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 Volume 5, Issue 4 (April 2018), Pages: 42-55

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: Organizational culture, resources, and innovativeness of shipbuilding companies: Moderating role of external factors

 Author(s): Ahmed Mohammed Kamaruddeen *, Chieng Tiong Koh, Wahida Wahi, Angela Ting Mee Yii

 Affiliation(s):

 Quantity Surveying Programme, School of Built Environment, University College of Technology Sarawak, Sibu, Malaysia

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2018.04.006

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 Abstract:

The considerable attention of Malaysian government on innovativeness, the quest to increase her market share from 1% to 2% of the global shipbuilding industry by 2020, and the strategic regional development plan of the Sarawak state in particular that focuses on the priority sectors including the Maritime industry motivated the conduct of this study. This paper, therefore, assesses the current innovativeness level among the shipbuilding companies; examines the direct relationship between independent variables (company culture and resources), the dependent variable (company innovativeness) and the moderating effect of external factors on the relationship. We used the simple random sampling to collect data from shipbuilding companies in Sarawak. We received 41 valid questionnaires out of 65 questionnaires distributed, yielding 63% response rate. We used descriptive statistics to determine the extent of innovativeness of the shipbuilding companies. PLS SEM was employed to test the direct and moderating effects on the variables. The findings of this research suggest that the extent of organizational innovativeness of the shipbuilding companies in Sarawak is in the category of “early majority” based on the mean score of 3.09 and this is slightly lower compared to the extent of innovativeness among the housing developers in Malaysia which was found to be at “adopter” category based on the mean score of 3.67 in a previous related study. While organizational culture was found to have negative relationship with innovativeness, organizational resources showed a significant positive relationship with innovativeness among the shipbuilding companies. Additionally, external factors moderate the relationships between resources and innovativeness. While the small sample size used in data collection is a major limitation of this study. It is hoped that our findings complement the existing body of knowledge and provides a direction for the future innovativeness studies. 

 © 2018 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Organizational culture, Resources, External factors, Innovativeness, Shipbuilding companies

 Article History: Received 20 October 2017, Received in revised form 29 January 2018, Accepted 30 January 2018

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2018.04.006

 Citation:

 Kamaruddeen AM, Koh CT, Wahi W, and Yii ATM (2018). Organizational culture, resources, and innovativeness of shipbuilding companies: Moderating role of external factors. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 5(4): 42-55

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