Corrigendum

This article refers to:

Process and product innovation in virtual organisations: An investigation of Taiwanese information firms

Liang-Hung, L. (2012). Process and product innovation in virtual organisations: An investigation of Taiwanese information firms. Total Quality Management, 23(9–10), 1061–1074. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14783363.2012.669550

Reasons

The author regrets that the statistics introduced in the discussion of individual creativity and the virtual organisation (VO) structure were mistakenly providing a misleading result that H3 was supported, which it was not.

The corrected text is reproduced below:

Results

Table 1 displays descriptive statistics and correlations matrix for all variables. Tables 2 and 3 show regressions concerning organisational product and process innovations. Table 2 contains dependent variable of organisational product innovation and independent variables of individual creativity and virtual organisation (R² = 0.53). High-regression coefficients of creativity (b = 0.54, p < 0.01) and virtual organisation (b = 0.45, p < 0.01) imply that the direct effects of individual creativity and structure type are strong and stable. These also suggest individual creativity and structure type to be important determinants of organisational product innovation.

Table 2. Results of product innovation.

	Product innovation
Independent variables	b	t
Controls
Professionalism	0.16	1.51
Training	0.20	1.90
Firm size	0.21	1.80
Direct effects
Individual creativity	0.54	3.57**
Virtual organisation	0.45	2.96**
Moderating effect
Individual creativity × Virtual organisation	0.12	0.15
R^2	0.53
F	12.85**

Note: n = 128, ** p < 0.01.

Table 3. Results of process innovation.

	Process innovation
Independent variables	b	t
Controls
Professionalism	0.11	0.09
Training	0.25	2.35**
Firm size	0.05	0.08
Direct effects
Creativity	0.31	2.62**
Virtual organisation	0.32	2.69**
Moderating effect
Individual creativity × Virtual organisation	0.09	0.16
R^2	0.47
F	6.59**

Note: n = 128, ** p < 0.01.

Table 3 contains dependent variables of organisational process innovation and independent variables of individual creativity and virtual organisation (R² = 0.47). High-regression coefficients of creativity (b = 0.31, p < 0.01) and virtual organisation (b = 0.32, p < 0.01) imply that the direct effects of individual creativity and structure type are strong and stable. These also suggest individual creativity and structure type to be important determinants of organisational process innovation. Thus, H1 and H2 were supported. The non-significant coefficients of creativity × virtual organisation in Tables 2 and 3, however, did not support H3, indicating a stronger relationship between creativity and innovation in organisations that adopt a VO structure.

Further, since the Results section has been changed, several other paragraphs have also been altered. The following changes have been made:

The final sentence in the Abstract (‘Furthermore, VO adoption … organisational innovation.’) has been deleted.

On page 1064, the following paragraphs have been deleted:

‘Distinctions between creativity and innovation … (Amabile, 1988; Kanter, 1988; Woodman et al., 1993).’

and

‘The need to conduct multilevel studies in innovation research … encourages multilevel studies.’

On page 1065, the following sentence has been deleted: ‘The emergence process through … to improve organizational innovation.’

On page 1066, the following sentence has been deleted: ‘Structure, as the blueprint for and delegation of decisions (Huber, 1984).’

On page 1070, the following sentence has been deleted: ‘Innovativeness in organizational and individual levels … among different levels (Ahuja & Carley, 1999; Kraut, Steinfield, Clan, Butler, & Hoag, 1999).’

On page 1067, the numbers ‘320’ have been replaced by ‘480’. The numbers ‘20’ have been replaced by ‘3’. The numbers ‘6’ have been replaced by ‘3’. The numbers ‘0.86’ and ‘0.81’ have been replaced by ‘0.80 and 0.78’.

These corrections have now been made in the online version.