Organizational Improvisation and Product Innovation Performance: A Meta-analysis

Despite a surge of studies examining the impact of organizational improvisation on product innovation performance, empirical researches showed the controversial results. To resolve this problem, this paper conducted a meta-analysis to restudy the relationship between organizational improvisation and product innovation performance based on the empirical research results of 25 independent samples. And this paper identified some moderators affecting this relationship. The research results indicated that the organizational improvisation—product innovation performance link was positive and significant. Results also showed that this relationship is context dependent. Factors such as the publication time, industrial characteristics, level of analysis, measuring dimensions affected the impact of organizational improvisation on product innovation performance to a large extent. In addition, publication bias, sensitive analysis and cumulative analysis were carried out. Based on these findings, we develop recommendations for future research.

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