Factorial Connections in the Organizational Innovation: Proposed Systemization

In order to accomplish its innovational objectives, a company needs an optimal allocation of resources based on the appropriate mix of creativity and innovation factors. A multitude of theories, philosophies and approaches exists in the field of creativity and innovation (CRIN). The starting point of our study is the hypothesis of a critical mass for each innovational factor and for the whole aggregate; a second hypothesis states the existence of a critical mixture of organizational creativity and innovation factors. Our aim is to explore and systemize the arguments for the theoretical validation of these hypotheses and to propose a concrete manner of estimation for the costs and remunerations of innovational factors for an organization. We use the previous studies of Amabile (1998), Bouchard and Bose (2006), Ford (1993), Woodman, Sawyer and Grifin (1993), Nahapiet, and Ghoshal (1998), Lucy Lu (2008), Yuan Li, Yongbin Zhao, and Yi Liu (2006), Ming-Ten Tsai, and Shuang-Shii Chuang (2009), among others, for the conceptual bases of organizational innovation and innovational paradigm. The study has, as main stages: identification of exogenous variables of creativity and innovation, analysis of each identified factor, identification of each factor's effects (endogenous variables of our analysis), proposed coherent system of factors, as a function of cause-effect type, identification of key action variables for the organization, building possible relations for the estimation of costs and remunerations. From methodological point of view, we used a deductive approach, as well as abductive (intuitional) ones. The complete system of organizational innovation factors includes predispositional variables (sensation, uniqueness, and capability), situational variables (personal change, needs, dissatisfaction and inadequacies) and decisional variables (individual autonomy, personal commitment, control through resources and motivation). The identified matrix could be used by an organization in order to establish the appropriate innovational strategy.