6. Discussion
As explained earlier, there are several prior studies that document different factors impacting on an organisation's radical and incremental innovation performance. However, these studies focus on the influence of individual factors on different types of innovation performance. They implicitly imply, therefore, that organisations should seek to perform well in all the areas to be able to achieve the anticipated outcome. However, such a performance in all the areas is unlikely for enterprises, specifically for SMEs, due to their limited resources. The fsQCA enables researchers to understand which factors are relevant to achieving the desired outcome and what combinations of these factors will lead to that outcome (Fiss, 2011). Ganter and Hecker (2014) argue that fsQCA is particularly suitable for configurational analysis of organisational innovation. Organisations are generally only able to focus their expertise and resources on some of these factors and therefore it is important to understand what combination of these characteristics can assist them to achieve their goals. This study looks at different configurations of these factors and identifies the different paths that can lead to higher radical or incremental innovation performance. In addition to that, this research is one of the few studies that applies the fsQCA method to network characteristics.
