Structural Capital and Innovation Capabilities

Organizational knowledge, as well as their different manifestations, may play a critical role for effective development of the firm processes and products (Kogut and Zander, 1996; Teece, 1998; Alegre and Lapiedra, 2005). The present work explores the influence that the different manifestations of organizational knowledge, or structural capital, show on the innovation capability of professional service firms. To achieve this purpose, in a first section an exploratory factor analysis is carried out. From it, the main blocks of organizational capital are obtained. In the next step, the basic hypotheses about the positive influence of these types of structural assets, on firm innovation are presented.