Outline
- Abstract
- Keywords
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Literature Review
- 3. Data and Method
- 3.1. Data
- 3.2. Fsqca in Innovation Research
- 4. Research Findings
- 5. Conclusion
- References
رئوس مطالب
- چکیده
- کلیدواژه ها
- مقدمه
- مروری بر ادبیات
- داده ها و روش
- FSQCA روشی نوآور
- یافته های تحقیق
- نتیجه گیری
Abstract
This study analyzes the effect of organizational characteristics on the innovation project performance. This research applies fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) to a large sample of Spanish firms appearing in the Community Innovation survey (CIS). The results show that the combination of organizational innovation, firm size and cooperation with national and, especially, international firms is a sufficient condition for the success of innovation projects within the organization. Evidence also suggests that variables such as the investment on R&D per employee or the seniority of the company do not affect the success of innovation projects. These findings help complement some results in previous studies on innovation projects performance.
Conclusions
This study examines organizational characteristics that affect innovation projects’ performance. The analysis uses fsQCA to identify combinations of causes that lead to success in innovation projects performance for Spanish firms. Organizational innovation, when the size of the firm is large and appears in combination with some kind of national or international cooperation, has an important effect on the success of innovation projects. Furthermore, this study also demonstrates the effect of organizational innovation in the ultimate success of the projects, even when firms do not have a large size but combine both types of cooperation with other firms and partners. Thus, firms belonging to national and international networks facilitate performance and ultimate success of innovation projects in Spanish companies confirming that organizational innovation (as an adoption of knowledge management, workplace organization, or external relation) is key and facilitates successful completion of the innovation projects.
Variables such as level of education of employees, expenditure on R&D per employee, or the age of the firm have no direct effect on the success of innovation projects in Spanish companies.
A main implication of this study for practitioners is that practitioners can clearly identify the keys to success in planning, development, and launch of an innovation project. This ability can help firms, in the early stages of any innovation project, to identify the type of partner with whom to ally, to improve the management of human resources of the firm, and to determine to what extent the firm should invest in organizational innovation.
This research has certain limitations, which may create opportunities for future investigations. For example, the research only addresses performance on innovation projects. Current research aims to obtain results for different types of projects (organizational, consulting, engineering, business development), for different business sectors, even comparing same firms in different European regions.