TY - JOUR ID - 167743 TI - Investigating the Impact of Business Strategies on Innovative Performance (Case Study; Ministry of Defense Companies) JO - Journal of Improvement Management JA - JMI LA - en SN - 2251-8991 AU - saadat, Amirhosein AU - Mahmoodzadeh, Ebrahim AU - Bushehri, Alireza AU - Hosnavi, Reza AD - Malek Ashtar University Ph.D. student of industrial management AD - Associate Professor, Malek Ashtar University, Tehran, Iran AD - Associate Professor, Department of Management, Faculty of Management and Industries, Malek Ashtar University of Technology, Tehran, Iran AD - Associate Professor, Department of Management, Faculty of Management and Industries, Malek Ashtar University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. Y1 - 2023 PY - 2023 VL - 17 IS - 1 SP - 34 EP - 61 KW - strategy KW - flexibility KW - Predictability KW - Innovation DO - 10.22034/jmi.2023.329020.2741 N2 - In today's world, innovation is a very important issue for all industries, including the defense industry, because innovations are needed to support defense power. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the impact of business strategies on innovative performance in order to achieve effective performance in companies under the defense industry. The present research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-survey in terms of research method. The statistical population of this study includes middle managers and top managers of 82 companies under the Ministry of Defense who were selected by simple random sampling for the research sample. The main data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire and its reliability was obtained by calculating Cronbach's alpha formula equal to 0.87. In order to analyze the obtained data, structural equation modeling using partial least squares method was used by SMARTPLS statistical software version 2. The results indicate that there is a significant relationship between business strategy variables and innovative performance and the variables of predictability, control and flexibility of business strategies are effective in promoting innovative performance. Also, the fit indicators of the model indicate that the proposed model has a suitable fit. UR - https://www.behboodmodiriat.ir/article_167743.html L1 - https://www.behboodmodiriat.ir/article_167743_00ab97928acf744037494889ce9cff9e.pdf ER -