Meaningful Innovation: Conceptual Dimensions, Measurement and Innovation Performance

Abstract

Abstract: Meaningful Innovation (MI), as a new paradigm that leads enterprises to actively respond to social demands in the new era and helps them comprehensively improve their sustainable competitive advantages and achieve systematic transcendence, starts to get attention. However, the relevant studies are still to be mature, especially evidenced by the lack of reliable measurement of the key concepts of the MI and the empirical test of the core framework. Based on the existing literature, this study systematically reviews the theoretical basis of the MI, summarizes and identifies its basic framework and core concepts. Furthermore, interview and questionnaire are used to conduct scale development, and reliability and validity test aiming at the five core dimensions of meaningful innovation, and further verify the significant positive influence of meaning orientation (MO) on innovation performance. On this basis, a reliable measurement model of the MI is built in order to provide implications for the further development of this paradigm.

Key words: meaningful innovation, meaning-orientation, MO-Scale, scale development, innovation performance

Qu Guannan, Jie Yuan, Chen Jin, Wang Luyao, Juan Rogers. Meaningful Innovation: Conceptual Dimensions, Measurement and Innovation Performance[J]. Management Review, 2023, 35(7): 86-95.

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