What impacts more on innovation : Organizational context or individual competences ?

The present article examines the link between a firm’s organizational context and its capacity to be ambidextrous in terms of innovation. Although the management practices underlying context have a profound effect on innovation, their impact has not previously been investigated. Nor has research looked empirically at the individual competences that should be developed in order to favour specific types of innovation. Using a dataset of 174 firms, the present study shows that firms pursuing exploration and exploitation strategies in terms of innovation should adopt long-term oriented practices that favor risk taking and creativity, thus creating an appropriate organizational context. Competence management was found to have a strong moderating effect on the link between organizational context and innovation ambidexterity. Implications include the need to look at how management may increase innovation ambidexterity, and to chose appropriate combinations of competences and organizational context

Mean Diffusion Scores of Articles Appearing in Disciplinary Journals Compared to those in <i>Nature/Science</i>, by Field.

<p>Cell Bio = Cell Biology, P Chem = Physical Chemistry, Cog Sci = Cognitive Science, Disc Jrnl = Disciplinary journal, Sci/Nat = <i>Science</i> and <i>Nature</i>.</p

Top Five Journals Cited by or Citing Target Articles, by Field and Journal Type.

<p>Top Five Journals Cited by or Citing Target Articles, by Field and Journal Type.</p

Mean Integration Scores of Articles Appearing in Disciplinary Journals Compared to those in <i>Nature/Science</i>, by Field.

<p>Cell Bio = Cell Biology, P Chem = Physical Chemistry, Cog Sci = Cognitive Science, Disc Jrnl = Disciplinary journal, Sci/Nat = <i>Science</i> and <i>Nature</i>.</p

Mean number of total citations per article and mean number of citations per article appearing in journals that are out-of-field, by field.

<p>Mean number of total citations per article and mean number of citations per article appearing in journals that are out-of-field, by field.</p

Research Areas and Main Research Fields of CISE in NSF.

Research Areas and Main Research Fields of CISE in NSF.</p

Semantic Network of 30 Most Frequently Occurring Terms in NSF Big Data Proposals.

Semantic Network of 30 Most Frequently Occurring Terms in NSF Big Data Proposals.</p

Summary of Program Distribution of Big Data Projects in NSF.

<p>Summary of Program Distribution of Big Data Projects in NSF.</p

Semantic Network of 30 Most Frequently Occurring Terms in NSFC Big Data Proposals.

<p>Semantic Network of 30 Most Frequently Occurring Terms in NSFC Big Data Proposals.</p

Top 10 WCs for Big Data Publications Supported by NSF and NSF.

<p>Top 10 WCs for Big Data Publications Supported by NSF and NSF.</p