Purpose

This study aims to investigate the relationship between knowledge-based dynamic capability and organizational structure on team innovative performance in Brazilian industrial companies.

Design/methodology/approach

This study is based on data from a survey of 262 respondents from 65 companies in the Brazilian industrial sector with project teams and followed the partial least squares approach to model the structural equation that was used for data analysis.

Findings

The results of the study show that mechanical structures with a high degree of formalization and centralization have a negative impact on knowledge-based dynamic capability and integration has a positive relationship with dynamic capability. Moreover, the research shows that project team innovative performance is directly affected by knowledge generation and combination capability; however, knowledge acquisition/absorption does not interfere with project team innovative activity.

Practical implications

This study contributes to the managers of firms in the industrial sector by analyzing how the characteristics of organizational structure impact dynamic capability and project team innovative performance. The results of this study indicate that more mechanical structures have more difficulty in developing knowledge-based dynamic capability in the context of project teams.

Originality/value

This study advances the concept of knowledge-based dynamic capability from the firm level to the project team level. This study accesses a research gap that characterizes organizational structure as an antecedent of dynamic capability, analyzing the impact of organizational structure on the dimensions of dynamic capability and of the latter on project team innovative performance.

中文翻译：

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项目团队的创新绩效：组织结构和知识型动态能力的作用

目的

本研究旨在探讨基于知识的动态能力与组织结构对巴西工业企业团队创新绩效的影响。

设计/方法/方法

本研究基于对来自巴西工业部门 65 家公司和项目团队的 262 名受访者的调查数据，并遵循偏最小二乘法对用于数据分析的结构方程进行建模。

发现

研究结果表明，高度形式化和集中化的机械结构对基于知识的动态能力有负面影响，集成与动态能力呈正相关。此外，研究表明，项目团队的创新绩效直接受知识生成和组合能力的影响；然而，知识获取/吸收不会干扰项目团队的创新活动。

实际影响

本研究通过分析组织结构的特征如何影响动态能力和项目团队创新绩效，为工业部门的公司管理者做出贡献。这项研究的结果表明，在项目团队的背景下，更多的机械结构更难以开发基于知识的动态能力。

原创性/价值

本研究将基于知识的动态能力的概念从公司层面推进到项目团队层面。本研究访问了将组织结构表征为动态能力的前因的研究空白，分析了组织结构对动态能力维度的影响以及后者对项目团队创新绩效的影响。