An exploratory study to identify critical factors of innovation culture in organizations

Autor: Hamed Asgari, Hamid Bagheri, Alireza Dekho Nazari, Majid Tavassoli, Mohsen Rezaeipour
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Management Science Letters, Vol 3, Iss 7, Pp 1949-1954 (2013)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1923-9335
1923-9343
DOI: 10.5267/j.msl.2013.06.032
Popis: During the past two decades, there has been a growing trend on knowledge-based organizations. Innovation, on the other hand, plays essential role on building competitive business units. In this paper, we present an exploratory study to identify critical factors of innovation culture in organizations. We detect important factors influencing innovation culture in construction industry based on the implementation of factor analysis. The proposed study designs a questionnaire and distributes it among 400 experts who are involved in construction industry. Cronbach alpha has been calculated as 0.779, which validates the overall questionnaire. The results of factor analysis have indicated that six factors of building cultural infrastructures, education, organizational vision, established culture, strategic culture and flexible culture are the most important items influencing innovation culture.
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