During the last decade, a firm's ability to innovate has gained substantial attention in the literature devoted to innovation and strategic management. This study aims at discussing on what is the relationship of a firm's commitment to learn and its open-mindedness with its activity in introducing organizational innovations. The data collection was carried out in Russia. In order to make the research more specific, the organizational innovation is broken down into two subtypes, namely innovation in management practices and innovation in workplace organization.,The study is grounded on the data obtained by the surveying of 123 Russian top managers working in manufacturing firms. The structural equation modeling was approached in order to investigate the impact of a firm's commitment to learn and open-mindedness on its organizational innovation.,The results indicate that the commitment to learn and the open-mindedness have considerable impact on organizational innovation activity in a firm. The findings also provide evidence that both the investigated subtypes of organizational innovation are positively influenced by commitment to learn and open-mindedness, though the degree of that influence differs.,The literature traditionally focuses mostly on the technological type of innovation leaving the organizational innovation covered by scarce research. In this respect the study contributes to the theory of organizational innovation by elaborating its relations with organizational learning dimensions. Apart from the investigation on the research question at a general level, the study explores the specific context related to the manifestation of phenomenon in a transition economy of Russia.

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公司对学习和开放思想的承诺对其在俄罗斯制造公司中的组织创新的影响

在过去的十年中，公司的创新能力在致力于创新和战略管理的文献中得到了广泛关注。这项研究的目的是讨论公司对学习的承诺及其思想开放与引进组织创新活动之间的关系。数据收集是在俄罗斯进行的。为了使研究更加具体，组织创新分为管理实践创新和工作场所组织创新两个子类型。该研究基于对123名俄罗斯制造业最高管理者的调查所获得的数据公司。为了研究企业的影响，采用了结构方程模型。结果表明，学习的承诺和开放性对企业的组织创新活动具有重要影响。研究结果还提供了证据，表明尽管对研究创新和开放态度的投入程度，两种被研究的组织创新类型都受到积极的影响，尽管这种影响的程度有所不同。传统上，文献主要集中在创新的技术类型上，而覆盖组织创新通过稀缺的研究。在这方面，本研究通过阐述其与组织学习维度的关系，为组织创新理论做出了贡献。除了对研究问题进行一般性的调查之外，