Browsing by Author "Acar, Zafer"

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Building Technological Innovation Capabilities: Enhancing Technological Innovation Performance
(Acad Conferences Ltd, 2011) Ince, Huseyin; Imamoglu, Salih Zeki; Kocoglu, Ipek; Acar, Zafer; Eren, Serap
Technological innovation capabilities (TICs) support firm level resource integration and technologic innovation strategies by harmonizing firm's different competences and organizational assets with the external environment (Yam et al., in press). Prior research on TIC suggests that the effective exploitation of firm resources, especially technological knowledge, and the accumulation of TIC contributes to innovation outputs (Yam et al., in press), which in turn has significant impact on technological innovation performance (TIP) and competitive advantage. Although some studies in the literature presents the relationship between TIC and TIP, the impact of TIC on TIP and competitive advantage constitutes a gap in the literature. Furthermore, even though TIC is considered as an attractive research domain by se, its detailed analysis based on a theoretical background especially from organizational capabilities framework in the turbulent market of today's hyper-competitive environment points a gap not widely researched in the literature. In this scope, the concepts of technology, innovation, technological innovation and the importance of these concepts have been explained first based on the literature. Secondly, the technological innovation strategies that businesses require to survive in the competitive environment and the respective TICs that they can build for this purpose have been presented. Hypotheses have been developed by evaluating the idea that businesses can increase their technological innovation performances by gaining these qualifications and the effects of gaining these qualifications providing businesses with a competitive advantage. In order to test the provided hypotheses, the data obtained through the 315 surveys conducted in the IT-telecommunication sector have been analyzed through structural equation modeling (SEM) using AMOS 4.0. A four step approach have been followed in the analysis of the data obtained through the methodology stage of the research, particularly; 1-) second-order confirmatory factor analyses (CFA), 2-) reliability and validity analysis, 3-) correlation analysis, and 4-) structural equations modeling analysis.
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The Effects of Process Innovation in Logistics Service
(Acad Conferences Ltd, 2010) Acar, Zafer; Gunsel, Ayse
As a key determinant of competitiveness and economic growth, innovation is an important issue for many industries in modern economies. Accordingly the concept of innovation becomes a topic of interest among academicians and practitioners. There are many studies and classifications concerning innovation such as technical, process, product and administrative. However, much of what is written about innovation focuses generally on product innovation while underestimating the process dimensions of innovativeness. Thus it is a great mistake to consider the concept of innovativeness only in the frame of product and high-tech issues. Process innovativeness is also a main theme to acquire competitive advantage in many industries such as logistics. Logistics is a basic activity in the context of value chain. It is widely acknowledged that logistics and its sub factors are vital for utilizing business strategies successfully through distribution flexibility and responsiveness. As a result of the blurring boundaries from local to the international and global in globalizing economies, logistics industry today seems to be highly dynamic. Innovativeness on logistics processes appears to be an important way to differentiate the logistics capabilities and ultimately to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. Whether the literature abounds of evidences about the positive effects of logistics capabilities on business performance; there are only a few studies on logistics in concept of innovation. Based on contents of logistics and innovativeness, and in the context of process innovativeness, this paper aims to investigate the relationships among logistic capabilities, process innovativeness and firm performance. For this purpose a survey is conducted on 39 logistics firms from the database of Istanbul Chamber of Commerce. The collected data is submitted to validity, reliability and exploratory factor analysis. Then we used regression analysis to explore mutual relationships between the variables. As a result, the effects of process innovativeness on business performance of logistic firms are revealed and the moderator role of process innovativeness on the relationship between logistic capabilities and quantitative business performance is uncovered.