Supporting Strategies for Organizational Innovation and Their Impact on the Achieving Competitive Advantage in Jordanian Islamic Bank

Faraj Harahsheh, Mohamed Abu Qulah

Abstract


The purpose of this paper is to identify supporting strategies for organizational innovation and their impact on the achieving competitive advantage. The paper dealt with some supporting for organizational innovation through (leadership style, participation, organizational culture, organizational structure, incentives, training and development) as independent variables affect the competitive advantage as the dependent variable. The major findings of the paper were that no effect of independent variables on the dependent variable (competitive advantage) except the independent variable (training and development) have an impact on the competitive advantage.


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Supporting strategy; Organizational innovation; Competitive advantage

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