The Influence of Organizational Flexibility on Incremental Innovation and Radical Innovation

摘要：

Based upon the generalization of those theories in corporate technological innovation approaches, resources flexibility and competence flexibility, the essay presents a conceptual model and its relevant hypotheses.On analyzing the effective sample data from 463 enterprises of different industries in more than 10 provinces, we have confirmed the theoretical model. The results indicate that it is more appropriate for high competence flexible corporation to undertake incremental innovation and radical innovation, while it is more appropriate for high resource flexible corporation to undertake incremental innovation, not radical innovation. In practices,firms must improve organizational resource flexibility and competence flexibility, ensure that continuous innovations will reflect ever-changing external business environment,effectively avoid the risks in the process of innovation and create sustained competitive advantages.

关键词： Resource flexibility Competence flexibility Incremental innovation Radical innovation Technological innovation.

作者: Rui Xu Xiaoli Li

作者单位: School of Business Hubei University Wuhan, P. R. China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2007 Conference on Systems Science, Management Science and System Dynamics(第二届系统科学、管理科学与系统动力学国际会议)

会议地点: 上海

会议语种:英文

页码: 2519-2528

在线出版日期: 2007-10-19（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）