Towards Formalizing and Formulating the Successful Organizational Innovation Process

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Milhim, Hamzeh Bani | Schiffauerova, Andrea

Affiliations: Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada | Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Note: [] Corresponding author. Email: andrea@ciise.concordia.ca Tel: (+1)514-8482424 ext. 3307.

Abstract: It has been rarely attempted to capture the holistic characteristics of successful organizational innovation in one model. The main objective of this paper is to develop a generic formal model which depicts the successful organizational innovation process. The developed model covers two aspects of innovation: the innovation process and the organizational innovative behavior. The innovation process is discussed in terms of its stages while the organizational innovativeness is analyzed through arranging the organizational factors which have positive contribution to innovation into categories. Furthermore, the organizational innovation process has been analyzed from the design point view. The Axiomatic Theory of Design Modeling (ATDM) has been used to formulate mathematically a conceptual design of the organizational innovation process. Finally, a survey study has been conducted in order to further examine the success factors of innovation and to validate the proposed conceptual model. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) has been used to evaluate our findings. The results confirm the positive contribution of the proposed success factors to the innovation process. Future research directions based on the developed conceptual design of the organizational innovation system have been suggested.

Keywords: Organizational innovation, innovation model, organizational behavior, Axiomatic Theory of Design Modeling, Confirmatory Factor Analysis

DOI: 10.3233/jid-2013-0001

Journal: Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 5-21, 2013