Organizational innovation and it's impact on the performance in industrial firms

العناوين الأخرى

الابتكار التنظيمي و أثره على أداء الشركات الصناعية

مقدم أطروحة جامعية

Ashur, Safa Muhammad

مشرف أطروحة جامعية

al-Umari, Ghassan Isa

أعضاء اللجنة

Salih, Ahmad Ali

الجامعة

جامعة عمان العربية

الكلية

كلية الأعمال

القسم الأكاديمي

قسم الإدارة و إدارة الأعمال

دولة الجامعة

الأردن

الدرجة العلمية

ماجستير

تاريخ الدرجة العلمية

2013

الملخص الإنجليزي

The innovation is widely used as one of the most important resources of competitive advantage in the changing environment.

It leads to products and process improvements which help companies to survive, grow and continue, and be more efficient and profitable.

The purpose of the study is to investigate the impact of organizational innovation on firms’ performance.

The organizational innovation has been measured by technological, marketing, and administrative innovation.Thestudy model was developed,and nine hypotheses were proposed .The data of this study have been collected through 55 firms operating in Jordanian industrial sectors listed in Amman Stock Exchange.

Two hundred twenty five (225) questionnaires have been distributed to the study sample.The target respondents have been divided to top and middle managers.

169 valid responses were returned for the study analysis.

The linear and stepwise regression analysis were used to fulfill the study objectives.

The findings have indicated that there is a moderate level of adoption of organizational innovation within selected firms and there was statistically significant impact of organizational innovation on firm's performance as below: - The “Technological and Marketing innovation” has statistically significant impact on financial performance.

- The “Technological, Marketing and administrative innovation” has statistically significant impact on customer performance.

- The “Technological innovation” has statistically significantant impact on internal process performance.

- The “Technological and administrative innovation” has statistically significant impact on learning and growth performance.

Additionally, the findings have indicated that there are significant differences between means of organizationalinnovation and firms’ performance adopted by industrial firms due to industrial sectors.

Also the findings indicated that there were significant differences between means of organizational innovation adopted by industrial firms due to firm size , while there were no significant differences between means of firm’s performance adopted by industrial firms due to to firm size .

According to the study findings, the following recommendations are presented to help the firms enhance the organizational innovation : - Industrial firms should be more careful about providing enough resources in order to transform new ideas in new products .

- Assigning sufficient budget for research and development.

- Adoption of active promotion method.

- Making a better use of technologies such as the internet and cloud computing services.

- Organic structure should be used with more flexibility.

- Firms should care about increasing employee satisfaction

التخصصات الرئيسية

إدارة الأعمال

الموضوعات

• إدارة الأعمال
• الإدارة الصناعية
• الصناعات
• المنشآت التجارية
• الشركات
• المشاريع

عدد الصفحات

179

قائمة المحتويات

• APA
• MLA
• AMA

لغة النص

الإنجليزية

نوع البيانات

رسائل جامعية

رقم السجل

BIM-529743