Working Paper #2008-009
Crafting Firm Competencies to Improve Innovative Performance
Recent interdisciplinary research suggests that customer and
technological competencies have a direct, unconditional effect on firms'
innovative performance. This study extends this stream of literature by
considering the effect of organizational competencies. Results from a
survey-research executed in the fast moving consumer goods industry
suggest that firms that craft organizational competencies - such as
improving team cohesiveness and providing slack time to foster
creativity - do not directly improve their innovative performance.
However, those firms that successfully combine customer, technological
and organizational competencies will create more innovations that are
new to the market.
- Keywords
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- Firm competencies
- radical and incremental product innovation
- team cohesiveness UNU-MERIT Working Papers ISSN 1871-9872
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APA 7th ed.Lokshin, B., van Gils, A., & Bauer, E. (2008). Crafting Firm Competencies to Improve Innovative Performance (UNU-MERIT Working Paper No. 2008-009). UNU-MERIT. https://unu-merit.nl/publications/working-papers/abstract/?id=3027