Organizational innovation favors technological
innovation, but does it also influence technological innovation
persistence? This article investigates empirically the pattern of
technological innovation persistence and tests the potential impact of
organizational innovation using firm-level data from three waves of
the French Community Innovation Surveys. Evidence shows a
positive effect of organizational innovation on technological
innovation persistence, according to various measures of
organizational innovation. Moreover, this impact is more significant
for complex innovators (i.e., those who innovate in both products and
processes). These results highlight the complexity of managing
organizational practices with regard to the firm-s technological
innovation. They also add to comprehension of the drivers of
innovation persistence, through a focus on an often forgotten
dimension of innovation in a broader sense.
[1] C. Antonelli, F. Crespi and G. Scellato, "Inside innovation persistence:
New evidence from Italian micro-data". Structural Change and
Economic Dynamics, 2012, forthcoming.
[2] H. Armbruster, A. Bikfalvib, S. Kinkela and G. Lay, "Organizational
innovation: The challenge of measuring non-technical innovation in
large-scale surveys". Technovation, vol. 28, p. 644-657, 2008
[3] J.V. Baldridge and R.A. Burnham, "Organizational Innovation:
Individual, Organizational, and Environmental Impacts", Administrative
Science Quarterly, vol.20, p. 165-176, 1975
[4] G. Battisti and P. Stoneman, "How innovative are UK firms? Evidence
from the CIS4 on synergies between technological and organizational
innovations", British Journal of Management, vol. 34, no.1, p. 187-206,
2010
[5] S. Bharadwaj and A. Menon, "Making innovation happen in
organizations: Individual creativity mechanisms, organizational
creativity mechanisms or both", Journal of Product Innovation
Management, vol. 17, no.6, p.424-434, 2000
[6] M.D. Cohen and D.A. Levinthal, "Absorptive capacity: A new
perspective on learning innovation", Administrative Science Quarterly
vol.35, no.1, p.128-152, 1990.
[7] W.M. Cohen, Empirical Studies of Innovative Activity. Chapter 6 of
Handbook of the Economics of Innovation and Technological Change.
Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.
[8] A. Colombelli, N. Haned and C. Le Bas, "On firm growth and
innovation. Some new empirical perspectives using French CIS (1992-
2004)", ICER working paper, 2010.
[9] C. Cordelier, "Innovations et performances des sociétés des services et
de l'industrie manufacturière, comparaisons", Working paper E
2009/06, INSEE, France. 2009.
[10] M. Crossan and M. Apaydin, "A multi-dimensional framework of
organizational innovation". Journal of Management Studies, vol.47,
no.6, p.1154-1191, 2010.
[11] R.L. Daft, "A dual-core model of organizational innovation". Academy
of Management Review, vol.21, p.193-210, 1978.
[12] F. Damanpour, "Organizational innovation: a meta-analysis of effects of
determinants and moderators". Academy of Management Journal,
vol.34, no.3, p.550-90, 1991.
[13] F. Damanpour, "Organizational size and innovation". Organization
Studies, vol.13, no.3, p.375-402, 1992.
[14] F. Damanpour and D. Aravind, Product and process innovations: a
review of organizational and environmental determinants. In Innovation,
Science, and Institutional Change, Ed. J. Hage and M. Meeus. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2006.
[15] F. Damanpour and W.M. Evan, "Organizational innovation and
performance: the problem of organizational lag". Administrative Science
Quarterly, vol.29, p.392-402, 1984.
[16] D. Dougherty, "A practice-centered model of organizational renewal
through product innovation". Strategic Management Journal, vol.23, p.
77-92, 1992.
[17] E. Duguet and S. Monjon, « Les fondements microéconomiques de la
persistance de l'innovation: Une analyse économétrique ». Revue
Économique, vol.53, no.3, p.625-636, 2002.
[18] R. Evangelista, R. and A.Vezzani, "The economic impact of
technological and organizational innovations. A firm-level analysis".
Research Policy, vol.39, p.1253-1263, 2010.
[19] P.A. Geroski, J. van Reenen and C.F. Walters, "How persistently do
firms innovate?". Research Policy, vol.26, no.1, p.33-48, 1997.
[20] N. Greenan, D. Guellec, G. Broussaudier and L. Miotti, "Innovation
organisationnelle, dynamisme technologique et performance des
entreprises ». Working paper G9304/ April, INSEE, France, 1993.
[21] L. Gumusluo─ƒlu and A. Ilsev, "Transformational leadership and
organizational innovation: the roles of internal and external support for
innovation". Journal of Product Innovation Management, vol.26,
p.264-277, 2009.
[22] G. Gunday, G. Ulusoy, K. Kilic and L. Alpkan, "Effects of innovation
types on firm performance". International Journal of Production
Economics, vol.133, no.2, p.662-676, 2011.
[23] J.J. Heckman, "The incidental parameters problem and the problem of
initial conditions in estimating a discrete time discrete data stochastic
process". In The structural analysis of discrete. Ed. C. Manski and D.
McFadden. Boston: MIT Press, 1981.
[24] R. Henderson, R. and K. Clark, "Architectural innovation: the
reconfiguration of existing product technologies and the failure of
established firms". Administrative Science Quarterly, vol.35, p.9-30,
1990.
[25] J.R. Kimberly and M.J. Evanisko, "Organizational Innovation: the
influence of individual, organizational, and contextual factors on
hospital adoption of technological and administrative innovations".
Academy of Management Journal, vol.24, no.4, p.689-713, 1981.
[26] A. Lam, "Organizational innovation". In The Oxford Handbook of
Innovation, ed. Jan Fagerberg J., Mowery D.C., Nelson R.R. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2005.
[27] W. Latham and C. Le Bas, The Economics of Persistent Innovation,
Berlin and New York: Springer, 2006.
[28] C. Le Bas and N. Poussing, « Are complex innovators more persistent
than single innovators? An empirical analysis of innovation persistence
drivers". Working Paper 1201, GATE, Lyon Saint-Etienne, France,
2012.
[29] B. Lokshin, A. Van Gils and E. Bauer, ÔÇ×Crafting firm competencies to
improve innovative performance". Working Paper, UNU-MERIT,
available at:
http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2008/wp2008-009.pdf
(accessed 12 November 2011), 2008a.
[30] B. Lokshin, R. Belderbos and M. Carree, "The productivity effects of
internal and external R&D: evidence from a dynamic panel data model".
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, vol.70, no.3, p.399-413,
2008b.
[31] J.H. Love and S. Roper, "Location and network effects on innovation
success: evidence for UK, German and Irish manufacturing plants".
Research Policy, vol.30,no.4, p.643-661, 2001.
[32] J. Mairesse and P. Mohnen, "Using innovations surveys for econometric
analysis". NBER working paper series 15857.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w15857, 2010.
[33] C. Mothe and T.U. Nguyen-Thi, "The link between non technological
innovations and technological innovation". European Journal of
Innovation Management, vol.13, no.3, p.313-332, 2010.
[34] C. Mothe C. and T.U. Nguyen-Thi, "Non-technological and
technological innovations: Do services differ from manufacturing? An
empirical analysis of Luxembourg firms", International Journal of
Technology Management, forthcoming.
[35] R.R. Nelson and S.G. Winter, An Evolutionary Theory of Economic
Change. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press: Cambridge,
1982.
[36] OECD. 2005. Oslo Manual. 3rd edition
[37] K. Pavitt, "Innovation Processes". In Jan Fagerberg J., . Mowery D.C.,
Nelson R.R., Eds, The Oxford Handbook of Innovation. Oxford
Handbooks in Business and Management. p.86-114, 2005.
[38] E.T. Penrose, The Theory of the Growth of the Firm. New York: John
Wiley, 1959.
[39] B. Peters, "Persistence Effects of Innovation Activities. In Peters, B, Ed,
Innovation and firm performance". Physica Verlag, Zew Economic
Studies 38, p. 151-199, 2008.
[40] R. Phillips, "Innovation and firm performance in Australian
manufacturing, industry commission", Staff Research Paper, Canberra,
1997.
[41] M. Polder M, G.V. Leeuwen, P. Mohnen and W. Raymond, "Product,
process and organizational innovation: drivers, complementarity and
productivity effects", United Nations University - Maastricht Economic
and social Research and training centre on Innovation and Technology,
Maastricht, The Netherlands, 2010.
[42] W. Raymond, P. Mohnen, F.C. Palm and S. Schim Van Der Loeff,
"Persistence of innovation in Dutch manufacturing: Is it spurious?"
Review of Economics and Statistics, vol.92,no.3, p.495-504, 2010.
[43] T. Schmidt and C. Rammer, "Non-technological and technological
innovation: strange bedfellows?". Working Paper 07-052, 2007, ZEW,
available at: ftp://ftp.zew.de/pub/zew-docs/dp/dp07052.pdf
[44] K. Staropoli, "Cooperation in R&D through a network, an
organizational gamble? An empirical analysis of Rh├┤ne Poulenc Rorer-
Gencell". Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, vol.10,
no.4, p.511-527, 1998.
[45] M.V. Tatikonda and M.M. Montoya-Weiss, "Integrating operations and
marketing perspectives of product innovation: the influence of
organizational process factors and capabilities on development
performance". Management Science, vol.47, no.1, p.151-172, 2001.
[46] D.J. Teece, "Technological change and the nature of the firm". In
Technical Change and Economic Theory. Ed. G. Dosi, C. Freeman, R.
Nelson, G. Silverberg and L. Soete. 1988. New York: Pinter Publishers.
[47] B. Wernerfelt, "A resource-based view of the firm". Strategic
Management Journal, vol.5, no.2, p.171-180, 1984.
[48] J.M. Wooldridge, "Simple solutions to the initial conditions problem in
dynamic nonlinear panel data models with unobserved heterogeneity".
Journal of Applied Econometrics, vol.20, no.1, p.39-54, 2005.
[1] C. Antonelli, F. Crespi and G. Scellato, "Inside innovation persistence:
New evidence from Italian micro-data". Structural Change and
Economic Dynamics, 2012, forthcoming.
[2] H. Armbruster, A. Bikfalvib, S. Kinkela and G. Lay, "Organizational
innovation: The challenge of measuring non-technical innovation in
large-scale surveys". Technovation, vol. 28, p. 644-657, 2008
[3] J.V. Baldridge and R.A. Burnham, "Organizational Innovation:
Individual, Organizational, and Environmental Impacts", Administrative
Science Quarterly, vol.20, p. 165-176, 1975
[4] G. Battisti and P. Stoneman, "How innovative are UK firms? Evidence
from the CIS4 on synergies between technological and organizational
innovations", British Journal of Management, vol. 34, no.1, p. 187-206,
2010
[5] S. Bharadwaj and A. Menon, "Making innovation happen in
organizations: Individual creativity mechanisms, organizational
creativity mechanisms or both", Journal of Product Innovation
Management, vol. 17, no.6, p.424-434, 2000
[6] M.D. Cohen and D.A. Levinthal, "Absorptive capacity: A new
perspective on learning innovation", Administrative Science Quarterly
vol.35, no.1, p.128-152, 1990.
[7] W.M. Cohen, Empirical Studies of Innovative Activity. Chapter 6 of
Handbook of the Economics of Innovation and Technological Change.
Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.
[8] A. Colombelli, N. Haned and C. Le Bas, "On firm growth and
innovation. Some new empirical perspectives using French CIS (1992-
2004)", ICER working paper, 2010.
[9] C. Cordelier, "Innovations et performances des sociétés des services et
de l'industrie manufacturière, comparaisons", Working paper E
2009/06, INSEE, France. 2009.
[10] M. Crossan and M. Apaydin, "A multi-dimensional framework of
organizational innovation". Journal of Management Studies, vol.47,
no.6, p.1154-1191, 2010.
[11] R.L. Daft, "A dual-core model of organizational innovation". Academy
of Management Review, vol.21, p.193-210, 1978.
[12] F. Damanpour, "Organizational innovation: a meta-analysis of effects of
determinants and moderators". Academy of Management Journal,
vol.34, no.3, p.550-90, 1991.
[13] F. Damanpour, "Organizational size and innovation". Organization
Studies, vol.13, no.3, p.375-402, 1992.
[14] F. Damanpour and D. Aravind, Product and process innovations: a
review of organizational and environmental determinants. In Innovation,
Science, and Institutional Change, Ed. J. Hage and M. Meeus. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2006.
[15] F. Damanpour and W.M. Evan, "Organizational innovation and
performance: the problem of organizational lag". Administrative Science
Quarterly, vol.29, p.392-402, 1984.
[16] D. Dougherty, "A practice-centered model of organizational renewal
through product innovation". Strategic Management Journal, vol.23, p.
77-92, 1992.
[17] E. Duguet and S. Monjon, « Les fondements microéconomiques de la
persistance de l'innovation: Une analyse économétrique ». Revue
Économique, vol.53, no.3, p.625-636, 2002.
[18] R. Evangelista, R. and A.Vezzani, "The economic impact of
technological and organizational innovations. A firm-level analysis".
Research Policy, vol.39, p.1253-1263, 2010.
[19] P.A. Geroski, J. van Reenen and C.F. Walters, "How persistently do
firms innovate?". Research Policy, vol.26, no.1, p.33-48, 1997.
[20] N. Greenan, D. Guellec, G. Broussaudier and L. Miotti, "Innovation
organisationnelle, dynamisme technologique et performance des
entreprises ». Working paper G9304/ April, INSEE, France, 1993.
[21] L. Gumusluo─ƒlu and A. Ilsev, "Transformational leadership and
organizational innovation: the roles of internal and external support for
innovation". Journal of Product Innovation Management, vol.26,
p.264-277, 2009.
[22] G. Gunday, G. Ulusoy, K. Kilic and L. Alpkan, "Effects of innovation
types on firm performance". International Journal of Production
Economics, vol.133, no.2, p.662-676, 2011.
[23] J.J. Heckman, "The incidental parameters problem and the problem of
initial conditions in estimating a discrete time discrete data stochastic
process". In The structural analysis of discrete. Ed. C. Manski and D.
McFadden. Boston: MIT Press, 1981.
[24] R. Henderson, R. and K. Clark, "Architectural innovation: the
reconfiguration of existing product technologies and the failure of
established firms". Administrative Science Quarterly, vol.35, p.9-30,
1990.
[25] J.R. Kimberly and M.J. Evanisko, "Organizational Innovation: the
influence of individual, organizational, and contextual factors on
hospital adoption of technological and administrative innovations".
Academy of Management Journal, vol.24, no.4, p.689-713, 1981.
[26] A. Lam, "Organizational innovation". In The Oxford Handbook of
Innovation, ed. Jan Fagerberg J., Mowery D.C., Nelson R.R. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2005.
[27] W. Latham and C. Le Bas, The Economics of Persistent Innovation,
Berlin and New York: Springer, 2006.
[28] C. Le Bas and N. Poussing, « Are complex innovators more persistent
than single innovators? An empirical analysis of innovation persistence
drivers". Working Paper 1201, GATE, Lyon Saint-Etienne, France,
2012.
[29] B. Lokshin, A. Van Gils and E. Bauer, ÔÇ×Crafting firm competencies to
improve innovative performance". Working Paper, UNU-MERIT,
available at:
http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2008/wp2008-009.pdf
(accessed 12 November 2011), 2008a.
[30] B. Lokshin, R. Belderbos and M. Carree, "The productivity effects of
internal and external R&D: evidence from a dynamic panel data model".
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, vol.70, no.3, p.399-413,
2008b.
[31] J.H. Love and S. Roper, "Location and network effects on innovation
success: evidence for UK, German and Irish manufacturing plants".
Research Policy, vol.30,no.4, p.643-661, 2001.
[32] J. Mairesse and P. Mohnen, "Using innovations surveys for econometric
analysis". NBER working paper series 15857.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w15857, 2010.
[33] C. Mothe and T.U. Nguyen-Thi, "The link between non technological
innovations and technological innovation". European Journal of
Innovation Management, vol.13, no.3, p.313-332, 2010.
[34] C. Mothe C. and T.U. Nguyen-Thi, "Non-technological and
technological innovations: Do services differ from manufacturing? An
empirical analysis of Luxembourg firms", International Journal of
Technology Management, forthcoming.
[35] R.R. Nelson and S.G. Winter, An Evolutionary Theory of Economic
Change. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press: Cambridge,
1982.
[36] OECD. 2005. Oslo Manual. 3rd edition
[37] K. Pavitt, "Innovation Processes". In Jan Fagerberg J., . Mowery D.C.,
Nelson R.R., Eds, The Oxford Handbook of Innovation. Oxford
Handbooks in Business and Management. p.86-114, 2005.
[38] E.T. Penrose, The Theory of the Growth of the Firm. New York: John
Wiley, 1959.
[39] B. Peters, "Persistence Effects of Innovation Activities. In Peters, B, Ed,
Innovation and firm performance". Physica Verlag, Zew Economic
Studies 38, p. 151-199, 2008.
[40] R. Phillips, "Innovation and firm performance in Australian
manufacturing, industry commission", Staff Research Paper, Canberra,
1997.
[41] M. Polder M, G.V. Leeuwen, P. Mohnen and W. Raymond, "Product,
process and organizational innovation: drivers, complementarity and
productivity effects", United Nations University - Maastricht Economic
and social Research and training centre on Innovation and Technology,
Maastricht, The Netherlands, 2010.
[42] W. Raymond, P. Mohnen, F.C. Palm and S. Schim Van Der Loeff,
"Persistence of innovation in Dutch manufacturing: Is it spurious?"
Review of Economics and Statistics, vol.92,no.3, p.495-504, 2010.
[43] T. Schmidt and C. Rammer, "Non-technological and technological
innovation: strange bedfellows?". Working Paper 07-052, 2007, ZEW,
available at: ftp://ftp.zew.de/pub/zew-docs/dp/dp07052.pdf
[44] K. Staropoli, "Cooperation in R&D through a network, an
organizational gamble? An empirical analysis of Rh├┤ne Poulenc Rorer-
Gencell". Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, vol.10,
no.4, p.511-527, 1998.
[45] M.V. Tatikonda and M.M. Montoya-Weiss, "Integrating operations and
marketing perspectives of product innovation: the influence of
organizational process factors and capabilities on development
performance". Management Science, vol.47, no.1, p.151-172, 2001.
[46] D.J. Teece, "Technological change and the nature of the firm". In
Technical Change and Economic Theory. Ed. G. Dosi, C. Freeman, R.
Nelson, G. Silverberg and L. Soete. 1988. New York: Pinter Publishers.
[47] B. Wernerfelt, "A resource-based view of the firm". Strategic
Management Journal, vol.5, no.2, p.171-180, 1984.
[48] J.M. Wooldridge, "Simple solutions to the initial conditions problem in
dynamic nonlinear panel data models with unobserved heterogeneity".
Journal of Applied Econometrics, vol.20, no.1, p.39-54, 2005.
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innovation, but does it also influence technological innovation
persistence? This article investigates empirically the pattern of
technological innovation persistence and tests the potential impact of
organizational innovation using firm-level data from three waves of
the French Community Innovation Surveys. Evidence shows a
positive effect of organizational innovation on technological
innovation persistence, according to various measures of
organizational innovation. Moreover, this impact is more significant
for complex innovators (i.e., those who innovate in both products and
processes). These results highlight the complexity of managing
organizational practices with regard to the firm-s technological
innovation. They also add to comprehension of the drivers of
innovation persistence, through a focus on an often forgotten
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