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with suppliers and distributors was not affected by those factors as well, with p = .665 and p = .154 respectively.
The condition of preferring to do business their own way was not determined in statistically significant way by the level of trust among employees in their own department (p = .458) or among employees from different departments of respondents’ organisations (p = .545). The attitude of not sharing innovations with outside world was not determined in statistically significant way by the level of trust among employees in their own department (p = .885) as well. On the other hand, it was determined by the level of trust among employees from different departments of respondents’ organisations (p = .014), and this relationship was positive (b = .385), indicating that increase in the level of trust brings about increase in being closed to outside world in terms of sharing innovations. F-ration for this model was high enough to suggest that observed variances were not incidental.
In the meantime, neither number of employees in the organisation nor types of goods or services delivered affected in a statistically significant way the condition of being partly open in terms of innovations to other employees and departments (p = .822 and p = .356), readiness to share innovations with suppliers and distributors (p = .208 and p = .240), outside world (p = .108 and p = .171) as well as with the business sector and through the media (p = .311 and p = .426), readiness of doing the business the way the respondents prefer (p = .356 and p = .296).
No statistically significant effect was found also of the type of goods or services delivered by the respondents’ organisations on being totally open for new ideas and innovation from outside sources and constant implementation of new ideas and innovations developed internally (p = .817).
Table 18: Openness and readiness to share and implement new ideas and innovations
Openness and readiness to share and implement new ideas and
Totally Partly open
innovations, p-value
Number of .034 .822 employees
Type of goods .817 .356 delivered
.208 .311 . 356 .108 .240 .426 .296 .171
open for new ideas
to others in the organisation
We share innovations with suppliers
We share We We
innovation s through media
prefer don’t our way share
to do the innovati business ons
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