Product Innovation and Organizational Resilience in Public Universities in South-South Nigeria

Abstract

This study empirically investigates the association between product innovation and organizational resilience. Primary data is generated from the selected Public Universities located in south-south Nigeria while analysis examined the association between product innovation and three dimensions of organizational resilience namely – situation awareness, keystone vulnerability and adaptive capacity. A total of three null hypotheses are tested using the Spearman rank order correlation. The results showed a significant association between product innovation and organizational resilience. Based on the foregoing findings, it was revealed that product innovation significantly influenced the awareness, vulnerability and adaptive capacity of the institutions and thus it was therefore recommended that for organizations to remain resilient, the adoption and implementation of innovation through products and services was a primary requirement.

Keywords: Product innovation, organizational resilience, keystone vulnerability, situation awareness, adaptive capacity.