A Survey of Marketing Knowledge Application Mediating Role to Improve Organizational Innovation through Customer Capital Management: Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)

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10.22034/cbsj.2014.6131

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The purpose of this study is to design a model for developing organizational innovation through customer capital management and markeing knowledge application.At First, reviewing historical researches, the metrics are extracted. The population consists of managers and experts in thirteen companies of Iran Transfo group and samples are selected from randomly among these companies. The research data is ghatherd by questionnaire and finally the operational model using structural equation modeling (SEM) is developed. The results show that respectively product and service innovation, process innovation & managerial innovation and through customer capital and markeing knowledge application improves organizational innovation. Also, customer capital directly affects respectively product and service innovation, managerial innovation & process innovation.

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