Vol. 1 No. 2 (2025)
Articles

The effects of manager’s strategic vision on innovation performance: A macro-level study

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  • Juan Jose Lull,
  • Roberto Cervelló-Royo,
  • Jose-Luis Galdon-Salvador
Juan Jose Lull
Department of Business Organization, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain
Roberto Cervelló-Royo
Department of Economic and Social Sciences, Universitat Politècnica de València
Jose-Luis Galdon-Salvador
Department of Business Organization, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain
JOINETECH, volume 1, issue 2, 2025

Published 2025-12-30

Keywords

  • innovation,
  • knowledge management,
  • business intelligence,
  • strategic vision

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The effects of manager’s strategic vision on innovation performance: A macro-level study. (2025). JOINETECH (International Journal of Economic and Technological Studies), 1(2), 69-80. https://doi.org/10.65479/joinetech.23

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Abstract

Knowledge management has strong importance in innovative processes, furthermore, it can be stated that competitive intelligence and knowledge generation systems for top managers have effect on business innovation. This article establishes a theoretical framework based on the Resourced-Based View (RBV) to analyze the role of top managers’ strategic vision in the success of innovation processes and to provide some empirical evidence of the value of business intelligence systems on the innovation performance in the organizations. Results show there is a strong relationship between top managers’ vision and innovation performance; moreover, from the relevance of the top managers’ vision derives the value of the business intelligence systems, which is the top managers’ main tool for learning and knowledge creation.

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