دانلود رایگان مقاله ارتقا قابلیت های جدید توسعه محصول شرکت های کوچک و متوسط از طریق نوآوری های مدیریتی

Abstract

This essay aims at finding empirical evidence on which types of managerial innovations actually promote new product development (NPD) capabilities of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We built this study upon empirical data derived from 650 German SMEs that took part in the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) 2011. We applied principal component analysis (PCA) to detect three different NPD capability factors. Our findings indicate positive effects of the following two types of managerial innovations: innovations in organisational procedures and in organisational forms. The results imply that the best bet for SMEs aiming at improving capabilities that are important for the first phases of NPD are changes in their organisational procedures. On the other hand, firms gearing toward advances in the final phases of NPD should concentrate internal changes on their general work organisation. Our paper demonstrates that SMEs can actively reinforce their NPD capabilities by implementing the right changes in their organisations.

4. Results and discussion

As the descriptive statistics in Table 4 show, managerial innovations have been realised by a minority of SMEs. This finding is consistent with those of Garengo and Bernardi (2007), who ascertained that SMEs focus their efforts on operational and technological activities rather than on organisational or managerial problems. As stated by Teece (1980) and Boer and During (2001), managerial innovations are resource intensive. Our observation is thus likely to be related to high efforts for SMEs. The introduction of innovations in organisational procedures was with 35.8% the most common managerial innovations in our sample. Although the descriptive statistics suggest that SMEs do not seem to consider managerial innovations as important contributors to their NPD activities, the results reveal that all SMEs introducing any type of managerial innovation scored on average higher on each of the three NPD capability factors.