By using firm-level data provided by the fourth round of the (Italian) Community Innovation Survey (CIS 2012), this … paper explores whether the implementation of specific changes in work organisation within a firm influences its innovation … performance, not only directly, but also via reinforcing the link between human capital resources and innovation. The authors also …

the optimal organizational governance perform less well in terms of process innovation than more aligned competitors, but … (ii) that misalignment has a positive effect on product innovation. However, this counterintuitive result is strongly …