Increasing Innovation Performance through Inter Organizational Collaboration in Digital Era

Abstract

This study aims to determine the role of intra-organizational knowledge sharing, inter-organizational collaboration, and digital platform capabilities to increase innovation performance. Intra-organizational knowledge sharing is considered as an important step for knowledge management in an organization. This research is also based on the role of collaboration between organizations which is considered important for interaction between organizations and which is important for information to create innovation. The ability of digital platforms in today's era is able to encourage increased innovation performance. The respondents used in the study were 105 fashion SMEs owners in the city of Semarang. The data analysis technique used is Smart PLS type 3.3. The results of this study indicate that intra-organizational knowledge sharing and inter-organizational collaboration have a positive and significant influence. This research also shows that the capabilities of digital platforms are able to boost innovation performance. This study discusses the process of sharing knowledge and implementing collaboration between organizations, as well as the importance of encouraging digital platform capabilities in strengthening collaboration between organizations to improve innovation performance. SMEs can reach a tipping point where it becomes critical for their growth to apply more productive methods by encouraging the use of digital technology platforms into business operations will lead to better business decisions. The importance of the ability to use digital patterns in making the capabilities of this business digital platform conceptualized in organizations that have the ability to handle problems that exist in business. This means that the digital platform capability is able to become a moderating variable between collaboration between organizations and innovation performance.