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Combinative Effects of Innovation Types and Organizational Performance: A Longitudinal Study of Service Organizations

Combinative Effects of Innovation Types and Organizational Performance: A Longitudinal Study of... abstract Innovation research suggests that innovation types have different attributes, determinants, and effects. This study focuses on consequences of adoption of three types of innovation (service, technological process, and administrative process) in service organizations. Its main thesis is that the impact of innovation on organizational performance depends on compositions of innovation types over time. We examine this proposition by analysing innovative activity in a panel of 428 public service organizations in the UK over four years. Our findings suggest that focus on adopting a specific type of innovation every year is detrimental, consistency in adopting the same composition of innovation types over the years has no effect, and divergence from the industry norm in adopting innovation types could possibly be beneficial to organizational performance. We discuss the implications of these findings for theory and research on innovation types. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Management Studies Wiley

Combinative Effects of Innovation Types and Organizational Performance: A Longitudinal Study of Service Organizations

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
© Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2009
ISSN
0022-2380
eISSN
1467-6486
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-6486.2008.00814.x
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Abstract

abstract Innovation research suggests that innovation types have different attributes, determinants, and effects. This study focuses on consequences of adoption of three types of innovation (service, technological process, and administrative process) in service organizations. Its main thesis is that the impact of innovation on organizational performance depends on compositions of innovation types over time. We examine this proposition by analysing innovative activity in a panel of 428 public service organizations in the UK over four years. Our findings suggest that focus on adopting a specific type of innovation every year is detrimental, consistency in adopting the same composition of innovation types over the years has no effect, and divergence from the industry norm in adopting innovation types could possibly be beneficial to organizational performance. We discuss the implications of these findings for theory and research on innovation types.

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Journal of Management StudiesWiley

Published: Jun 1, 2009

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