Knowledge Sharing Process, Innovation Capability and Innovation Performance: An Empirical Study

The aim of this chapter is to analyze the degree of influence of different organizational enablers (i.e., “structural capital”) on knowledge sharing, as well as the influence of the latter and other structural capital components on innovation capability, both from a theoretical and empirical perspective. Additionally, the relevance of different innovation capability dimensions (i.e., ideation, project management, and timeliness and cost efficiency) on business competitiveness will be examined. For these relationships to be tested, an empirical study has been carried out among Spanish manufacturing firms with more than 50 employees and with R&D activities. To this end, a questionnaire has been designed and submitted to the CEOs of the companies making up the target population of the research. Structural equation modelling (SEM) based on partial least squares (PLS) has then been applied in order to test the main hypotheses of the research.

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The Effect of Product Innovation, Process Innovation, and Marketing Innovation on Innovation Capability and Knowledge Sharing of Ventures : Focusing on the Moderating Effect of Business Area

The Korea Entrepreneurship Society ◽

10.24878/tkes.2017.12.4.097 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 12 (4) ◽

pp. 97-122

Author(s):

Sang-Jib Kwon ◽

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Sharing ◽

Product Innovation ◽

Innovation Process ◽

Process Innovation ◽

Moderating Effect ◽

Innovation Capability ◽

Marketing Innovation ◽

Business Area

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EXPLORING THE LINK BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE SHARING ENABLERS, INNOVATION CAPABILITY AND INNOVATION PERFORMANCE

International Journal of Innovation Management ◽

10.1142/s1363919613500187 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 17 (04) ◽

pp. 1350018 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

SALIH YEŞIL ◽

TUBA BÜYÜKBEŞE ◽

ALAEDDIN KOSKA

Keyword(s):

Positive Affect ◽

Knowledge Sharing ◽

Innovation Performance ◽

Global Competition ◽

Innovation Capability ◽

Technological Changes ◽

Business World ◽

Easy Task ◽

The Relationship ◽

Positive Effect

The intense global competition, rapid technological changes, and higher consumer demands along with increasing uncertainty and risk; all threaten the life of the companies and force them to be more creative and innovative. Thus, business world needs innovative ideas more than ever. Hence, companies struggle to increase their innovative capacities in order to be more competitive. At the same time, performing innovation is not an easy task, it is a process that requires tremendous effort and changes in several parts of business. The number of studies on innovation has increased. Different aspects of innovation from theoretical and practical points of views have been studied so far. This study aims to investigate the effect of knowledge sharing enablers on innovation capability along with the relationship between innovation capability and innovation performance. The findings from the research revealed that some of the components of knowledge sharing enablers have positive effect on the innovation capability, while others have not. Also, remarkable findings on significant positive affect of innovation capability on innovation performance were obtained.

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