Relationship between Innovation Management and Innovative Organizational Culture

Year 2021, Volume: 50 Issue: 1, 103 - 126, 16.06.2021

Bekir Çağlar Bayhan Oya Korkmaz

Abstract

Innovation management is essential for the growth and success of an organization. Innovation management is a precursor to the establishment of an innovative organizational culture. By encouraging staff to engage in innovative behavior, innovation management facilitates the creation and establishment of a culture of innovation in an organization. An organization can only change its cultural attitude and behavior by investing in innovation management practices—i.e., by applying innovation to the organization’s strategies, systems, and procedures. To effectively establish an innovative culture, organizations should continuously implement innovation management practices. Only in this way can innovation become an organization’s dominant culture. Because innovation management practices increase the commitment to innovation, they facilitate the formation and development of an innovative organizational culture and eventually become the fundamental values of the organization. In this study, we posited that innovation management constitutes the basis for the formation of an innovative organizational culture and analyzed this hypothesized relationship. For this purpose, we collected data using the face-to-face survey method with 200 white-collar staff members working in logistics companies that operate in Mersin, Turkey and that apply innovative management practices. We assessed the collected data using SPSS 20.0 (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) and AMOS 24.0 (Analysis of Moment Structures) programs. Our analysis showed a highly significant positive relationship between innovation management and innovative organizational culture.

Keywords

Innovation Management, Innovative Organizational Culture, Logistics

Supporting Institution

The authors declared that this study has received no financial support.

References

• Asmawi, A., & Mohan, A. V. (2011). Unveiling dimensions of organizational culture: An exploratory study in Malaysian R&D organizations. R&D Management, 41(5), 509-523.
• Bagno, R. B., Salerno, M. S., & Silva, D. O. (2017). Models with graphical representation for innovation management: A literature review. R&D Management, 47(4), 637-653.
• Bayhan, B. Ç., & Korkmaz, O. (2018). Lojistik işletmelerinde yenilik yönetimi ile yenilikçi örgüt kültürü ilişkisi (Master’s thesis, Mersin University, Turkey). Retrieved from https://tez.yok.gov.tr/UlusalTezMerkezi/tezSorguSonucYeni.jsp
• Ceausu, I., Murswieck, R., Kurth, L. B., & Ionescu, R. (2017). The organizational culture as a support of innovation processes. International Journal of Advanced Engineering and Management Research, 2(6), 2392-2403.
• Chong, X., & Chun-sheng, S. (2007, August). The impact of culture- oriented organizational innovation on technological innovation. Jiuping Xu (Chair), 2007 international conference on management science & engineering. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
• Davies, M., & Buisine, S. (2018). Science, technology and innovation culture. Marianne Chouteau, Joëlle Forest & Céline Nguyen (Eds.), Innovation culture in organizations (pp. 101-112). London, UK: Wiley Online Library.
• Dombrowski, C., Kim, Y. J., Desouza, C. K, Braganza, A., Papagari, S., Baloh, P., & Jha, S. (2007). Elements of innovative cultures, Knowledge and Process Management, 14(3), 190-202. https://doi.org/10.1002/kpm.279
• Eren, H., & Kılıç, A. (2013). Innovative environment in organizations: Especially the situation in defense industry as a sector. Atatürk University Economics and Administrative Sciences Journal, 27(3), 221-244.
• Etges, A. P. B. S., & Cortimiglia, M. N. (2019). A systematic review of risk management in innovation-oriented firms. Journal of Risk Research, 22(3), 364-381. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2017.1382558
• George, D., and Mallery, P. (2003). SPSS for windows step by step: A simple guide and reference. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
• Gürsel, Ü., & Sü Eröz, S. (2017). Relationship of organizational dependency and innovative management: A research on kitchen personnel (Master’s thesis, Mersin University, Turkey). Retrieved from https://tez.yok.gov.tr/UlusalTezMerkezi/tezSorgu SonucYeni.jsp
• Haleem, A., Kumar, S., & Luthra, S. (2018). Flexible system approach for understanding requisites of product innovation management. Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, 19(1), 19-37.
• Hirte, R., & Roth, P. (2018). Advanced innovation management: Best practice of German and American corporations in the mobility sector. Journal of Strategic Innovation and Sustainability, 13(5), 111-126. https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481904
• Hörlesberger, M., El-Nawawi, M., & Khalil, T. (2007). Challenges in the management of new Technologies. Miami, FL: World Scientific
• Işık, C., & Aydın, E. (2016). Effect of information sharing on innovative work behaviors: An application on accommodation enterprises in the plateau of Ayder. Entrepreneurship and innovation management journal, 5(2), 75-103.
• Kalivas, Y., Gkofa, F., Rakovitis, C., Tonkov, A., Petrov, V., & Borut, L. (2013). Innovation management. Borut Likar (Eds.), Basic on innovation (pp. 13-25). Ljubljana, Slovenia: Korona plus d.o.o., Institute for Innovation and Technology.
• Kaplan, Soren (2017). The invisible advantage: How to create a culture of innovation. Austin, TX: Greenleaf Book Group.
• Maher, L. (2014). Building a culture for innovation: A leadership challenge. World Hospitals and Health Services, 50(1): 4-6.
• Martins, E. C., & Terblanche, F. (2003). Building organisational culture that stimulates creativity and innovation. European Journal of Innovation Management, 6(1), 64-74. https://doi.org/10.1108/14601060310456337
• MIP (2018). Mersin international port panorama. Retrieved from https://www.mersinport.com.tr/images/pdf/MIP_Panorama_2018_4Q.pdf
• Morente, F., & Ferràs, X. (2017). Innovation management from the inside: An approach from attention and everyday praxis. Intangible Capital, 13(3), 640-667. https://doi.org/10.3926/ic.1004
• Owoyemi, O. O., & Ekwoaba, J. O. (2014). Organisational culture: A tool for management to control, motivate and enhance employees’ performance. American Journal of Business and Management, 3(3), 168-177. https://doi.org/10.11634/216796061403514
• Özdaşlı, K. (2010). Establishing innovative organizational structure in enterprises: Proposal of a multi-factor model. TSA, 14(1), 93-110.
• Pelenk, S. E. (2017). Impact of individual innovative behaviors on individual business performance: A research on technology employees. Journal of Emerging Economies and Policy, 2(2), 2-14.
• Plessis, M. J. D., & Pretorius, M. W. (2018, August). Does my organization need an innovation management function? : Towards a model for evaluation. Dundar F. Kocaoglu (Chair), PICMET’18 conference. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology, Hawaii, USA.
• Schermelleh-Engel, K., Moosbrugger, H., & Müller, H. (2003). Evaluating the fit of structural equation models: Tests of significance and descriptive goodness-of-fit measures. Methods of Psychological Research Online, 8(2), 23-74.
• Szczepańska-Woszczyna, K. (2014). The importance of organizational culture for innovation in the company. Forum Scientiae Oeconomia, 2(3), 27-39.
• Şahin, Ö., & Özdoğan, O. N. (2015, May). Relationship between skills management and innovative performance: The Bodrum example. Hakkı Gökbel, Muammer Erol (Chair), I. Eurasia international tourism congress: Current issues, trends and indicators (EITOC) / I. Eurasia international tourism congress: Current issues, trends and indicators (EITOC). Symposium conducted at the meeting of the Selçuk Üniversitesi Turizm Fakültesi, Konya, Turkey
• Taghizadeh, S. K., Jayaraman, K., Rahman, S. A., & Quazi, A. (2017). Service innovation management practices and pricing practices for performance in Malaysian telecom. Asian Academy of Management Journal, 22(2), 129-155. https://doi.org/10.21315/aamj2017.22.2.5
• Ülgen, H., & Mirze, S. K. (2014). İşletmelerde stratejik yönetim. İstanbul, Turkey: Beta Basım Yayım Dağıtım A.Ş.
• Wallach, E. J. (1983). Individuals and organizations: The cultural match. Training and Development Journal, 37(2), 28-36.
• Yi, W., & Xiangyun, X. (2013). Obstacles to innovation management in SMEs: A case study of Libo Airport (Master’s thesis, University of Gavle, Sweden). Retrieved from https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:619947/FULLTEXT01.pdf