EMPIRICAL STUDY OF INNOVATION PERFORMANCE IN IT INDUSTRY AS AN OUTCOME OF ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY AND FACILITATION

Most Leaders acknowledge that Innovation Performance is critical for organization success, however important factors that influence them and measurement criteria for the same in this COVID era still remains a challenge. This study focuses on innovation ecosystems and the influence of facilitation in improving innovation performance of IT companies in Bangalore. While there is a consensus that individually every organizational factor plays a major role in innovation performance, study pertaining to joint research on facilitation and knowledge absorptive capacity is scarce. To accomplish this a study has been conducted with around 120 employees belonging to I/T companies. methodical questionnaire was used to collect their responses and statistical analysis and tests have been done using SPSS tool. 85 people responded and out of which 73 responses were complete. Demographic Analysis, Multivariate analysis and Regression tests are used to study the relationship between the variables. The results establish that Facilitation has a positive influence on Absorptive Capacity as well as innovation Performance and significantly has a Moderating effect between absorptive Capacity and Innovation Performance of Organization.