Abstract
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine what are both the main theoretical basis and the recent perspectives within the organizational innovation literature.Design/methodology/approachThe authors have conducted a bibliometric analysis reviewing the research on organizational innovation from 460 articles published in the period from 2007 to 2016 and indexed in the Web of Science through co-citation and bibliographical coupling analyses.FindingsThe clusters analysis results show that the main theoretical foundations are learning and evolution; implementation of innovation; and leadership, creativity and learning. Regarding recent perspectives, the clusters indicate studies on core concepts, knowledge and capability, learning for resource development and human resources for innovation.Originality/valueThis study organizes the knowledge basis for future research on organizational innovation, and, unlike most literature reviews, this study provides the current trends on the topic and presents a comprehensive research agenda.
Highlights
The importance of innovation to competitiveness is acknowledged
The focus is on organizational innovation, and this choice can be justified considering that this type of innovation has allowed firms to achieve new performance thresholds (Hamel, 2006) and has been under-researched (Sapprasert and Frequently, organizational innovation is called administrative or management innovation (Damanpour, 2014) and can be conceptualized as “how managers do what they do” (Hamel, 2006, p. 4)
4.1 Co-citation analysis: the theoretical foundations we present the clusters identified by means of co-citation analysis (Figure 1), that is, we explore the internal structure and uncover the main theoretical foundations
Summary
On the other hand, understanding the meaning of innovation is a little more controversial, mainly in the academic sphere (Birkinshaw et al, 2008), in which research is largely focused on technological innovation to the detriment of other types of innovation. This is because innovation is not one simple isolated act of companies; on the contrary, it is completely dependent on several mixed new or changed actions so that the company really increases competitiveness. Innovation: understanding of the meaning of innovation, it becomes necessary to understand it beyond past and future changing technology. The focus is on organizational innovation, and this choice can be justified considering that this type of innovation has allowed firms to achieve new performance thresholds (Hamel, 2006) and has been under-researched (Sapprasert and Clausen, 2012)
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