The effects of a firm's capabilities on its innovativeness: the mediating roles of resource flexibility
ISSN: 1746-5265
Article publication date: 21 September 2022
Issue publication date: 30 September 2022
Abstract
Purpose
This study examines the effects of technological and marketing capabilities on administrative and product innovativeness, and the mediation effects of resource flexibility.
Design/methodology/approach
This study tests a conceptual model based on survey data from 303 Chinese firms using structural equation modeling.
Findings
Technological and marketing capabilities are found to have positive effects on administrative and product innovativeness, as well as resource flexibility. Resource flexibility positively influenced administrative innovativeness and product innovativeness, and resource flexibility mediated the relationships between technological and marketing capability and administrative and product innovativeness.
Originality/value
This study advances the authors' understanding of firm innovativeness and resource flexibility, addresses the missing link between firm capability and firm innovativeness, and contributes to the authors' knowledge of value-generating paths in resource management research.
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Acknowledgements
Data availability statement: The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author, upon reasonable request.
Conflict of interest disclosure: There is no conflict of interest to report.
The authors thank Professor Rūta Kazlauskaitė and Professor Anna Nosella and the two anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments.
Funding: This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Award Number: 71972151; 72272119).
Citation
Gao, Y., Yang, W. and Shen, H. (2022), "The effects of a firm's capabilities on its innovativeness: the mediating roles of resource flexibility", Baltic Journal of Management, Vol. 17 No. 5, pp. 738-755. https://doi.org/10.1108/BJM-02-2022-0064
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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