2024-03-29T09:48:38Zhttps://repositori.uji.es/oai/requestoai:repositori.uji.es:10234/968732020-02-21T08:38:50Zcom_10234_8645com_10234_9col_10234_8646
00925njm 22002777a 4500
dc
Fernández Mesa, Anabel
author
Alegre Vidal, Joaquín
author
Chiva, Ricardo
author
Gutiérrez Gracia, Antonio
author
2013
Purpose – The aim of this paper is to present design management as a dynamic capability and to analyze its mediating role between organizational learning capability and product innovation performance in small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
Design/methodology/approach – Structural equation modeling is used to test the research hypotheses based on data from the Italian and Spanish ceramic tile industries. The data are derived from the responses of 182 companies (50 percent of the target population) to a questionnaire addressed to Product Development Managers and Human Resource Managers.
Findings – The results suggest that organizational learning capability enhances product innovation through the mediation of design management capability. The authors find an interesting interplay between organizational learning, design management capability and product innovation that can be very useful to better understand how to improve innovation performance. This finding shows that design management, as a dynamic capability, emerges from learning and allows the firm to adapt to environmental changes.
Originality/value – Several works have studied dynamic capabilities but without specifying the nature of these capabilities. More recent empirically-based studies conceptualize and refer to specific dynamic capabilities. In this paper, the authors present design management as a dynamic capability. This study aims also to develop a better understanding of how organizational learning capability impacts on the product innovation performance of SMEs and how this relationship is mediated by design management capability.
FERNÁNDEZ-MESA, Anabel, et al. Design management capability and product innovation in SMEs. Management Decision, 2013, vol. 51, no 3, p. 547-565.
0025-1747
http://hdl.handle.net/10234/96873
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00251741311309652
Organizational learning capability
Product innovation
Design management
Dynamic capability
Small to medium-sized enterprises
Innovation
Spain
Italy
Design management capability and product innovation in SMEs