Success factors of innovation in resource-scarce environments

资源稀缺环境下创新的成功因素

• 批准号: 238362631
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Martin Högl
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institute for Leadership and Organization
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2012-12-31 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/238362631?language=en
• 关键词: Success; factors; innovation; resource; scarce

Innovation for resource constrained contexts at the base of the economic pyramid (BoP) in newly industrializing and developing countries has been frequently subject of case studies and anecdotal reports. What is missing in the literature, however, is a theoretical foundation and a systematic empirical analysis of how firms can successfully innovate in these countries and which capabilities firms need to do so.Hence, there are no generalizable recommendations as to how firms can successfully conduct innovation projects in the BoP context. Therefore, this study aims at answering the following central research questions: (1) What are the specific antecedents of innovation project success in the BoP context? (2) How does an organizational capability of resource-constrained innovation evolve from the capabilities developed in such innovation projects? (3) Which can firms from industrialized countries learn with regard to innovations for their traditional markets?The Resource Based View of the firm (RBV) is used as the theoretical foundation to examine these research questions in a two-stage empirical design. After conducting an in-depth qualitative study to develop hypotheses on the antecedents of innovation success in the BoP context, these hypotheses are tested using a quantitative multi-level study that integrates the organizational and project level of enquiry in order to capture influences on innovation success from both of these levels and their interdependencies. Here, we especially focus on how the capabilities that successful innovation project teams develop when working with scarce material resources can be used for developing an organizational capability of material resource-constrained innovation. This analysis thus explicitly considers micro foundations of organizational capabilities and the underlying basic assumptions of the RBV. This research project offers a several contributions. From an innovation management perspective, it aims at providing insights on the key factors for material resource constrained innovation. From an international management perspective, the study aims to identify antecedents of successful new product development for and in countries that are characterized by scarce material resources of customers as well as the whole business environment. Moreover, the literature on the RBV will be advanced by identifying and examining micro-foundations of the RBV. Beyond these theoretical contributions this research project will also offer practical implications. Managers will be provided with recommendations not only how they can increase the success of new product development in and for BoP markets, but also how firms generally can design a more efficient innovation process and develop resource-parsimonious products.

在新兴工业化国家和发展中国家，在经济金字塔底部资源有限的情况下进行创新经常成为案例研究和轶事报告的主题。然而，在文献中缺少的是一个理论基础和一个系统的实证分析，企业如何能够成功地在这些国家创新，企业需要这样做的能力，因此，有没有概括性的建议，企业如何能够成功地进行创新项目的国际收支平衡的背景下。因此，本研究旨在回答以下核心研究问题：（1）在国际收支平衡的背景下，创新项目成功的具体前因是什么？(2)资源约束型创新的组织能力是如何从这些创新项目中发展出来的？(3)工业化国家的公司在为其传统市场进行创新方面可以学到什么？本文以企业资源基础观（RBV）为理论基础，通过两阶段的实证设计，对这些研究问题进行了检验。在进行了深入的定性研究，以发展假设的前提下，创新成功的国际收支平衡的背景下，这些假设进行了测试，使用定量的多层次研究，整合了组织和项目层面的查询，以捕捉创新成功的影响，从这两个层面和它们的相互依存关系。在这里，我们特别关注的能力，成功的创新项目团队开发时，稀缺的物质资源可以用于开发物质资源约束创新的组织能力。因此，这种分析明确考虑了组织能力的微观基础和RBV的基本假设。这个研究项目提供了一些贡献。从创新管理的角度来看，它旨在提供洞察的关键因素的物质资源约束的创新。从国际管理的角度来看，这项研究的目的是确定成功的新产品开发的先决条件，并在国家的特点是稀缺的物质资源的客户以及整个商业环境。此外，文献上的RBV将通过识别和检查RBV的微观基础。除了这些理论贡献，本研究项目也将提供实际意义。管理人员将得到建议，不仅他们可以如何增加新产品开发的成功，并为国际收支平衡市场，但也如何企业一般可以设计一个更有效的创新过程和开发资源节约的产品。