Premises for innovation: Italian validation and dimensionality of the Inventory of Organizational Innovativeness (IOI)

Maria Luisa Farnese, Roberta Fida

Accepted December 30, 2016

First published December 30, 2016

https://doi.org/10.26387/bpa.277.5

Abstract

Literature underlines the role of the organizational orientation toward innovation as a precursor of
its effective capability to generate and adopt innovations, in this way gaining competitive advantages. However less
attention has been devoted to the methodological issues concerning how to measure this construct. Indeed, the
few existing measures are often one-dimensional and neglect the multiple facets of this construct. In this paper we
examine the multidimensional IOI-Inventory of Organizational Innovativeness (Tang, 1999) with the aim of verifying
its psychometrics properties, validating it in the Italian context, and exploring the relationships among its dimensions
and other related constructs (servant leadership, climate for support to innovation, climate for participative safety) and
outcomes (performance and innovation adoption). Results of the confirmatory factor analysis on a sample of 616 Italian
employees did not support the theoretical 9-factor structure. The subsequent exploratory factor analysis attested for a
6-factor model in line with the empirical solution emerged in a previous research. Results of the correlations confirmed
the relationship of the IOI’s dimensions with both correlated and outcomes measures. Overall, findings of this study
attested for the good psychometric properties of the IOI and support that this inventory is a reliable and valid measure
of the organizational orientation toward innovation to be used to assess the different facets that contribute to promote
the innovation adoption.

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Farnese Maria Luisa . Fida Roberta . Premises for innovation: Italian validation and dimensionality of the Inventory of Organizational Innovativeness (IOI). BPA Applied Psychology Bulletin. 2016;277(1):51-64. doi:10.26387/bpa.277.1.

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