Footnote:
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments December 1996 erstellt
Description:
This paper reviews the first results from a large Danish survey on organizational innovation within the private business sector. The 1,900 surveyed firms are divided in two groups of an almost equal size according to whether or not they have undertaken organizational innovation during the period of 1993-95, i.e., innovative Y-firms and non-innovative N-firms. It appears that the Y-firms to a larger extent than the N-firms employ various types of work organizational principles that facilitate intraorganizational integration and the delegation of authority. The Y-firms find themselves in more competitive environments and are more focused on the global market than the N-firms and do, to a larger extent, employ functional flexibility and combine technical and organizational innovation in order to meet this challenge. However, 1/3 of the N-firms display organizational characteristics very similar to the Y-firm, and it is hypothesized that this fraction, which amounts to approximately 1/7 of the total sample, comprises firms which have innovated organizationally in the past, i.e., before 1993. Finally, Y- and N-firms have in common the fact that they have intensified their cooperative relationships with customers and subcontractors