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The Influence of Intellectual Capital on the Types of Innovative Capabilities (2005)
| Venue: | Academy of Management Journal |
| Citations: | 108 - 1 self |
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@ARTICLE{Subramaniam05theinfluence,
author = {Mohan Subramaniam and Mark A. Youndt},
title = {The Influence of Intellectual Capital on the Types of Innovative Capabilities},
journal = {Academy of Management Journal},
year = {2005}
}
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Abstract
We examined how aspects of intellectual capital influenced various innovative capa-bilities in organizations. In a longitudinal, multiple-informant study of 93 organiza-tions, we found that human, organizational, and social capital and their interrelation-ships selectively influenced incremental and radical innovative capabilities. As anticipated, organizational capital positively influenced incremental innovative capa-bility, while human capital interacted with social capital to positively influence radical innovative capability. Counter to our expectations, however, human capital by itself was negatively associated with radical innovative capability. Interestingly, social capital played a significant role in both types of innovation, as it positively influenced incremental and radical innovative capabilities. It is widely accepted that an organization’s capa-bility to innovate is closely tied to its intellectual capital, or its ability to utilize its knowledge re-sources. Several studies have underscored how new products embody organizational knowledge (e.g., Stewart, 1997), described innovation as a knowledge management process (e.g., Madhavan & Grover, 1998), and characterized innovative com-panies as knowledge creating (e.g., Nonaka & Takeuchi, 1995). So close are the ties between re-search on knowledge and research on innovation, in fact, that in recent years scholars have seen a blurring of the boundaries between these areas. It is now quite common for studies examining innova-tion to use knowledge or intellectual capital as antecedents, and studies investigating knowledge and intellectual capital frequently use innovation
Keyphrases
intellectual capital radical innovative capability social capital innovative capability human capital multiple-informant study recent year scholar knowledge management process innovative com-panies incremental innovative capa-bility several study nonaka takeuchi new product knowledge re-sources significant role organizational knowledge organizational capital madhavan grover described innovation various innovative capa-bilities
