An Immersion into the Dynamic Capability Model of Innovation : An Empirical Test Involving E-Entrepreneurs

E-businesses are especially prone to rapid, drastic changes and innovations.Entrepreneurs' innovative capabilities come from their ability to create, deploy, integrate, and reconfigure organizationally embedded and rent-generating resources.Three capabilities--functional, integrative, and innovative--are addressed in this study, which seeks to determine the factors that affect a firm's integrative and innovative capabilities. The data sample included 120 entrepreneurs of e-commerce companies who were randomly sampled by the Internet sector of the CorpTech Company Profiles Database via online questionnaires.Both zero-order correlations and mediated regression were used to analyze the data.The findings indicated that the development of a technology infrastructure is important prior to the creation of innovations related to new products and services.Available resources and capabilities are significant but only to an extent.Further, an organization's integrative abilities are essential to innovation, while functional capabilities indirectly affect innovation via integrative capabilities.(AKP)