Improvisation for innovation: The contingent role of resource and structural factors in explaining innovation capability

2018

The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link. This paper focuses on resource and structural factors to explore the relationship between organizational improvisation and innovation capability. Although the role of improvisation has attracted increasing academic attention in fast-changing environments, little is known about the conditions under which firms benefit from improvisation. This paper addresses this gap using an organizational learning perspective that explains the role of a firm's organizational structure and organizational resources for improvisation and innovation. A large-scale …