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Firms give importance to innovation activities in order to adapt themselves to changes in the environment, maintain their competitiveness and thrive themselves economically. These activities, as well as introducing new products and services, include organizational innovations (new business models, management techniques, organizational structures and so on.) which are developed and adopted to reduce costs, improve the quality and efficiency. In this study, we aimed to define factors which affect the firms to make organizational innovations, determine the relationships among them and the organizational innovation status of firms in different industries and sizes participated in Turkish Statistical Institute Innovation Survey 2012. Logistic regression analysis was used to reveal the degree of influence of contextual factors. Findings provided from the analysis revealed that total R&D expenses, market size, ratio of educated workers and market based and other information sources have significant effects on organizational innovation. We couldn’t find any significant effect of cooperation with universities and research organizations on organizational innovation in any of the tested models.

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