The Organizational Innovativeness of Public Listed Housing Developers in Malaysia

This paper investigated the organizational innovativeness of public listed housing developers in Malaysia. We conceptualized organizational innovativeness as a multi-dimensional construct consisting of 5 dimensions: market innovativeness, product innovativeness, process innovativeness, behavior...

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Auteurs principaux: Yusof, Nor’Aini, Abu-Jarad, Ismael Younis
Format: Article
Langue:English
Publié: World Academy of Science Engineering and Technology 2011
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Accès en ligne:http://eprints.usm.my/43122/1/v77-8-AINI-USM.pdf
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Résumé:This paper investigated the organizational innovativeness of public listed housing developers in Malaysia. We conceptualized organizational innovativeness as a multi-dimensional construct consisting of 5 dimensions: market innovativeness, product innovativeness, process innovativeness, behavior innovativeness and strategic innovativeness. We carried out questionnaire survey with all accessible public listed developers in Malaysia and received a 56 percent response. We found that the innovativeness of public listed housing developers is low. The paper ends by providing some explanations for the results.