Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Hervas-Oliver, Jose-Luis
Author-Email: jose.hervas@omp.upv.es
Author-Workplace-Name: Universidad Politécnica de Valencia,and Florida State University
Author-Name: Sempere-Ripoll, Francisca
Author-Workplace-Name: Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
Author-Name: Boronat-Moll, Carles
Author-Workplace-Name: Universidad Politécnica de Valencia 
Title: Process innovation objectives and management complementarities: patterns,
 	drivers, co-adoption and performance effects 
Abstract: The excessive concentration of the innovation literature on product
 	development, its drivers and effects, has almost neglected an important
 	strategy which develops and sustains a firm's competitive advantage:
 	process development or innovation. This is an examination of process
 	innovation as more than a mere dependent variable for predicting
 	innovators. It provides insights into the poor attention that process
 	innovation variable has received as an indicator of a firm's
 	performance. In addition, the paper relates this process with the
 	management innovation phenomenon. Using 8,977 firms from Spain through
 	CIS data, findings suggest: (1) most process innovation performance is
 	explained without R&D variables; (2) process innovation process
 	innovation was observed to have a strong dependence on external sources
 	of knowledge, mainly via the acquisition of embodied knowledge; (3) an
 	important "implementation" effect or "learning by trying" effect is
 	observed in which the acquisition of embodied knowledge requires the
 	organization to couple the new technology with existing processes; (4)
 	the simultaneous co-adoption of management innovation positively
 	moderates and improves process performance (5) product innovation is not
 	related to process innovation performance. The latter result is
 	unrelated to consideration of co-adoption of product and process
 	innovation. Two-step Heckman procedures control for the selection
 	process. The paper presents important implications for policymakers and
 	scholars. 
Classification-JEL: Q31, L25
Keywords: process innovation, process innovation performance, management innovation,
	 embodied knowledge acquisition, product innovation
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2012
Number: 2012-051
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2012/wp2012-051.pdf
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File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2012051