Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Lokshin, Boris
Author-Email: lokshin@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT and Maastricht University
Author-Name: Gils, Anita van
Author-Email: A.vanGils@os.unimaas.nl
Author-Workplace-Name: Maastricht University  
Author-Name: Bauer, Eva
Author-Email: eva.bauer@bbdo-consulting.com 
Author-Workplace-Name: BBDO Consulting
Title: Crafting Firm Competencies to Improve Innovative Performance.
Abstract: Recent interdisciplinary research suggests that customer and 
	 technological competencies have a direct, unconditional effect on firms' 
	 innovative performance. This study extends this stream of literature by 
	 considering the effect of organizational competencies. Results from a 
	 survey-research executed in the fast moving consumer goods industry 
	 suggest that firms that craft organizational competencies - such as 
	 improving team cohesiveness and providing slack time to foster 
	 creativity - do not directly improve their innovative performance. 
	 However, those firms that successfully combine customer, technological 
	 and organizational competencies will create more innovations that are 
	 new to the market.
Classification-JEL: O31, O32, L68, M11, M12
Keywords: Innovation, Research and Development, Consumer Goods, Product
	 Innovation, Production Management, Personnel Management, Capability Building
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2008
Number: 009
File-URL: http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2008/wp2008-009.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2008009