Trust and Innovativeness in Polish Enterprises
Journal Title: International Journal of Contemporary Management - Year 2010, Vol 9, Issue 3
Abstract
Trust and innovativeness are very pivotal parts of nowadays economic reality, which is knowledge-based. Trust is a coordination mechanism in network forms, in communities, which presents subjective probability that certain person or subject, with whom/which we corporate, will carry out assigned tasks or that at least his/its activities will not be so harmful that it will be necessary to give up collaboration. Without trust corporation is not possible. Thus, it plays so important role, as product/ processes, innovations are oft en effects of collaboration. Seeing that, there appears a question wherever trust between collaborating parties has impact on innovativeness of an enterprise. Innovativeness is understood as the ability of an enterprise to deliver new product, process, and methods of organising, creation of market. In this article innovativeness encompasses four dimensions: product, process, organisational and marketing innovativeness. There are presented theoretical and empirical relationships between inter-organisational trust and enterprise’s innovativeness. The relation between trust and innovativeness was analyses on the basis of survey among 108 enterprises. The formulated hypotheses of the impact of trust on mentioned innovativeness dimensions were proven by the statistical inference.
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Anna Sankowska
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