The study proposes an organizational design framework that impacts innovation in corporate firms. In an emerging economy like Oman, innovation helps to reduce the dependence on oil revenues and enhance its international competitiveness. However, the corporate organizations in emerging economies are unable to innovate effectively because they are not designed for innovation. Further, scarcity of resources undermines their readiness for innovation. This study empirically validates measures of an entrepreneurial organizational design framework in Omani corporate sector. In order to explain how a corporate organizational design promotes innovation and clarify the missing links between corporate entrepreneurial activity and innovation, the mediating role of readiness for innovation (RFI) is tested. Using a quantitative research approach, data is collected from 401 corporate firms in Oman and analysed using structural equation modelling. The findings support the proposition that entrepreneurial organizational design promotes both radical and incremental innovation degree and frequency, while RFI partially mediates the relationship between entrepreneurial inputs and innovation outputs. The study contributes to the understanding of innovation in emerging economies as it explains that RFI helps firms to enhance its innovation potential by optimizing its resources, capabilities and processes for innovation. These measures are essential for organizations, particularly in emerging economies focused on low cost innovation. The findings of the study will inform managerial decision-making in terms of designing organizations for innovation and implementation of measures related to readiness for innovation.

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在新兴经济体中设计创新组织：创新准备的中介作用

这项研究提出了一个影响公司创新的组织设计框架。在像阿曼这样的新兴经济体中，创新有助于减少对石油收入的依赖并增强其国际竞争力。但是，新兴经济体中的公司组织不能有效地进行创新，因为它们不是为创新而设计的。此外，资源的匮乏会破坏其创新的意愿。这项研究从经验上验证了阿曼公司部门企业家组织设计框架的度量。为了解释公司组织设计如何促进创新并阐明公司创业活动与创新之间缺失的联系，测试了创新准备（RFI）的中介作用。使用定量研究方法，从阿曼的401家公司中收集数据，并使用结构方程模型进行分析。这些发现支持了这样一个命题，即企业家组织设计既可以促进激进和增量创新程度和频率，又可以让RFI部分地调节企业家投入与创新产出之间的关系。这项研究有助于理解新兴经济体的创新，因为它说明RFI通过优化创新的资源，能力和流程来帮助企业增强其创新潜力。这些措施对组织至关重要，特别是在专注于低成本创新的新兴经济体中。