Business Research Project: Innovation Management and Culture

This report, submitted as part of a business research project, investigates the relationship between innovation management and organizational culture. The report identifies the research problem as challenges in identifying common aspects of these two concepts, such as aligning innovation strategy with business needs and addressing a lack of collaboration among stakeholders. The research includes a literature search using secondary data from peer-reviewed journals, a business report proposing a framework for SMEs, and a relevant news item. The report highlights common aspects such as work climate, leadership, operational and financial performance, and proposes research questions such as identifying the most common aspects, differences, and impact of innovation management on organizational culture. The findings suggest the importance of performance measurement and the role of innovation managers in comprehending the relationship between organizational culture and innovation management. The report also discusses the use of AI and virtual reality and innovative talents to manage the challenges of both concepts.

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Innovation management and organizational culture
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Table of Contents
1. Topic identification..................................................................................................2
2. Literature search.....................................................................................................2
2.1 Business report.................................................................................................3
2.2.1 Introduction.................................................................................................3
2.2.2 Data collection............................................................................................3
2.2.3 Findings of the report..................................................................................3
2.2 Relevant current news item...............................................................................4
3. Statement of research problem..............................................................................5
4. Research questions................................................................................................5
5. References..............................................................................................................6

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1. Topic identification
The prime determination of the research is to identify the relationship and common
aspects organization culture and innovation management.
Justification behind the selection of the topic: This topic is very much interest
for my project team as there is an increasing conflict among the employees of a business
due to the incorporation of any new concept. According to the recent trends it can be said
that organization culture gets affected due to innovation management.
2. Literature search
The data collection method which was selected by our team is secondary data
collection where data in the form of peer reviewed journal has been collected from Google
Scholar. Good textual understanding about the topic was understood from the data
collected from peer reviewed journal.
According to Rothaermel (2017), most of the employees of a business environment
faces huge amount of challenge regarding any type of changes such as the technologies
used and the deployment of the innovative business practices. The paper highlighted that
each of these concerns have a huge impact on the organization culture and ultimately
leads to low productivity (Eisend, Evanschitzky and Gilliland 2016). However, as
elaborated by Elsbach and Stigliani (2018), organization culture have an impact on both
the organizational growth as well as innovation management (Bortolotti, Boscari and
Danese 2015). The paper helped in understanding that performance of a business
depends upon the maintaining organization culture and address the challenges of
innovation management and each of them are connected with each other.
But, as elaborated by Dubey et al. (2017), gathering of ideas and adapting new
ideas are the most significant aspects to create a professional culture. The paper
supported the discussions of by Elsbach and Stigliani (2018), the same time this data
source helped in understanding that both disruptive innovation and incremental disruption
can be enhanced in the first place if innovation management is handled in a professional
manner (Naqshbandi, Kaur and Ma 2015). The paper highlighted that use of proper tools
and creation of innovation teams are the very much useful to identify a relationship among
innovation management and organization culture (Szczepańska-Woszczyna 2015). The
data source highlighted that both innovation management and organizational culture have

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different common aspects such as the management of the resources and maintaining the
mission and vision of the business.
However, on the contrary, as mentioned by Nowacki and Bachnik (2016), it is very
much significant for commercial organization must be focusing on the practice of resource
management in order to have a professional work culture. The researcher of the paper
indicated that the efficiency of the resources is very much useful to deal with the
challenges of innovation management.
As declared by Prado-Gascó, Pardo and Pérez-Campos (2017), there is a
connection between each elements of organization culture such as chain of command,
span of control and degree of formalization and innovation management. The researcher
of this journal highlighted that capabilities of the resources, strategies of the business,
structure of the business and the business culture which is maintained in the business
(Alvesson and Sveningsson 2015). The paper highlighted that solid management is also
very much useful to address the challenges of innovation management and challenges of
maintaining organizational culture. The journal highlighted that the role of the innovation
manager is very much significant to comprehend the common aspects of organizational
culture and innovation management.
2.1 Business report
2.2.1 Introduction
The notable determination of the business report is to identify the how innovation
management and organization culture are maintained with each other (Saunila 2016). A
framework was proposed in this paper which can be very much useful for most of the
SME’s all over the world to enhance their organizational culture and enhance their
innovation management strategy.
2.2.2 Data collection
Secondary type data collection was considered in this business report.
2.2.3 Findings of the report
The investigators of this business report proposed a frame work for the
improvement of the performance of the employees of SME with the help of concepts like
innovation management and maintaining organization culture. The report identified that
work climate and leadership culture are two common aspects of both innovation
management and organization culture. The other common aspects of these two concept is
the enhancement of the operational performance and the financial performance. The

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proposed framework highlighted that performance management, performance and the
contextual factors like size of the business and nature of the industry are very much
related with each both innovation management and organizational culture. The report
found out that performance measurement which is common aspects of both innovation
management and organizational culture is very much useful to enhance the performance
of the resources of a business. The below diagram which was there in the business report
is illustrated below.
Figure 1: Improvement of innovation capability
(Source: Saunila 2016)
2.2 Relevant current news item
Based on the risk and compliance journal published in the Wall Street Journal, it
can be said that resilient and innovative organizational culture are very much related with
innovation and organizational culture. Based on this new, it can be said that organization
culture and innovation management have diverse common aspects such as the
management of the resources. Based on the current news item, it can be said that
professional services has to be maintained at all cost regarding any of the two concepts
which are used by commercial organizations. The paper is very much useful to understand
that collaboration among the employees of the business is very much required to
understand the collaboration required for each of the two aspects. This new article
accepted that the use of artificial intelligence and virtual reality can be very much useful to

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deal with the diverse concepts of innovation management and organizational culture
(Developing a Resilient, Innovative Organizational Culture. 2016). This new article was
very much significant to understand that innovative talents are very much required to
address both innovation management and organizational culture in a business. The new
article focused on the significance of performance evaluation program as well as these
programs are directly related with both maintaining a professional organizational culture
and management of the resources who are attached with each of these two concepts.
Motivating each of the employee is a must for each of these two concepts. The cultural
traits of the leaders is very much useful to address the challenges of managing
organizational culture as well such as communication issues, maintaining the employee
turnover and the diverse categories of business conflicts.
3. Statement of research problem
There are diverse categories of challenges associated with the identification of the
common aspects of innovation management and organization culture such as the
selection of the innovation strategy which has to be aligned with the business needs of a
business. Lack of collaboration and diversity among the stakeholders of the business are
the other concern associated with the identification of the common aspects of maintaining
organizational culture and innovation management. Our team shall work on addressing
this challenge so that the common aspects of these two concepts are identified.
4. Research questions
The questions of this research are as followings:
 What are the most common aspects of innovation management and organizational
culture?
 What are the differences between innovation management and organizational
culture?
 What is the impact of innovation management in organizational culture?

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5. References
Alvesson, M. and Sveningsson, S., 2015. Changing organizational culture: Cultural
change work in progress. Routledge.
Bortolotti, T., Boscari, S. and Danese, P., 2015. Successful lean implementation:
Organizational culture and soft lean practices. International Journal of Production
Economics, 160, pp.182-201.
Developing a Resilient, Innovative Organizational Culture. 2016. [online] Available at:
https://deloitte.wsj.com/riskandcompliance/2016/04/21/developing-a-resilient-innovative-
organizational-culture/ [Accessed 20 Dec. 2019].
Dubey, R., Gunasekaran, A., Helo, P., Papadopoulos, T., Childe, S.J. and Sahay, B.S.,
2017. Explaining the impact of reconfigurable manufacturing systems on environmental
performance: The role of top management and organizational culture. Journal of cleaner
production, 141, pp.56-66.
Eisend, M., Evanschitzky, H. and Gilliland, D.I., 2016. The influence of organizational and
national culture on new product performance. Journal of Product Innovation Management,
33(3), pp.260-276.
Elsbach, K.D. and Stigliani, I., 2018. Design thinking and organizational culture: A review
and framework for future research. Journal of Management, 44(6), pp.2274-2306.
Naqshbandi, M.M., Kaur, S. and Ma, P., 2015. What organizational culture types enable
and retard open innovation?. Quality & Quantity, 49(5), pp.2123-2144.
Nowacki, R. and Bachnik, K., 2016. Innovations within knowledge management. Journal of
Business Research, 69(5), pp.1577-1581.
Prado-Gascó, V., Pardo, I.Q. and Pérez-Campos, C., 2017. Knowledge management and
organizational culture in a software development enterprise. Journal of Small Business
Strategy, 27(1), pp.37-50.
Rothaermel, F.T., 2017. Strategic management. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education.
Saunila, M., 2016. Performance measurement approach for innovation capability in
SMEs. International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, 65(2), pp.162-
176.

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Szczepańska-Woszczyna, K., 2015. Leadership and organizational culture as the
normative influence of top management on employee's behaviour in the innovation
process. Procedia Economics and Finance, 34, pp.396-402.