Organizational Innovation in the Military Context

Influential Paradigms and Research Gaps in Advancing the Defense Sector

Abstract

Innovation in the defense sector is driven by currents of thought that tend to favor its practical applicability over its theoretical foundation, which influences the scarcity of in-depth reviews on the subject. Thus, the central purpose of this article is to map the current state of research in military innovation, identifying gaps in the national context and prominent international paradigms. The methodology adopted was an integrative literature review in the main databases on the subject, with an exploratory and descriptive character. The results obtained offer an overview of the predominant currents of thought and propose a research agenda focused on the main gap identified, namely, organizational innovation in the military context. The main theoretical contribution is to highlight organizational innovation and its operationalization as the main barriers to be studied and overcome. In the practical field, ways of implementing it through sectors dedicated to innovation are proposed.