Impact of Motivation and Supervisory Support to Enhancing the Innovation Capability of Dairy Farms in Pakistan.

This study investigates the impact of motivation and supervisor support on innovation capability with a mediating effect of knowledge sharing. Furthermore, the primary purpose of this study was how to enhance the innovation capability in dairy farms for the country growth. The data were collected from managers/owners of the dairy farms (n=254 questionnaires) by using the simple random sampling technique. This study was performed the SmartPLS 3 to analyze relationship between the exogenous and endogenous variables. The results revealed that motivation and supervisor support have a significant positive impact on innovation capability (P=0.028). On the other hand, motivation and supervisor support have positively influenced on the knowledge sharing (P=0.021). Furthermore, empirically test confirmed that the knowledge sharing partially mediates the relationship between motivation and supervisor support with the innovation capability. In conclusion, it is recommended that dairy farm managers/owners should focus on motivation and supervisor support to enhance the value of the innovation capability for rapid growth and development of dairy sector in the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]