Conceptualizing organizational innovation: The case of the Brazilian software industry
Authors: de Souza Bermejo, Paulo Henrique; Tonelli, Adriano Olímpio; Galliers, Robert D.; Oliveira, Tiago; Zambalde, André Luiz
Journal: Information & Management (2016)
This paper presents and tests a conceptual model that explains innovation practices and innovation outcomes in Brazilian software firms. By considering internal and external innovation capabilities, the ability to manage the relationship between people and their organizational contexts plays an important role for organizational innovation. Based on these results, we propose that the disparities between software firms in building organizational innovation can be attributed, in part, to differences in their internal capabilities. The paper aims at encouraging and supporting managers to develop internal capabilities as a way of effectively leveraging the internally and externally distributed knowledge essential to innovation development.