From Value Sensitive Design to values absorption – building an instrument to analyze organizational capabilities for value-sensitive innovation

Jilde Garst; Vincent Blok; Léon Jansen; Onno S.W.F. Omta

doi:10.1080/23299460.2022.2069994

From Value Sensitive Design to values absorption – building an instrument to analyze organizational capabilities for value-sensitive innovation

Jilde Garst^*, Vincent Blok, Léon Jansen, Onno S.W.F. Omta

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Previous Responsible Innovation (RI) research has provided valuable insights on the value conflicts inherent to societally desirable innovation. By observing the responses of firms to these conflicts, Value-sensitive Absorptive Capacity (VAC) captures the organizational capabilities to become sensitive to these value conflicts and thus, innovate more responsibly. In this article, we construct a survey instrument to assess VAC, based on previous work by CSR and RI scholars. The construct and concurrent validity of the instrument were tested in an empirical study, including 109 employees of 30 food manufacturing firms. The results from the survey were then compared with the conceptual VAC dimensions. With this comparison, we do not only contribute to the substantiation of the VAC construct, but we also show how inductive and deductive approaches can be combined to build theory regarding RI in a transdisciplinary manner.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	196-223
Number of pages	28
Journal	Journal of Responsible Innovation
Volume	9
Issue number	2
Early online date	2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/23299460.2022.2069994
Publication status	Published - 4 May 2022

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