국내 제조기업의 기술혁신 결정요인 중요도 분석: 조직 내부역량과 외부환경을 중심으로

In recent years, many organizations have looked upon technological innovation as the means by which they could maintain a competitive edge. Despite previous academic efforts to examine determinants of innovation, an AHP(analytic hierarchy process) based study of critical factors for innovation implementation in the context of Korean manufacturing firms has rarely been analysed. This paper tries to fill this gap by investigating the critical factors and sub-factors that determine the implementation of technological innovation. It incorporates the main findings of a recent study, in which an AHP approach was employed to prioritize the relative importance of two critical factors and eight sub-factors in terms of firms' internal capability and external environment. Th findings advocate that firms would stress the internal capability factor rather than external environmental factors around firms for technological innovation. Leadership, organizational culture and management support are among the most important sub-factors. The results suggests a generic hierarchy model for firms to prioritize the critical factors and formulate strategies for implementing technological innovation.