Breeding environments for product innovation virtual organizations

The objective of this article was to verify whether or not a virtual organization breeding environment could be structured for product innovation oriented virtual organizations. First stage, with qualitative approach and exploratory objective, consisted of adaption of a reference model for the modeling of virtual organizations breeding environment, from which a theoretical model was constructed, in order to verify the relations between the constructs Interorganizational Relations and Innovation with the modeling dimensions. The second stage, of quantitative approach and a descriptive objective, consisted of structuring the proposed framework based on the guidelines established in the theoretical model. Data were collected through a structured questionnaire, on a five-point Likert scale, adapted from Machado and Carvalho (2013). Results show theoretical consistency between dimensions of the ARCON breeding environment and the factors of the MIS innovation environment. In this way, it was possible to adapt a virtual organization breeding environment oriented to product innovation in four dimensions.