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Management Innovation And Firm Performance: An Integration Of Research Findings, Richard M. Walker, Jiyao Chen, Deepa Aravind
Management Innovation And Firm Performance: An Integration Of Research Findings, Richard M. Walker, Jiyao Chen, Deepa Aravind
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While the effect of technological innovations (TI) on firm performance is established, performance contributions of management innovations (MI) is as yet undetermined. Theoretical discourse on the motivation for the adoption of MIs questions their performance outcome, and an integration of empirical research of the MI-performance relationship is lacking. This study thus examines three questions: (1) is the adoption of MI beneficial to organizations; (2) is the impact of MI on performance at par with that of TI; and (3) what are the potential sources of inconsistency in the MI-performance relationship? We quantitatively integrate the empirical findings using 52 independent samples …