International Journal of Social Science and Business (IJSSB)

Adequate Organizational Responsiveness to Innovation (ORI) is a necessary condition for both organization performance and a creative economy. Hence, understanding the antecedents of organizations’ responsiveness to innovation is critical. Nevertheless, in investigating ORI, prior studies have used intra-organizational factors and inter-organizational conditions as mutually exclusive rather than as complementary. In this study, we propose to contribute filling that gap by arguing that ORI is a function of, not only “Intra-Organizations Behavioral Factors” (IOBF) or “Inter-Organizations Environmental Conditions” (IOEC) taken separately but rather of the synergetic combination of both [ORI = f(IOBF+IOEC) + IOBF*IOEC]. We then translate this mathematical formulation into an Integrative Model of Organizations’ Responsiveness to Innovations (IMORI) to be put to empirical testing in future studies.