Title: Organisational innovativeness: its level, building blocks and relationships with interorganisational cooperation inside innovation networks

Authors: Patrycja Klimas

Addresses: Department of Management Theory, Faculty of Management, University of Economics in Katowice, Ul. 1 Maja 50, PC: 40-287 Katowice, Poland

Abstract: The significance of innovativeness for development and competitive advantage has been recognised for decades. The recent literature has acknowledged organisational innovativeness as a complex and multidimensional construct. Indeed, there have been some conceptual and methodological contributions to the structure, evaluation and measurement of multidimensionally-perceived organisational innovativeness. However, so far, there has been little empirical research on these issues. Furthermore, the results of prior studies remain ambiguous. Thus, this research focuses on organisational innovativeness and introduces its multidimensional conceptualisation into Polish aviation industry and innovation networks. The findings suggest that in case of aviation companies organisational innovativeness is a two-dimensional construct consisting of product and people innovativeness. Additionally, this paper aim at presentation of research results about potential interdependencies between organisational innovativeness and intra-network cooperation. The empirical evidence indicates that organisational innovativeness and its particular dimensions are positively related to cooperation inside innovation networks.

Keywords: organisational innovativeness; innovation networks; aviation industry; Poland; interorganisational cooperation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBE.2015.073181

International Journal of Business Environment, 2015 Vol.7 No.4, pp.373 - 395

Received: 11 Mar 2015
Accepted: 14 Jun 2015

Published online: 26 Nov 2015 *

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