Strategic sustainability of an organisation and organisational innovation: Аn empirical study

Ensuring the strategic resilience of an organisation is important in the context of the need to develop the economy in a changing external environment. The presence of a significant proportion of strategically stable economic entities ultimately ensures the development of the national economy. The purpose of this work is to determine the relationship between the strategic sustainability of the organisation and the adoption of organisational innovation. Various methods were used to achieve this goal, including searching for information in open sources, conducting in-depth interviews and surveys of companies, and analysing the data obtained, including the use of update software. The article discusses key tools for ensuring strategic resilience. Interviews with industry experts revealed general criteria for an organisation that can be considered strategically sustainable. The novelty of this study is to determine the relationship between ensuring the strategic sustainability of an organisation through organisational innovation. Based on the analysis of 120 Russian companies from various industries, it was found that the majority of companies (72%) have introduced organisational innovations at least once, while in a significant proportion of companies the process of introducing organisational innovations is ongoing (38%). Organisations implement organisational innovations to maintain their own effectiveness and to remain competitive. In some cases, the introduction of organisational innovation may be a natural response to a change in the business model and/or an update of the organisation՚s strategy. The analysis revealed that the frequency of implementation of organisational innovations has a greater impact on the strategic stability of an organisation than just the fact of their implementation. Most strategically stable companies implement organisational innovation more often than strategically unstable companies. The practical significance of this study lies in the fact that the findings can be applied to the practical activities of organisations, and they also form the basis for further research in the field of strategic sustainability and organisational innovation.

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