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Management Activity Linkages to Innovation Deconstruction: An Exploratory Study of the Furniture Industry in Croatia

Corporate leaders often view innovation as a key contributor to superior profits, market sharing, and competitive positioning. However, confusion regarding the definition of innovation, how to create it, and how to implement it remains. In countries that are recent European Union members, little research has been done on innovation and how innovation is related to corporate management activities. In this study, the linkages were examined in the Croatian furniture industry. The first part of the study was deconstruct innovation into three components: product innovation, production process innovation, and human resource innovation. The second part of the study asses the relationships between these innovation components and four company management activities/factors (research and development investments, company flexibility, export activity, and the Internet usage) were examined. Scale testing resulted in valid deconstruction measures of innovation. Hypothesized correlations between innovation components and company management factors were supported, although the results were not fully consistent with those of previous studies.

Furniture industry ; Innovation deconstruction ; Management activities ; Croatia

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