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- Author
- Dasanayaka, SWSB; Sardana, Guru Datt
- Title
- Organizational culture and innovation: An exploratory study of Sri Lankan gift and decorative-ware sector firms
- Journal Name
- Euro Asia Journal of Management
- Pub. Info
- Dec. 2008, Vol.18, No.2, pp. 103-122
- Abstract
- Abstract : The prime objective of this paper is to investigate the impact of organizational culture on innovations in Sri Lankan gift and decorative-ware sector. This study begins with assessing dominant cultural types in characteristics of Clan, Adhocracy, Hierarchy and Market by using Cameron & Quinn's Competing Values Framework among selected 45 Sri Lankan giftware firms. The study moreover, assesses innovativeness of the Sri Lankan giftware manufacturing sector and the types of innovations predominant among these firms. Furthermore, it investigates whether there is a significant correlation between scale of culture dimensions and degree of innovativeness. Finally, it identifies most dominant cultural dimensions that need to be strengthened in giftware manufacturing firms in Sri Lanka to enhance their innovativeness thereby making them more competitive in the global marketplace. Paragraph Headings: 1. Introduction 2. Organizational innovation 3. Organizational culture 4. Conceptual framework of thr study 4.1. Linkage between innovation and organizational culture 4.2. The framework 4.3. Hypotheses 5. Methodology and data 5.1. Sample 5.2. Data collecton 5.3. Descriptive statistics on aspects of organization culture 5.4. ANOVA analysis and testing of hypotheses 6. Discussion 7. Managerial implication and further research Tables: 1. Descriptive statistics of sample characteristics 2. Dominant organization culture types 3. Means scores of culture type for overall Giftware industry 4. Innovation types summary 5. One way ANOVA for mean scores assigned to the four culture types 6. One way ANOVA analysis for dominant culture types on the metrics of organizational innovativeness 7. One way ANOVA analysis for dominant culture types on innovation types 8. Descriptive results of the one way ANOVA analysis for dominant culture types on different innovation types Figures: 1. Innovation framework 2. Conceptural framework of the study