The relationship between top management team innovation orientation and firm growth: The mediating role of firm innovativeness

Kraiczy, Nils Daniel; Hack, Andreas; Kellermanns, Franz W. (2015). The relationship between top management team innovation orientation and firm growth: The mediating role of firm innovativeness. International Journal of Innovation Management, 19(1), pp. 1-24. Imperial College Press 10.1142/S136391961550005X

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Upper echelon theory and research on innovation have considered top management teams and their behaviour and characteristics as important factors that positively influence innovativeness and organizational outcomes. Yet, innovation research has mostly focused on individual new product projects, and their performance and impact on firm performance. Recent research has started to apply a more holistic view in terms of innovation, by considering firm-wide innovation instead of single new products. Upper echelon research has concentrated on direct relationships between top management team characteristics and organizational outcomes. But recent research calls for mediating effects of the relationship between top management team characteristics and organizational outcomes. Hence, this study introduces firm innovativeness as a mediator between top management team innovation orientation and firm growth. Focusing on small and medium-sized firms, which often represent highly innovative firms, results show that firm innovativeness fully mediates the relationship between top management team innovation orientation and firm growth. Implications and future research are discussed.

Item Type:	Journal Article (Original Article)
Division/Institute:	03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Department of Business Management > Institute of Organization and Human Resource Management > Human Resource Management
UniBE Contributor:	Kraiczy, Nils Daniel, Hack, Andreas
Subjects:	600 Technology > 650 Management & public relations
ISSN:	1363-9196
Publisher:	Imperial College Press
Language:	English
Submitter:	Nils Daniel Kraiczy
Date Deposited:	26 May 2015 09:00
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 14:47
Publisher DOI:	10.1142/S136391961550005X
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/68819