led to additional assessment questions being added to the instrument, and the rationalisation of others.
This research identifies the enablers of organisational innovation and finds that these are common to all the case organisations involved in the fieldwork. The innovation enablers form the basis of the Innovation Capability Assessment instrument that measures innovation performance against 21 questions within three key assessment areas: strategic management of innovation, the internal environment, and a series of innovation competencies. The relative importance of each innovation enabler to the organisation is also assessed.
The Innovation Capability Assessment instrument is shown to be very relevant across a variety of organisation types and sizes. In addition, it is useful for an organisation to identify and prioritise weaknesses, and develop actions for improving their innovation capability.
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Zeschky, Marco. "Exploration for innovation : capability-based search approaches in established firms /." Lichtenberg : Harland Media, 2010. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=3419781&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Colaço, Miguel Maria de Sá Nogueira Almeida. "The role of Customer Relationship Management in organizational innovation capability." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/10722.
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Mestrado em Gestão de Sistemas de InformaçãoAs empresas hoje em dia estão a enfrentar novos obstáculos, devido às mudanças contínuas no mercado, especialmente quando se tratam de necessidades dos clientes e novas tendências. Customer relationship management (CRM) é um tópico muito discutido no ambiente académico (Ngai et al., 2009), em relação a sistemas de informação e em gestão de marketing. A adoção de CRM está a crescer, com objetivos claros de melhorar a performance das empresas (Sin et al., 2005), aumentar a satisfação dos clientes e a sua fidelização. CRM pode também afetar a capacidade de inovação de uma empresa (Lin et al. 2010). Neste trabalho final de mestrado, a relação entre CRM e a capacidade de inovação das empresas foi analisada. A principal questão de investigação desta dissertação é: "Como é que os sistemas de CRM são úteis no suporte à capacidade de inovação de uma organização?". A base de argumentação desta questão é o facto dos sistemas de CRM impulsionarem a inovação através da teoria das capacidades dinâmicas. Nesta dissertação foram efetuadas entrevistas exploratórias com especialistas em CRM de forma a entender como é que o CRM pode melhorar a capacidade de inovação nas empresas. Outro objetivo desta dissertação foi o desenvolvimento da base teórica deste tema devido à lacuna que existe na literatura atualmente. A principal contribuição desta dissertação foi a proposta de um modelo conceptual da relação do CRM com a capacidade de inovação. Foi também apresentado um conjunto de hipóteses para serem testadas no futuro para provar o modelo proposto.
Organizations are facing new obstacles every day, due to constant changes in the market, especially when dealing with customers' needs and new trends. Nowadays, customers are very sensitive to the market and are constantly aware of new trends and new products/services. Customer relationship management (CRM) is much discussed in the academic environment (Ngai et al., 2009), regarding information systems and marketing management. CRM adoption is growing, with clear objective of improving organizational performance (Sin et al., 2005), increase customer satisfaction and retention. CRM have several capabilities and correctly implemented in an organizational structures can provide some benefits in terms of internal and external processes, regarding customers relationship. CRM can also affect organizational innovation capability (Lin et al. 2010). The main research question of this project is: How useful is CRM systems in providing support for innovation capability? The argumentation supporting this question is that CRM can drive innovation through dynamic capabilities. In this master thesis, were conducted exploratory interviews with CRM experts (academics and professionals) in order to understand how CRM can improve innovation capability? The theoretical background to support this thesis was also a research objective, due to the gap in academic literature concerning this subject. The main contribution of this research project was the proposition of a conceptual model linking CRM systems usage with innovation capability. It is also suggested for future work, a set of hypothesis to be tested, in order to prove the suitability of the proposed model.
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Zeschky, Marco. "Exploration for innovation capability-based search approaches in established firms." Lichtenberg (Odw.) Harland Media, 2009. http://d-nb.info/999847120/04.
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Lee, Ahreum. "DIVERSIFYING SOURCES OF KNOWLEDGE, INNOVATION CAPABILITY BUILDING, AND CATCH UP." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/462858.
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This dissertation consists of three essays examining the role of connectivity in the catch-up process of a nation primarily focusing on East Asian countries. Specifically, I investigate the sourcing of knowledge, especially tacit knowledge, on local innovation capability building and thus catch-up process of a nation. I argue that for any country, sourcing from the diverse pools of tacit knowledge available in different parts of the world is a crucial requirement in maintaining a robust innovation eco-system. This becomes much more important in the catch-up process of a less-developed or emerging economy that is attempting to build local innovation capability. In the first chapter, I lay the theoretical groundwork for the dissertation by reviewing how existing studies have contributed to our understanding of the catch-up process of an economy. Then, in the second chapter, I explore how the openness of an economy underpins contrasting economic outcomes by comparing the economies of South Korea and Brazil. The third chapter emphasizes that the connectivity to the global innovation system is equally important for a more advanced economy such as Japan. Lack of such connectivity could lead to systemic “lock-in” in the long term. This is done by investigating the national systems of innovation of Japan in four knowledge-intensive industries: automotive, electronics, robotics and pharmaceuticals. Using patent data, I demonstrate that compared to other advanced countries such as Germany and Denmark, the Japanese innovation system is quite closed. I speculate that closedness to global innovation systems could be one of the reasons for Japan’s prolonged economic recession and the underperformance of its once world leading firms. The fourth chapter proposes an alternative catch-up strategy by investigating the innovation catch-up processes in Korea and Taiwan. These two Asian economies achieved developed status in a remarkably short period of time. Surprisingly, I found that these two countries are not well-connected to the rest of the world when it comes to innovation networks. These two countries achieved innovation catch-up rapidly by focusing on specific technologies that inherently require less reliance on learning through co-inventor networks. These technologies are the so-called “short cycle” technologies, i.e., technologies where the time period between innovation and maturation is very short. Therefore, relatively advanced technologies can be obtained in an “off-the-shelf” manner through outright purchase, licensing, and other means that do not require in-house wholly-owned innovation systems.
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Tsekouras, George. "Integration, organisation and management : investigating capability building." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.263212.
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Gresham, Maria T. "A study of organizational capability management as a mediator of successful innovation implementation and innovation problems." The Ohio State University, 1999. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1272989038.
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Ovuakporie, Oghogho D. "Open Innovation Practices and Innovation Performance: A Dynamic Capabilities Approach." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/18394.
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Van, der Walt Johanna Maria. "Technology for knowledge innovation : a realistic pluralist scientific problem solving capability." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2005. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-01232006-155408.
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Sahota, Parminder Singh. "The development and application of cultural archetypes for understanding innovation capability." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2002. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/90.
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This thesis recognizes that organizational culture is a primary determinant of innovation capability and argues the need to better understand this relationship or process as a necessary prerequisite to nurturing it in a more structured and systematic manner. The study explores this relationship within an R&D environment in telecommunications. It draws upon the knowledge management, organisational behaviour and organisational theory literatures to conceptualise organisational culture as a repository of knowledge. Using a soft systems bottom up approach four cultural archetypes with specific knowledge dynamics are identified and developed through a three-phase multi-method research strategy. These provide a clearer understanding of the relationship between organisational culture and innovation capability. The thesis concludes by considering strategies for improving innovation capability through the effective and appropriate movement between these archetypes.
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Park, Byung-Jin Robert. "The Effects of Coopetition and Coopetition Capability on Firm Innovation Performance." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/37916.
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This dissertation is motivated by two research questions: 1) to what extent does coopetition impact firm innovation performance? and 2) to what extent does a firmâ s coopetition capability influence the relationship between coopetition and firm innovation performance? Despite the popularity of coopetition in both the academic and business arenas, empirical studies on the effects of coopetition on firm innovation performance are rare. With the dynamic and paradoxical nature of coopetition, the role of a firmâ s specific capability to manage coopetition (i.e., coopetition capability) is an important issue that has remained under-researched in the literature.
In an endeavor to contribute to the coopetition literature in the context of technological innovation, both theoretical and methodological improvements were pursued for this dissertation. From a theoretical perspective, I conceptualize coopetition as composed of three components: 1) competition between partners, 2) cooperation between partners, and 3) the interplay between competition and cooperation. It is argued that the balance between competition and cooperation is essential to generate greater innovation performance in the paradoxical relationship. Further, I newly conceptualize coopetition-based innovation that is composed of three components: 1) joint innovation, 2) innovation through knowledge application, and 3) innovation in the partnerâ s domains. Methodologically, I measure coopetition as a continuous variable.
Using both a longitudinal research design in the semiconductor industry and an exemplar case study of coopetition, I examine the effects of coopetition and coopetition capability on coopetition-based innovation. To represent coopetition, I employed four combinations with two types of competition (technology competition and market competition) and two types of cooperation (type strength of a focal alliance and tie strength between partners). The empirical evidence indicates that the balance between competition and cooperation at both the dyadic and portfolio levels increases the potential of firms to generate greater innovation performance from coopetition. This study demonstrates that firms with coopetition capabilities can manage coopetition and create greater common value with a partner and appropriate more value from the dynamic and paradoxical relationship. The research findings also have important managerial implications.Ph. D.
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Elfsberg, Jenny. "Insert innovation : Strengthening the innovative capability of a large, mature firm." Licentiate thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för maskinteknik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-16147.
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Sniukas, Marc. "The micro-foundations of business model innovation as a dynamic capability." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-microfoundations-of-business-model-innovation-as-a-dynamic-capability(d532332a-a98a-4bf9-8613-7353f08b12eb).html.
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This study adopts a dynamic capabilities perspective to explore the activities and processes through which business model innovation arises in established organisations. New and innovative business models are fundamental to the commercialisation of latest technologies, performance, competitive advantage, as well as the creation of value for customers, the focal company and its ecosystem. Yet, our current understanding of how established companies design and implement new business models is limited by a lack of empirical research. The dynamic capabilities perspective offers a promising route to investigate the managerial and organisational activities and practices through which business model innovation is enacted. Based on a review of the business model, business model innovation and dynamic capabilities literatures, business model innovation is framed as a dynamic capability and research questions are developed. These questions are investigated using grounded theory methodology, collecting and analysing data from five case studies from the manufacturing, financial services, media, consulting, and healthcare industries. Findings from an initial sample suggest a business model innovation process consisting of an inception, evolution and diffusion phase, encumbered by cognitive, emotional and behavioural challenges. Linking the findings to the dynamic capabilities perspective, three micro-foundations, namely, process orchestration, learning, and deployment mechanisms are identified. Findings from a subsequent theoretical sample not only unravel the underlying managerial and organisational activities of these micro-foundations, but also reveal further details on the challenges faced, as well as the key role of senior management for orchestrating and enacting this process and its underlying activities. Considered collectively the findings offer a novel understanding of how business model innovations come about in established organisations, a practice labelled ‘crafting business models in statu nascendi’. The dissertation closes with a discussion and synthesis of the findings, the theoretical contribution and managerial implications, as well as limitations of the present study and areas for future research.
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Azzam, Ala'a Mahmoud Mohammad. "Architectural innovation capability and performance : the moderating role of absorptive capacity." Thesis, Durham University, 2016. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12168/.
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Knowledge processing capabilities including knowledge creation and absorptive capacity are required to renew a firm’s knowledge stock. These capabilities keep firms abreast of technological and market changes as they enable a proactive approach in responding to these changes. An outdated knowledge stock and the overlooking of changes in external knowledge are destructive in today’s competitive environment; firms in these circumstances risk being caught in competency traps and rigidities. Hence, knowledge exploitation has an indispensable role in enhancing innovation. This thesis focuses on architectural innovation which is the capability to reconfigure products’ components and so create novel products. It requires the creation of new architectural knowledge while reserving the component knowledge. Although this innovation capability relies profoundly on creating new architectural knowledge, it is also important that firms are competent in absorbing external knowledge. Although the literature on new product development performance captures innovation as a prerequisite of performance, it is yet unclear how architectural innovation capability affects performance. Therefore, this thesis explores the interaction effect of architectural innovation capability and absorptive capacity on firms’ performance. Although knowledge creation coined with organisation’s absorptive capacity drive innovation, the innovation literature over the last two decades emphasises integrating knowledge from external sources, particularly from lead users. Lead users’ contribution to product quality is one of the under-researched areas. In addition to the dearth of empirical research, quality was measured by experts’ judgment; it is possible that this judgment may be a biased evaluation of quality compared with a quantitative scale devoted to measure quality. To overcome the previous research’s limitation in measuring quality, this research examines how lead users’ integration promotes product quality as measured using a validated scale. The developed theoretical framework links knowledge creation with architectural innovation capability; at the same time it explores the interaction effect of architectural innovation capability and absorptive capacity on new product development performance. Furthermore, the theoretical model captures the effect of lead users’ integration on development time and product quality. Empirical findings, based on primary data collected from 196 UK manufacturing companies show that, knowledge creation modes (socialisation and internalisation) have a positive effect on enhancing architectural innovation capability. Also, absorptive capacity interaction with architectural innovation capability affects financial performance. Assimilation and transformation strengthen innovation’s impact on performance, while exploitation weakens this effect. Finally, the analysis shows that the integration of lead users positively affects development speed and product quality. Overall, this study contributes to the literature on knowledge processing capabilities by suggesting that knowledge creation is one of the underlying capabilities needed for innovation. In addition, this research contributes to the sheer amount of literature on absorptive capacity, by suggesting that different capacities have different effects on innovation and performance. The major value added by this research relates to architectural innovation capability; the findings suggest that both knowledge processing capabilities and absorptive capacity affect the capability to create new linkages between product components and technologies.
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Un, C. Annique (Chhomroth Annique) 1969. "Organizational capabilities, knowledge, and innovation : strategies for developing the capability to mobilize and create knowledge for innovation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8780.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, February 2001."February 2000."
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 297-311).
In this thesis I analyze the way in which companies develop the capability to mobilize and create knowledge for innovation. This capability is crucial to achieve and maintain a sustainable competitive advantage. In order to conduct this analysis, I link and integrate three bodies of literature -the literature on resource-based theory of the firm, team-level studies of innovation, and organization-level studies of innovation to provide an integrated view of how companies develop the capability to innovate and how this relates to their performance. The empirical analysis was conducted in two phases, in order to develop an empirically grounded and generalizable theory. In the first phase, in order to understand "how" companies develop this capability, I conducted a comparative multiple case study of twenty-four cross functional innovation teams in three companies. The result of this analysis was a general framework for the development of the capability to mobilize and create knowledge for innovation. From this I drew eight propositions regarding what companies do at the organizational level and at the project team level when organizing for innovation. In the second phase, I analyzed these propositions and examined which specific factors and strategies have a greater influence on this capability in a sample of 182 cross-functional innovation teams belonging to 38 companies. The innovation teams were selected from the largest customer service center of each firm. They were formed with the objective of using market knowledge about their products and services to innovate in response to customer preferences. In addition to innovation, I analyzed other outcomes of this capability, such as efficiency in terms of resources used, effectiveness in terms of customer satisfaction and speed-to-market of the innovation, and learning. The results of the tests and their theoretical and practical implications are listed below. grouped by level of analysis: Capability development at the project team level. Capability development at the organizational level. Linking project team-level and organization-level capability development. Overall, this thesis expands and integrates three bodies of literature to provide an integrated view of how companies develop the capability to mobilize and create knowledge for innovation. In terms of the resource-based theory of the firm, this study shows how companies develop this capability. In terms of the team-level innovation literature. the mirror image between project team-level processes and their organization-level processes suggests that teams should not be analyzed in isolation from their organization-level processes. In terms of the organization-level innovation literature, especially the differentiation-integration framework. facilitators of knowledge mobilization, i.e., communication, can also be developed as needed at the project team level when teams organize for innovation. Furthermore, this thesis provides recommendations for specific strategies and practices that managers can follow to develop this capability both at the organizational level, regardless of when they organize for innovation, and at the project team level. when firms organize for innovation in order to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage.
by C. Annique Un.
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Chung, Ka Wai. "Leadership, innovation capability, and SME's product innovation performance :the moderating roles of reward philosophy and entrepreneurial culture." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2019. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/727.
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Innovation is vital to the survival and prosperity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Such firms have the inherent liability of limited resources, which creates a barrier to their pursuit of innovative activities. To compete with larger incumbents and sustain competitive advantages, leaders, the principal decision-makers, play a key role in devising innovation strategies and have overall responsibility for firms' ultimate performance. This study draws on the resource-based view (RBV) and dynamic capabilities perspective (DC) to develop a model linking leadership (resource) to innovation (dynamic capability) and product innovation performance (sustainable competitive advantage). In addition, it suggests that reward philosophy and entrepreneurial culture can enhance or hinder the effect of transformational and transactional leadership on exploratory and exploitative innovation in the context of SMEs. Using a quantitative research method, 151 valid pairs of questionnaires (i.e. 302 respondents) were collected from the top management of small and medium-sized manufacturing firms in China. The empirical findings showed that transformational leadership behaviors could foster both exploratory and exploitative innovations. Transactional leaders, consistent with the literature, could facilitate exploitative activities, but not exploratory innovation. The data analysis also indicated that different types of innovation delivered different benefits to firms. In addition, reward philosophy and entrepreneurial culture had divergent moderating effects on the relationship between leadership style and innovative outcome.
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Sandberg, Johan. "Digital Capability : Investigating Coevolution of IT and Business Strategies." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för informatik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-88722.
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This dissertation investigates the role of information technology (IT) in organizational strategy. Specifically, it examines how organizations can persist in turbulent competitive landscapes characterized by IT innovations. Underlying premises for this dissertation are that: (1) ubiquitous IT implies constant disruptions from digital innovation, (2) IT and practice are becoming fused, and (3) organizational strategies are dynamically linked with practice, i.e. they are reciprocally related through what organizations do rather than have. To investigate such IT strategizing processes, I outline a conceptual framework for analyzing how organizations can generate digital capability, i.e. a collection of routines for strategizing by leveraging digital assets to create differential value. Digital assets here refer to the complement of available resources and competencies for IT design and implementation. Based on the notion of dynamic capability and evolutionary theory, this framework emphasizes the importance of sensing, seizing and transforming abilities for generating digital capability. As organizational practices are becoming fused with IT scholars have argued that attempting to disentangle them analytically is futile. In a similar vein, organizational strategy is increasingly reliant on available IT resources for both formulation and execution. In the IS field it is widely acknowledged that IT has both enabling and inhibiting consequences for organizations. Drawing on the resource-based view of the firm and theory on organizational capabilities, the notion of IT capability has been widely used as a conceptual tool for analyzing these dual strategic effects of IT. Considering the explosive advances in computing, network and interaction that have resulted in IT being ubiquitous and deeply embedded in contemporary practices, recent research argues for the need to move beyond the functional view of technology implicit in the IT capability notion. A key aspect to address for such broadening of the perspective is the coevolution of IT and business practices, i.e. who (or what) leads, who or what follows, and whether such a causal distinction is meaningful. Grounded in the outlined conceptual framework, this dissertation examines how organizations can build digital capability to both enable large variation and complexity of feasible competitive actions, and reduce inhibiting effects of IT. The empirical investigation is situated in three distinct domains: boundary spanning IT innovation, transformation of existing IT resources, and hybridization of technology through digitalization of production equipment. These investigations are presented in five research papers. The dissertation contribute to knowledge of IT strategy by: (1) explicating the construct of digital capability, (2) providing a framework for coevolutionary strategizing processes, (3) presenting an empirical illustration of the coevolution of IT and business strategies, and (4) offer specific insights on design and orchestration of processes for digital capability generation.
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Zhou, Yun, and Yuhan Ye. "Measuring and analyzing the continued innovation capability in Guizhou Huagong Tools Company." Thesis, University of Gävle, Department of Technology and Built Environment, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-5429.
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Just as the innovation is one of the key elements in organization, therefore the continued innovation capacity will derive organization successful. Whilst, measuring and analyzing CI capacity in organization is an important activity. The primary goal of this paper is to audit and analyze the continued innovation (CI) capacity in Guizhou Huagong Tools Company with the innovation model developed by Bessant&Tidd (2005).This research includes literature study and case company investigation, both quality and quantity research is used in this thesis in order to obey the deductive logic. The finding of this thesis showed that Huagong Tools Company relying on a series of innovation mechanism has been an advance innovation but not the best one, this is due to a paucity of radical innovation and capture ability from innovation, furthermore, an ill-defined innovation strategy has been incriminated as one of this circumstances, depending on that, authors briefly summarize suggestions for the problems. At last but not least the discussion about innovation theory expounded in the end.
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Aune, Tina Bjørnevik. "Managing Suppliers in Business Networks: : Exploring Innovation, Capability Development, and Network Pictures." Doctoral thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for industriell økonomi og teknologiledelse, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-24060.
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Avhandlingen fokuserer på tre sentrale tema knyttet til leverandørhåndtering i bedriftsnettverk. Det første temaet er involvering av leverandører i innovasjonsprosesser. Innovasjon oppstår i økende grad i skjæringspunktet mellom bedrifter, og relasjoner til leverandører har vist seg å være spesielt viktige. Det andre temaet er knyttet til hvordan leverandører kan bidra til kompetanseutvikling hos en kjøpende bedrift. Utnyttelse av leverandørens ressurser på mest hensiktsmessig måte betyr at innsikt i leverandørens kontekst er viktig. Dette blir håndtert i det tredje temaet som tar for seg nettverksbilder relatert til leverandører. Det empiriske materialet er tre single case studier av middels store teknologiske bedrifter og et utvalg av deres viktigste leverandører i tillegg til koblinger til tredjeparter. Avhandlingen består av fire paper basert på de tre case studiene. Paper 1 fokuserer på ulike måter å organisere leverandørinvolvering i innovasjonsprosesser på ved å introdusere en taxonomi. Paper 2 fokuserer på utvikling og anvendelse av leverandørers kapabiliteter med spesielt fokus på hvordan leverandørens kunder påvirker dette. Paper 3 diskuterer bruk av nettverksbilder for å håndtere viktige leverandører i deres nettverkskontekst. Paper 4 fokuserer på leverandørutvikling og hvordan bedriftsnettverket som leverandørutviklingsaktivitetene oppstår i påvirker leverandørens utvikling. Et sentralt funn i avhandlingen er at tredjeparter spiller en spesielt viktig rolle for hvordan leverandører utvikler sin kompetanse og for ledelse av innovasjonsprosesser med leverandører, i tillegg til å gi muligheter og begrensninger for kunde-leverandør relasjonen. Et nettverksperspektiv gjør det mulig å analysere hvordan involvering av leverandører organiseres for teknologisk innovasjon ved å fokusere på bredden av bedriftsinvolvering på leverandørsiden og på graden av samarbeid med levererandøren. Videre er det mulig å analysere utviklingen av leverandørers kapabiliteter ved å fokusere på å identifisere relevante tredjeparter og hvor viktige de er for utvikling og anvendelse av en leverandørs spesifikke kapabiliteter, i tillegg til hvordan tredjeparter kan aktiveres for å bidra til å utvikle leverandører. Til slutt diskuteres det at det er mulig å analysere ledelse av leverandører og potensialer for å finne nye muligheter på leverandørsiden ved å studere samsvaret mellom en kundes og en leverandørs leverandørrelaterte nettverksbilder.This thesis explores supply management in business networks with a focus on innovation, capability development and network pictures. Innovation and capability development are studied as outcomes of interaction across company boundaries, and network pictures are studied as the views held by actors of the extent, structure and operation of the network, as well as the connections between the actors involved in it. The empirical basis of the research is three single case studies of medium-sized technological companies and a selection of their most important supplier relationships as well as their connections to third parties. Four papers are written based on the three case studies that in different ways contribute to discussions related to innovation involving suppliers, capability development involving suppliers and supplier-related network pictures. Paper 1 directs attention towards a variety of approaches to organizing supplier involvement in innovation processes by introducing a taxonomy. Paper 2 focuses on development and deployment of suppliers’ capabilities with emphasis on the impact of suppliers’ customer relationships. Paper 3 deals with the use of network pictures for managing key suppliers in their network context. Paper 4 directs attention towards supplier development and the influence of the business network in which the supplier development efforts are embedded. It is demonstrated that third parties play a particularly important role for how suppliers develop and how innovation can be conducted, as well as providing opportunities or restrictions on the buyer-supplier relationship. Taking a managing-in-networks perspective highlights the potential for analysing the organization of suppliers in technological innovation by focusing on the scope of company involvement on the supplier side and on the degree of cooperation with the supplier. Furthermore, it is possible to analyse the development of suppliers’ capabilities by focusing on identifying relevant third parties and their importance for the development and deployment of a supplier’s specific capabilities, as well as on how third parties may be activated for developing suppliers. Lastly, it is highlighted that that it is possible to analyse supplier management and potentials for finding new opportunities on the supply side by studying the congruence between a buyer’s and a supplier’s supplier-related network pictures
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Nozu, Emiko. "Exploring service innovation capability in virtual servicescapes: An Australian higher education case." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2018. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/120278/1/Emiko_Nozu_Thesis.pdf.
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The proliferation of digital technologies has seen many organisations transformed their services from physical-only to digital-only or blended. Yet, there is little knowledge about how higher education providers can best respond to the changes triggered by this inevitable digital evolution. This thesis explored this topic focused on organisational routine, innovation capability and service-environment (servicescape). The contributions are three-fold. First, there is a critical mechanism of interdependency in routine change. Second, the level of interdependency varies whether it is a radical innovation or incremental change. Third, different degrees of virtuality in servicescape create unique patterns for interdependencies, stakeholder relationships, and the digital divide.
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Song, Yue. "The Role of Firm Capability, Managerial Cognition, and Ecosystem on Innovation: Investigation of The Satellite Industry." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/86410.
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In this dissertation, I systematically explore the nature and role of two firm capabilities: absorptive capacity (or external learning capability) and technological capability. I examine how firm capability interacts with intra-firm and industry factors, and how it impacts organizational outcomes. In the first paper, I review literature on absorptive capacity and distill its distinct effect on various organizational outcomes. I identify key theoretical underpinnings behind the diverse conceptualizations of absorptive capacity and their corresponding measures, and use meta-analytical techniques to synthesize the effects of absorptive capacity. The second and third papers of my dissertation examine how technological capability interacts with certain internal and external contingency factors in influencing firm innovation and industry evolution. In the second paper, I take an intra-firm focus, and I identify managerial cognition as an important internal factor that impacts the relationship between technological capability and innovation. More specifically, I study how a firm's technological competence interacts with managerial experience in shaping that firm's innovation choices. Using data from the satellite industry, I show that diversity and relatedness of technological resource, as well as CEO experience, work differently in shaping product versus application innovations. In the third paper, I investigate how capabilities beyond focal technology producers influence industry evolution. Based on longitudinal analyses of the evolution of the satellite industry, I show that complementors, component suppliers, and customers are important external factors that shape industry evolution. Overall, my dissertation demonstrates the interrelated roles of firm capability, managerial cognition, and innovation ecosystem on firm and industry-level outcomes.Ph. D.
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Williams, Barry Owen. "The influence of dynamic capabilities on innovation capability in dynamic high velocity environments." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1018577.
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The current business environment is experiencing increased levels of uncertainty, competition and change. Influenced by forces such as globalisation, fast paced technological change, recession and emerging markets, the current business environment is required to continuously adapt to these conditions and deliver new products or services to an increasingly demanding market. Such dynamic environments are characterised by fast and unpredictable changes that place traditional competitive advantages under pressure, requiring a continual pursuit of temporary game changers or radical disruptors. With radical innovation considered to be one of the key drivers of disruption and success within these environments, it has become critical for organisations to create a sustainable stream of new products that push the boundaries of technology and that ensures that those organisations stay ahead of their competitors. In dynamic environments, success is short-lived and temporary gains are quickly eroded as the competition catches up or jumps ahead. The ability for continual change, agility, ambidexterity and superior decision making, all contribute to maintaining the current advantages and quickly closing widening gaps in the innovation race. This study investigates the degree to which these dynamic capabilities influence an organisation’s innovation capability.
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Kuo, Ting-Kuei. "Innovation capability reconfiguration of firms in advanced developing countries : the case of Taiwan." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.611644.
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Tikas, Gaurav. "Predicting Innovation Capability at Team Level: An Exploratory Analysis." Thesis, 2018. https://etd.iisc.ac.in/handle/2005/4095.
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Innovation is one of the major concerns for technology-driven organizations. Extensive amount of literature is available on ‘managing innovation’ within organizations at individual level as well as firm level. However, ‘innovation’ today is emerging as a ‘team-level’ phenomenon and organizations are increasingly using ‘teams’ as an important tool to harness employee talents.Unfortunately, the existing literature on ‘managing innovation’ at team-level, seems to suffer from several inconsistencies in definition, conceptualization and modelling of the phenomenon. This current research work is an attempt to explore some of these inconsistenciesand improve upon them in order to build long-term ‘innovation capabilities’ in research teams operating in technology-driven organizations. A multivariate cross-level conceptual model has been proposed to identify those "organizational-level" factors which significantly impact ‘innovation capabilities’ of research teams operating in government-funded research organizations in India.
This top-down cross-level model assesses the impact of five organizational-level (higher-level) factors (leadership, culture, structure, knowledge, network) on team-level (lower-level) innovation capability through two team-level mediating factors (‘focus’ and ‘intensity’ of team’s efforts towards innovation). Stratified sampling technique was used to collect responses through an online questionnaire from 136 research teams operating in some of the most elite government-funded research organizations pursuing cutting-edge academic or industrial research. Factor Analysis (FA) and Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was used to identify those factors which tend to significantly influence the ‘innovation capability’ of research teams. Results were validated byusing the‘triangulation’ approach through descriptive case studies. Triangulation helped us in contrasting and comparing the results acrossacademic and industrial research organizations.
Findings revealed the composition of ‘team-level innovation capability’ as a bivariate construct constituted of aspects such as ‘manifestation’ and ‘customer-orientation’. Importance of mediators such as ‘team focus’ and ‘team intensity’ while mediating the impact of organizational-level ‘cardinal’ factors such as ‘leadership’ and ‘expertise’ on ‘team-level innovation capability’ was found to be significant. The top-down influence of organizational-level ‘flexibility’ for academic research organizations and ‘knowledge protection’ for industrial research organizations was also found to be significant. Conceptualization and validation of this multivariate cross-level model to predict ‘team-level innovation capability’ can be considered as an important theoretical contribution of this study.Methodologically, it integrates the findings from theoretical literature, statistical analysis and empirical case studies to come up with a robust framework to predict innovation capability at team levels.Construction ofthis robustand empirically validated modelwhich can be used by theTop Management Teams (TMTs) at technology-driven organizations for diagnostic, interventional and organizational developmental purposesmay be considered as one of the major practical contributions of this study.
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SU, PO-WEI, and 蘇柏瑋. "Determinants of Technological Innovation Capability." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2re28g.
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碩士大葉大學
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The paper explores determinants of technological innovation capability in high-tech and manufacturing industries. The technology innovation capabilities (TICs) can be conceptualized as multi-criteria complex problems that involve the simultaneous consideration of multiple quantitative and qualitative requirements. This study surveys TICs criteria by Modified Delphi method and analyzes TICs interrelationships by applying the Fuzzy Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (Fuzzy-DEMATEL) method. Fuzzy-DEMATEL is applied to analyze the causal relationships among the criteria and sub-criteria. Based on the literature reviews, six main criteria and twenty sub-criteria were extracted and then validated by seventeen experts. A questionnaire was constructed and evaluated by twenty-six experts. Then the Fuzzy-DEMATEL method was applied to analyze the importance of criteria and the casual relations among the criteria were constructed. The result showed that the innovation management capability was the most important criterionin criteria level and influenced the other criteria; in sub-criteria level, the sub-criterion absorptive capability was the most important and influenced the other sub-criterion.
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Lai, Chung-Ching, and 賴鍾慶. "The Effect of The Sources of Innovation Capability and Innovation Capability on Technology Commercialization Performance." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/40992108006169116066.
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碩士國立中興大學
企業管理學系研究所
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Technology commercialization not only contributes to profit for company，but also be good for adding value. But company needs many kinds of capabilities in order to have good technology commercialization performance. It refers to a company’s ability to: (1) develop and introduce a large number of product and process technologies ; (2) create radically new products；(3) expedite the introduction of these new products to the market and； (4) create new knowledge. Innovation capability is the key point in the above-mentioned four capabilities. About the sources of innovation capability，it is possibly coming from the internal or external part of the company. This study generalizing and integrating the definition、category and measurement dimension about innovation capability、the sources of capability、technology commercialization performance and environment uncertainty from domestic and foreign scholars，in order to build up the study’s framework and the subsequent inference of hypotheses. This study using questionnaire to verify the hypotheses，the population are Taiwan electronic companies and the test subject are R&D department managers. The findings of the study are：「technology scaning 、personal skills and innovation culture」 and 「R&D efforts and technology penetration」of the internal source of innovation capability and 「the networking intensity and proximity advantage with customers and suppliers」and「the support from domestic institutions」of the external source of innovation capability will influence directly innovation capability. Innovation capability also will influence directly all dimensions of the technology commercialization performance. About the interference effort，when innovation capability influence directly the 「market scope and profit of the product」of the technology commercialization performance，environment uncertainty will have directly interference effort.
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Ou, Chueh-Chu, and 歐珏竹. "Human Capital, Social Capital and Service Innovation Capability: A Dynamic Capability View." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/10467284845931427495.
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企業管理學系所
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In a highly competitive market and rapidly changing environment, how to develop the competitive strategy and differentiated activites will be a key to businesses to build a long-team stable profit model. This study suggests the purpose of response to dynamic market; the firm should dvelop service innovation activities in order to achieve the goal. Thus this study combines the concept of dynamic capability and service innovation, and explor how the firm’s external and internal factors (i.e., human capital and social capital) promote the development of service innovation capabilities, and thus enhance organizational performance. This study’s hypothesis is largey supported by the result. The result find that (1) human capital (i.e., top manager and employees ) has positive impact on the service innovation capability. (2) social capital (i.e., relation dimenation) has positive impact on the service innovation capability. (3) service innovation capabily has positive impact on organization performance. Finally, implications of the present study and directions for future research are discussed.
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Hu, Yu-Ju, and 胡郁如. "The Effect of Big Data Analysis Capability on Sensemaking and Innovation Capability." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/n9q8ud.
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碩士國立臺灣科技大學
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With the rapid development of information technology and the rapid changes in the market environment, big data has gradually been valued by various industries and governments. Big Data break into four dimensions: volume, variety, velocity and veracity, and will have a huge impact on absorptive capacity and organizational sensemaking. Enterprises can enhance their learning ability, collaborative collaboration capabilities, and acquire more new knowledge through big data analysis, and allow organizations to have better market insights to create innovation and maintain competitiveness. However, how to improve the effectiveness of big data analysis to enhance organizational innovation has always been a problem that needs to be explored. Because big data analysis often requires cross-departmental teamwork, this study selects organizational absorptive capacity and organizational sensemaking ability to study the impact on organizational innovation capabilities. This study is investigates the top600 Taiwanese manufacturers, top300 service industries and top100 financial industry issued by CommonWealth Magazine of Taiwan in 2016. The research results reveal that: （1）BDA infrastructure capabilities have a nonsignificant impact on Absorptive Capability and Organizational Sensemaking. BDA management capability has a significant and positive impact on Absorptive Capability and Organizational Sensemaking. BDA personnel capability has a significant and positive impact on Absorptive Capability and Organizational Sensemaking. （2）Absorptive Capability and Organizational Sensemaking has a significant positive impact on Organizational Innovation.
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Alam, Md Shahedul. "Technology-Scanning Capability and Market-Scanning Capability as Drivers of Product Innovation Performance." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/6137.
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Changing trends in customer preference, competitors’ offerings, new technologies and development techniques may disrupt a firm from its current leading market position and may favor other firms that prioritize innovation. Once a market opportunity is identified (i.e., find an answer to the ‘what to do’ question), firms need to engage in a series of activities and information processing to determine an appropriate way to monetize that opportunity – that is, firms need to find an answer to the ‘how to do’ question. Alternately, a firm may first identify a technological opportunity (i.e. find an answer to the ‘how to do’) and then find a market opportunity (i.e. find an answer to the ‘what to do’ question) to make use of the technological opportunity. Two scales that measure the capabilities of firms to address the following two questions – ‘what to do’ and ‘how to do’ - were reported; these were labelled as market-scanning capability (MktScan) and technology-scanning capability (TechScan); and these two scales were also tested in a broader research model.
In turbulent environments, marketing and R&D become more challenging, since they face an uncertain future. Firms need to learn systemic scanning and decoding of apparently random changes in their business environment and imagine a pattern that makes sense. One cannot plan for uncertainty. A better strategy is to be prepared for it. One way to prepare is to develop the capabilities that would help the firm to become more adaptive. Drucker (1992) also argued that instead of planning for the long term that is uncertain, firms needed to become adaptive to tackle uncertainty. The ability of a firm to adapt to the changes depends on its ability to sense the nature of the changes in its business environment and respond to those. Sense-and-respond framework (Haeckel 1999; Haeckel 2000; Day and Schoemaker 2006) was proposed to emphasize the identification of weak signals (Ansoff 1975) to tackle increased uncertainty in business environment. In current days, effectiveness of firm’s activities often depends on the richness of its sources of information and its capability to process the collected information to identify the patterns of change happening in its business environments. Information processing may happen in two dimensions: in market dimension and in technology dimension. Firms’ capabilities for information collecting and processing in these two dimensions were measured using two firm-level constructs. These are market-scanning capability and technology-scanning capability.
Resource-based theory helped to understand how firms use their tangible and intangible resources to compete in the market. Specific problem-solving aspects of the processes, activities, and cultural norms enable firms to make decisions about engaging the available resources and capabilities in ways that maximize customer value, by realizing the identified opportunities into product and service offerings. This research identified the characteristic strength of this problem-solving approach of firms – collecting information both internally and externally about possible market opportunities and technological options, organization-wide processing of that information, and taking actions to respond using insights gained – as two latent constructs called ‘market-scanning capability’ and ‘technology-scanning capability’.
The concepts of ‘market-scanning capability’ and ‘technology-scanning capability’ were first defined and then, scales were developed to enable researchers and managers to measure these firm-level constructs. Next, the predictive roles of these capabilities on firm performance were examined. Empirical analysis for scale development and validation of the research model were performed with data collected through a web-based survey of Canadian manufacturing firms.
Firm performance was captured in two stages – first, by product innovation performance, and second, by overall firm performance. Product innovation performance was used as an intermediate performance measure to examine the direct influence on it of market-scanning capability and technology-scanning capability, and then, to relate product innovation performance to final business outcome measured using ‘overall firm performance’ scale. The study validated the notion of resource-based theory by supporting the belief that higher levels of market-scanning capability and technology-scanning capability would lead to improved product innovation performance. The role of environmental turbulence was also examined for its possible moderating effect. Two measures of environmental turbulence, namely, technology and market turbulence were used to test the moderation effect. The technology turbulence construct was found to have a moderating effect on the relationship between technology-scanning capability and product innovation performance, indicating that firms needed to focus more attention on the changes in the technology landscape when turbulence in the technological field was perceived to be higher, in order to keep the same level of product innovation performance.
Insight gained from the study contributed to a knowledge-base that might be useful to both practitioners and researchers. The combination of TechScan and MktScan scales could be used as a benchmark tool by managers to assess firms’ readiness to take advantage of the opportunities that existed. On the theoretical side, the study contributed to the understanding by showing that both market-scanning capability and technology-scanning capability had direct and indirect influences on firm performance. Also, it was found that the indirect influence of a certain scanning capability became important when firms were pre-disposed to emphasize the other scanning capability.
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Yang, Chia Wen, and 楊嘉雯. "Effects on absorptive capability and integrated capability to knowledge innovation and sustainable advantage." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24682496227831903823.
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碩士國立屏東科技大學
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In the age of knowledge-based economy, rapid technological development has shorten product-life-cycle and forge continuous innovation. For the purpose of obtaining competitive advantages, the key to survive and position oneself in the industry, innovation activities thus need to adapt the dynamics of environmental changes. In the past decade, research on knowledge innovation has attracted researchers interests, however, there are still many unresolved issues. This study attempts to examine the effects on external and internal abilities (absorptive and integrate abilities) to knowledge innovation and sustainable advantages. 297 questionnaires to companies in manufacture, distribution, and finance industries were collected. Through correlation and LISREL analyses, five major conclusions were made: 1). Absorptive ability, integrated ability, knowledge innovation and sustainable advantage are significantly correlated. 2). Empirical test with LISREL shows the fitness of proposed research model. 3). The model also indicates assimilate capability has significant effects on management innovation and acquire capacity has significant effects on knowledge innovation. However, external capability does not have significant effect on knowledge innovation. Product innovation and management innovation both have significant effects on sustainable advantage. 4). Knowledge ambiguity mediates the nature of the relationship between knowledge innovation and sustainable advantage. 5). The model fits the industry of manufacture, distribution and finance. Nevertheless, knowledge ambiguity’s mediated effect only showed in manufacture and distribution industry. Based on the research results, research and practical implications were addressed.
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Cho, Chiou-Ji, and 卓秋季. "The Relationship between OEM Model and Innovation Capability." Thesis, 1998. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/25979047605282449918.
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Ting, Chao-Yi, and 丁肇儀. "Knowledge Management Capability, Knowledge Sharing and Innovation Performance." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/30843790086720624735.
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碩士銘傳大學
國際企業學系碩士班
100
Within the knowledge economy era, knowledge creation as one of the important issue for knowledge management. Appropriate knowledge creation mechanisms can facilitate both the quality and quantity of organizational knowledge, and maintain a sustainable competitive advantage. However, knowledge is different from general merchandise, the knowledge can spread throughout the organization by sharing behavior between the members, and then create a new value or to expand the value of knowledge. The purpose of this research is to build a framework, the samples are general manufacturing and high-tech manufacturing in this research, and total 169 valid samples, through questionnaires survey and data analysis, the following results were found: 1.The knowledge Management Capability significantly positive effect relationship knowledge sharing. 2.The knowledge sharing significantly positive effect relationship innovation performance. 3.The Knowledge routine will not have to strengthen the moderator effect between knowledge sharing and innovation performance. 4.The Knowledge routine will not have to weaken the moderator effect between knowledge sharing and innovation performance.
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Wu, Chun-Yi, and 吳俊儀. "Dynamic Capability and Its Effects on Service Innovation." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/98276052669653420447.
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碩士元智大學
經營管理碩士班(企業管理與服務科學學程)
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This research focuses on the influences of dynamic capabilities on service innovation and further examines the mediating effects of generic human capital and specific human capital on dynamic capabilities and service innovation. We came up with several hypotheses based on service-dominant logic (SDL), service innovation, contingency theory, dynamic capability view and multilevel theory of human capital. According to our study, the IT and sales departments of ICT industry in Taiwan will be our target. There are 255 questionnaires were collected from 225 companies (146 from IT department and 109 from sales department). This study adopted SPSS and Smart PLS 2.0 to analyze the data. The result showed that dynamic capabilities had a positive effect on service innovation, generic human capital and specific human capital. Moreover, generic human capital played a mediating role between dynamic capabilities and service innovation. In the end of this study, we will provide some contributions and implications that will be delivered to this industry.
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Lin, Hsiao-chu, and 林筱筑. "The Influence of Collaboration Capability on Innovation Performance." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15704836589754043855.
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碩士國立中正大學
企業管理所
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In facing the fast-changing environment, the most used strategy of the enterprise is strategy alliance. However, most of related research only discusses the network relationship between enterprise and their partners. Only few researchers discuss collaboration capability in the partnership, and it still lacks a complete constructive explanation. Based on the research gap above, this study brings up four main aspects influencing collaboration capability - partnership orientation, customer linking capability, communication behavior and coordination activity. The purpose of this essay is trying to figure out whether these four aspects of collaboration capability were positively associated with knowledge transfer and how knowledge transfer influences the firm’s innovation performance. The samples of questionnaire survey are mainly from 14 industries in Taiwan (according to the industry category by China Credit Information Service in 2007.) This study targets on managers, product managers, marketing managers, environmental managers and senior engineers. 300 questionnaires were sent out during the period of Jun.2009~ Mar.2010. 151 valid questionnaires were returned and the retrieving rate was 50.3%. SPSS 15.0 was used to analyze survey data. Data analysis include descriptive statistics, credibility analysis Regression analysis is used to examine the proposed hypotheses. The results of this study shows: (1) knowledge transfer has positive influence over partnership orientation, customer linking capability, communication behavior and coordination activity, (2)knowledge transfer is positive associated with innovation performance, and (3)the degree of positive impact of knowledge transfer on the innovation performance was not mediated by absorptive capability.
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Chen, Kuan-Li, and 陳冠利. "The Study of Organizational Dynamic Innovation Capability Model." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/35110769211414221852.
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博士國立臺灣師範大學
科技應用與人力資源發展學系
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Technology and management innovation must be successful in integrating into organizational structure and system while facing intense competition and technology improvement fast. Innovation capabilities that successfully implement new idea, product, process, or management system is crucial for performance improvement who often achieves competitive advantage by delivering new products to the market. Moreover, organization can be in concert with business environment through the concept of dynamic capability in globalized economic environment. As mentioned above, organizational dynamic innovation capability (ODIC) may be critically important for organizational competitiveness. However, there was few empirical study of ODIC. The purpose of this study was to explore and verify the concept of ODIC, and then examine the relationships between ODIC, organizational innovation (OI), and individual innovation (II). This study obtained four factor and 31 items from literature on organizational innovation and dynamic capability. A stratified random sample was drawn from a list of information technology industry. In order to gain and verify the factors structure, exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, a series examination of concept validation, and path analysis were conducted. The result showed that 1).ODIC are composed of seven factors and has stable factor structure and great reliability. 2). ODIC has significant and positive effect on organizational innovation. 3.) ODIC has significant and positive effect on individual innovation.
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CHAO, LI-AN, and 趙苙安. "The Impact of Innovation Capability on Stock Value." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/nm4su4.
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碩士東海大學
財務金融學系
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In recent years, corporate innovation capability has become a meaningful indicator of the firms’ future profitability. However, innovation capability may lead to positive or negative effects on stock value. We use the listed companies in Taiwan from 2005 to 2016. To investigate the effects of innovation capability on stock value, we employ intangible assets, R&D expenditure, and the number of patents as the major explanatory variables to proxy for innovation capability. Furthermore, we examine whether the effects vary across different industries or different life cycle stages. Empirical results show that innovation capability produces different effects on stock value. Due to the higher degree of demand for innovation in the electronic industry, the stock price response to innovation capability is more significant than that of the other industries. However, it appears that investors hold a reserved attitude towards electronic firms’ innovation investment because of the observed negative relation between innovation and stock price. Furthermore, when the firms are in the growth stage, investors may avoid future uncertainties on their investment and hence result in a negative relation between the firm's innovation investment and stock price. In mature stage, firms have improved their management system and owned more resources. The effect of intangible assets on stock price is negative but the R&D expenditure has positive effect on stock price. When the firms in the decline stage, the stock market respond positively to innovation capability. We also find that the number of patents generate a positive effect on stock price across different industries or different life cycle stages.