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Development of a Research Model and Research Propositions on Organizational Innovation

Choi, Mangi · Lee, Jiu

Published: January 1998 · Vol. 27 No. 5 · pp. 1331-1360
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As we approach the threshold of the 21st century, the acceleration of informatization and globalization is driving the world deeper into an era of borderless, unlimited competition. For firms to survive and achieve sustained growth and development in such an era, they must internalize organizational innovation as a fundamental organizational characteristic. Organizational innovation is one of the most popular topics in the field of organization studies, and numerous scholars and managers have devoted sustained attention and repeated research efforts to the subject. However, the research to date has not been sufficiently cumulative, and one of the primary reasons is the absence of a comprehensive and systematic integrative model for research. Accordingly, this study extensively and meticulously analyzed the existing research on organizational innovation to present the design rationale for the integrative model of organizational innovation proposed by Choi Man-Ki and Lee Ji-Woo (1977) and to identify its relative strengths compared to existing research models. Furthermore, among the components of this model, the study focused on the quantity, quality, and speed of organizational innovation—dimensions that have been neglected thus far—and established key research propositions that can expand the horizons of organizational innovation research and promote qualitative improvement. Additionally, representative hypotheses that can be derived from each proposition were illustrated for the purpose of future empirical research.