Abstract
Abstract: The capability of organizational innovation is an important factor for the company to achieve a higher competitive performance. Understanding how innovation capability emerges, develops, and applies could bring important managerial and scientific contributions. This study investigates the main research results regarding the capability of organizational innovation, indicating some theoretical propositions for future studies, based on the systematic review of the literature. The research aimed to identify the determinants of organizational innovation capability and the context in which the studies are carried out. We conducted a systematic literature review based on the Web of Science database. We identified and analyzed 33 papers through the analysis of content. This study presents several research results regarding the capability of innovation in organizations, divided into internal, external and determinant aspects of innovation capability, as well as the collection of propositions for guiding a research project in depth in questions to be tested in future research. The study also brings practical contributions, as it shows in which context each study on determinants of identified innovation capability is applied, and points out the importance of innovation capability in small companies and in countries.
Highlights
Innovation capability of a company is linked to the internal efforts of human, technological and organizational resources, combined with the ability to interact with the external environment to pursue resources, knowledge and skills to be incorporated into the organization to create new products and processes that are perceived and valued by stakeholders (Lawson & Samson, 2001)
Valladares et al (2014) identified determinants of innovation capability based on a systematic review of the literature, namely transformative leadership, strategic intent to innovate, people management for innovation, knowledge of customers and the market, strategic technology management, organizational structure, and project management
This study is structured as follows: introduction; theoretical reference with the conceptualization of innovation and capability for innovation; methodological procedures of the construction of the systematic literature review; the results and the discussion bringing the contributions of the literature to innovation capability in the internal and external environments and the determinants of the innovation capability and the relation of innovation capability in small companies and in different countries, as well as a connection of the studies reviewed and propositions for a framework of questions that could be investigated in detail in future studies in the field; and the final considerations
Summary
Innovation capability of a company is linked to the internal efforts of human, technological and organizational resources, combined with the ability to interact with the external environment to pursue resources, knowledge and skills to be incorporated into the organization to create new products and processes that are perceived and valued by stakeholders (Lawson & Samson, 2001). Valladares et al (2014) identified determinants of innovation capability based on a systematic review of the literature, namely transformative leadership, strategic intent to innovate, people management for innovation, knowledge of customers and the market, strategic technology management, organizational structure, and project management In this sense, this study brings scientific contributions, as it presents updated results of several studies regarding the capability of innovation in organizations, divided into internal, external aspects and determinants of innovation capability, proposing guidance for research projects. This study is structured as follows: introduction; theoretical reference with the conceptualization of innovation and capability for innovation; methodological procedures of the construction of the systematic literature review; the results and the discussion bringing the contributions of the literature to innovation capability in the internal and external environments and the determinants of the innovation capability and the relation of innovation capability in small companies and in different countries, as well as a connection of the studies reviewed and propositions for a framework of questions that could be investigated in detail in future studies in the field; and the final considerations
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