Validez inicial de un instrumento para medir innovación organizacional en empresas maquiladoras

The main objective of this study was to validate a questionnaire to measure organizational innovation in assembly companies (maquiladoras). Using a quantitative methodology with a non-experimental design, a measurement instrument was proposed with three types of organizational innovation: management innovation, commercial innovation, and process innovation. All of which were measured according to 17 indicators. The questionnaire was administered to a sample of 139 employees occupying administrative and managerial positions in 12 manufacturing companies located in Ciudad Obregón, Mexico. The results showed favorable values for Aiken's V, exploratory factor analysis, average extracted variance, and the Fornell-Larcker criterion. It is concluded that the indicators of the proposed questionnaire comply with content, construct, convergent, and discriminant validities, which denote an adequate initial validity to measure organizational innovation in manufacturing companies.