Innovation at Work: The Role of Organizational Culture

Today's world presents a situation of globalization and regional economic integration making the pulse of the world closely attached through the economic connection. The trend of globalization is both an opportunity and a challenge for social and economic development. Such a developing path not merely encourages cooperation but also brings competition alongside. To succeed in a complex environment, only by reforming and innovating can help societies, organizations, and individuals to gain sustainable competitive advantages. In this context, organizations should always keep innovation an indispensable means of survival. The result of innovation is to motivate them to continuously design various new products and business processes that the market demands. Especially in the new economic era where science and technology are changing rapidly and product life cycles are greatly shortened, the challenges facing innovation are more severe. Failure to update themselves in time may lead to the death of the organization. The underlying meaning of innovation is the courage to break through the limitations of the enterprise itself. The old systems that are out of place everywhere, and to cultivate innovativity requires the stimulation of organizational culture which can fundamentally change enterprises’ values, beliefs, rituals, symbols, and ways of doing things. The following research work study aims to explore the influence of organizational culture on innovation in Russian organizations and build a clear understanding of the relationship between organizational culture and business innovation. For this, the research question is formulated as: How does organizational culture and organization size influence business innovation in the Russian context? Data generated by a project “Monitoring Survey of Innovative Behaviour of the Population” conducted by the National Research University Higher School of Economics in 2019 are used. The results show organizational culture is strongly connected with business innovation and it creates influences by adapting appropriate innovation management practices. In addition, large and small organizations affect innovativity differently.