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Table I

Improvement capability definitions

Definition	Author	Sector	Perspective
The ability to incrementally increase (manufacturing) performance using existing resources	Swink and Hegarty (1998)	Manufacturing	Process view
Improvement capability consists of organisational wide processes of focused and sustained incremental innovation	Bessant and Francis (1999)	Manufacturing	Process view
Resources and processes, supporting both the generation and the diffusion of appropriate innovations across the organisation	Adler et al. (2003)	Healthcare	Process view
It refers to the strength or proficiency of a bundle of interrelated organisational routines for incrementally improving existing products/processes	Peng et al. (2008)	Manufacturing	Process view
The ability to consistently improve current processes and learn new ones	Anand et al. (2009)	Cross-sector	Process view
The people that have the confidence, knowledge and skills to lead change	Bevan (2010)	Healthcare	Actor driven
Improvement capability is knowledgeable and skilled human resources able to lead the design of improvement initiatives, to achieve measurable results, execute (i.e. develop, test, measure and implement changes) the improvement efforts, and sustain the results	Kaminski et al. (2014)	Healthcare	Actor driven
An organisational strategy to implement and spread quality improvement programmes across their organisation	Babich et al. (2016)	Healthcare	Process view

Definition	Author	Sector	Perspective
The ability to incrementally increase (manufacturing) performance using existing resources	Swink and Hegarty (1998)	Manufacturing	Process view
Improvement capability consists of organisational wide processes of focused and sustained incremental innovation	Bessant and Francis (1999)	Manufacturing	Process view
Resources and processes, supporting both the generation and the diffusion of appropriate innovations across the organisation	Adler et al. (2003)	Healthcare	Process view
It refers to the strength or proficiency of a bundle of interrelated organisational routines for incrementally improving existing products/processes	Peng et al. (2008)	Manufacturing	Process view
The ability to consistently improve current processes and learn new ones	Anand et al. (2009)	Cross-sector	Process view
The people that have the confidence, knowledge and skills to lead change	Bevan (2010)	Healthcare	Actor driven
Improvement capability is knowledgeable and skilled human resources able to lead the design of improvement initiatives, to achieve measurable results, execute (i.e. develop, test, measure and implement changes) the improvement efforts, and sustain the results	Kaminski et al. (2014)	Healthcare	Actor driven
An organisational strategy to implement and spread quality improvement programmes across their organisation	Babich et al. (2016)	Healthcare	Process view