Innovation capability: An exploration into its role in determining firm performance
The recognition of innovation capability as a key success factor in determining performance has gained widespread attention from academicians and practitioners.They studied innovation capability in a variety of contexts including in relation to the business development, technology, policy design and...
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author | Noordin, Muhammad Arafat Mohtar, Shahimi Ahmad, Fakhrorazi |
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description | The recognition of innovation capability as a key success factor in determining performance has gained widespread attention from academicians and practitioners.They studied innovation capability in a variety of contexts including in relation to the business development, technology, policy design and social systems.Innovation capability is the ability of a firm to transform an idea into a something new which carries an economic value.The economic value would then increase profit and consequently firm performance.However, prior empirical study on innovation capability does not provide conclusive evidence regarding the relationship between innovation capability and firm performance.This paper tends to explore the conflicting results that link
between the two variables.The unit of analysis for the study is Small and Medium Enterprises operating in Malaysia. |
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spelling | uum-118522016-04-18T04:09:02Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/11852/ Innovation capability: An exploration into its role in determining firm performance Noordin, Muhammad Arafat Mohtar, Shahimi Ahmad, Fakhrorazi HB Economic Theory The recognition of innovation capability as a key success factor in determining performance has gained widespread attention from academicians and practitioners.They studied innovation capability in a variety of contexts including in relation to the business development, technology, policy design and social systems.Innovation capability is the ability of a firm to transform an idea into a something new which carries an economic value.The economic value would then increase profit and consequently firm performance.However, prior empirical study on innovation capability does not provide conclusive evidence regarding the relationship between innovation capability and firm performance.This paper tends to explore the conflicting results that link between the two variables.The unit of analysis for the study is Small and Medium Enterprises operating in Malaysia. IJRSS 2014-05 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/11852/1/3.pdf Noordin, Muhammad Arafat and Mohtar, Shahimi and Ahmad, Fakhrorazi (2014) Innovation capability: An exploration into its role in determining firm performance. International Journal of Research in Social Sciences, 4 (2). pp. 551-559. ISSN 2249-2496 http://www.ijmra.us/ |
spellingShingle | HB Economic Theory Noordin, Muhammad Arafat Mohtar, Shahimi Ahmad, Fakhrorazi Innovation capability: An exploration into its role in determining firm performance |
title | Innovation capability: An exploration into its role in determining firm performance |
title_full | Innovation capability: An exploration into its role in determining firm performance |
title_fullStr | Innovation capability: An exploration into its role in determining firm performance |
title_full_unstemmed | Innovation capability: An exploration into its role in determining firm performance |
title_short | Innovation capability: An exploration into its role in determining firm performance |
title_sort | innovation capability an exploration into its role in determining firm performance |
topic | HB Economic Theory |
url | https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/11852/1/3.pdf |
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