Julia Clemencia Naranjo Valencia

Organizational culture as determinant of product innovation

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study empirically the relationships among organizational culture and product innovation.Design/methodology/approach – The paper formulates some hypotheses from the literature review. These hypotheses are tested using structural equations modelling with data collected from 420 firms.Findings – Organizational culture is considered to be one of the key elements in both enhancing and inhibiting innovation. The findings provide evidence about this proposition. While ad hocratic cultures could enhance the development of new products or services, hierarchical cultures inhibit product innovation.Research limitations/implications – First, the data in the study were collected from one source. A second limitation is the cross‐sectional design of this research. Finally, only four of the six features of the competing value model have been evaluated. Apart from overcoming these limitations, suggestions for future research are: use longitudinal studies and multiple informants; s...

LA GESTIÓN HUMANA EN COLOMBIA: CARACTERÍSTICAS Y TENDENCIAS DE LA PRÁCTICA Y DE LA INVESTIGACIÓN

This analytical study briefly reviews the relationship between the modernization of business practices and human resource management in Colombia. It provides a description of the characteristics of human resource departments and practices, including a description of the labor market and employee relations consistent with human resource management. The last part discusses the generation of knowledge in this country, taking into account the three most relevant perspectives, namely, the sociological, humanist, and strategic perspectives, of which the latter links human resource departments and practices with the strategic objectives and goals of an organization, considering that its intangible assets are the main source of its sustainable competitive advantage.

PAPEL DE GESTIÓN HUMANA EN EL CUMPLIMIENTO DE LA RESPONSABILIDAD SOCIAL EMPRESARIAL

Human resource management is going beyond having a merely instrumental role, to becoming the support of organizational competitiveness. One of the areas in which human resource management must support companies is in fulfilling their social responsibility. This research aims to find evidence of this relationship based on a theoretical perspective and a comparison of a set of Colombian companies. We performed a triangulation of both quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection. We carried out an analysis of the validity and reliability of information, and used cluster techniques to analyze the information, and complemented them with descriptive and qualitative techniques, such as discourse analysis.