European Journal of Innovation Management
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The role of founder reign in explaining family firms' R&D investment: evidence from China
Xi Zhong, Tiebo Song, Liuyang RenBased on the socioemotional wealth theory, this study aims to empirically investigate how founder reign, that is a founder serving as a cheif executive officer (CEO) or…
Managing the product innovations paradox: the individual and synergistic role of the firm inside-out and outside-in marketing capability
Shabahat Ali, Weiwei Wu, Sadaqat AliBuilding upon the firm market orientation theories, this study aims to examine the individual and synergistic effects of the firm inside-out and outside-in marketing…
The evolution of sustainable innovation: from the past to the future
Giovanna Afeltra, Sayed Alireza Alerasoul, Fernanda StrozziOver the last few decades, more emphasis has been placed on those innovations that can reconcile economic, social and environmental goals in order to achieve a…
Green market orientation, green innovation capability, green knowledge acquisition and green brand positioning as determinants of new product success
Prasad Siba Borah, Courage Simon Kofi Dogbe, Wisdom Wise Kwabla Pomegbe, Bylon Abeeku Bamfo, Lawrence Kwabena HornuvoThe purpose of this study is to assess if the mediating effect of green innovation capability (GIC) in the relationship between green market orientation (GMO) and new…
Revealing the importance of international and domestic cooperation by using artificial neural networks: case of European radical and incremental innovators
Viktor Prokop, Jan Stejskal, Beata Mikusova Merickova, Samuel Amponsah OdeiThe purpose of this study is to introduce innovative ideas into the treatment of the radical and incremental innovations and to fill the research gap by using: (1) methods…
Media multiplicity and collaborative innovation with suppliers: evidence from China
Ruihong Liu, Yuanqiong He, Xiu-Hao Ding, Jianhong LiBased on media choice theories and real option theory, this study aims to explore the role of communication media portfolio in achieving collaborative innovation with suppliers.
High-performance work systems, learning orientation and innovativeness: the antecedent role of environmental turbulence
Evrim Gemici, Cemal ZehirThe aim of this paper is to empirically examine whether environmental turbulence leads to the adoption of high-performance work systems (HPWS) and learning orientation…
The double-edged sword effect of social media usage on new product development performance: evidence from Chinese firms
Biao Sun, Yu LiuResearch on social media frequently analyze social media usage (SMU)'s positive consequences for organizations and individuals; however, recent innovation studies caution…
Cooperation for innovation: more is not necessarily merrier
Serdal Temel, Anne-Laure Mention, Alp Eren YurtsevenEmbracing a large set of innovation objectives and collaborating with diverse partners have been promoted as a means to improve innovation performance. However, empirical…
Your network is your net worth: political ties and innovation performance
Muhammad Farrukh, Ali Raza, Abdul WaheedBased on the social network theory, this study investigates the impact of political ties on innovation performance. Besides, this study also tests a mediation role of…
Alone but together: flow experience and its impact on creative output in LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®
Lukas Zenk, Dirk J. Primus, Stephan SonnenburgDo LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® (LSP) workshops result in improved experience of flow components as well as higher levels of creative output than traditional meetings (MEET)? This…
An integrative framework of innovative work behavior for employees in SMEs linking knowledge sharing, functional flexibility and psychological empowerment
Muhammad Yasir, Abdul Majid, Zahid Yousaf, Abdelmohsen A. Nassani, Mohamed HaffarThis study aims to propose a model based on knowledge sharing (KS) to explore that how functional flexibility (FF) and psychological empowerment (PE) plays a mediating…
Leadership for sustainability: fostering organizational learning to achieve radical innovations
Emilio Domínguez-Escrig, Francisco Fermín Mallén-BrochWhile concerns about the social and environmental impact that result from business activity continue to grow, a stream of research consolidates to understand the…
Neuroscience approach for management and entrepreneurship: a bibliometric analysis
Valentina Cucino, Mariacarmela Passarelli, Alberto Di Minin, Alfio CariolaThis study focuses on the role of individuals in the innovation management process, by concentrating on leaders and associated behaviors. Specifically, Entrepreneurial…
Understanding employees' innovative work behavior through interactionist perspective: the effects of working style, supportive noncontrolling supervision and job complexity
Basheer M. Al-GhazaliThis study extends the actor–context interactionist model of individual innovation from the traditional synergetic pattern to a complementary one. The complementary…
Value capture in open innovation markets: the role of patent rights for innovation appropriation
Marcus Holgersson, Ove GranstrandThe role of patents for appropriating (capturing) value from innovation investments has for decades been of major interest to both practitioners and academics in…
Fostering technological innovation through management and marketing innovation. The human and non-technological linkage
Edwin Alexander Henao-García, Raúl Armando Cardona MontoyaThis paper aims to analyse the relationships between management innovation, marketing innovation, technological innovation and the personnel involved in science…
The dimensional linkage between public service motivation and innovative behavior in public sector institutions; the mediating role of psychological empowerment
Muhammad Asim Rafique, Yumei Hou, Muhammad Adnan Zahid Chudhery, Nida Gull, Syed Jameel AhmedInnovations are imperative for organizational growth and sustainability. This study focuses on the employees' innovative behavior, a source of organizational innovations…
Innovative work behavior scale: development and validation of psychometric properties in higher education in the GCC countries
Alaa Eldin Abdel Hamid Ayoub, Soud Mohammad Almahamid, Luma F. Al SalahThe study aims to develop an innovative work behavior (IWB) scale for the faculty members and faculty leaders of universities in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries…
Change in factor endowment, technological innovation and export: evidence from China’s manufacturing sector
Abdul Rauf, Ying Ma, Abdul JalilWhile previous studies find innovation to be an essential driver of export growth, the existing literature has neglected the role of different dimensions of technological…
How does ambidextrous leadership promote innovation in project-based construction companies? Through mediating role of knowledge-sharing and moderating role of innovativeness
Syed Arslan Haider, Muhammad Zubair, Shehnaz Tehseen, Shahid Iqbal, Mariam SohailResearch on adopting leadership style like ambidextrous leadership to enhance employees' innovative work behavior (IWB) is in an initial stage. Moreover, employees need a…
Entrepreneurial crowdfunding backer motivations: a latent Dirichlet allocation approach
Jeremy St John, Karen St John, Bo HanThis study furthers one’s understanding of the motivations of the crowdfunding crowd by empirically examining critical factors that influence the crowd's decision to…
The impact of international interorganizational relationships on creativity: the local partner perspective in an emerging country
Yasmine Boughzala, Berangere Lauren SzostakThis paper aims to understand how international interorganizational relationships (IORs) impact the organizational creativity of a local partner in an emerging country…
Big data analytics in innovation processes: which forms of dynamic capabilities should be developed and how to embrace digitization?
Rosita Capurro, Raffaele Fiorentino, Stefano Garzella, Alessandro GiudiciThe purpose of this paper is to analyze, from a dynamic capabilities perspective, the role of big data analytics in supporting firms' innovation processes.
Customer participation in new product development: an Industry 4.0 perspective
Hafiz Muhammad Naeem, Eleonora Di MariaThe use of modern technologies of the fourth industrial revolution, commonly known as “Industry 4.0” (I4.0), is believed to have considerable potential for product…
The role of image expectations in linking organizational climate and innovative work behaviour
Adalgisa Battistelli, Carlo Odoardi, Nicola Cangialosi, Gennaro Di Napoli, Luciano PiccioneThis study aims to explore whether expected image outcomes (risk and gain) represent a mechanism through which perceived organizational climates, in the dimensions of…
What drives the growth of start-up firms? A tool for mapping the state-of-the-art of the empirical literature
Roberto Pugliese, Guido Bortoluzzi, Marco BalzanoThis study aims to enrich the current theoretical debate on the growth of start-up firms by extensively investigating the ongoing empirical studies in this research…
Birth mode of family firms, family entering time and R&D investment: evidence from China
Muhammad Zulfiqar, Shihua Chen, Muhammad Usman YousafOn the basis of behavioural agency theory and resource-based view, this study investigates the influence of family firm birth mode (i.e. indirect-established or…
Determinants of radical and incremental innovation: the influence of transformational leadership, knowledge sharing and knowledge-centered culture
Linnan Gui, Hui Lei, Phong Ba LeThe purpose of this study is to clarify the effects of transformational leadership (TL) on radical and incremental innovation through the mediating roles of knowledge…
The level matters: building capabilities for innovation and enterprise performance through customer involvement
Thomas Anning-DorsonThis paper aims to examine the quadratic relationship between customer involvement capability and performance, and innovation of small- and medium-scale service firms. The…
Relationship between subjective well-being, perceived organisational culture and individual propension to innovation
Christine Elena Bianchi, Gerson Tontini, Giancarlo GomesThis paper analyses the relationship between subjective well-being (SWB) and perceived organisational culture (POC) with the individual propensity to innovation (IPI).
Microfoundations of SME open innovation: the role of help, knowledge sharing and hiding
Darija Aleksić, Kaja Rangus, Alenka Slavec GomezelThe purpose of this research is to better understand the human aspects of open innovation in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by exploring how intrinsic and…
Effects of corporate reputation and social identity on innovative job performance
Anderson Betti Frare, Ilse Maria BeurenThis study analyzes the indirect effects of corporate reputation and social identity on innovative job performance, through organization engagement.
The power of balance: interplay effects of exploitative leadership style, work–family balance and family-friendly workplace practices on innovation implementation
Grazia Garlatti Costa, Darija Aleksić, Guido BortoluzziThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the inverted U-shaped relationship that exists between exploitative leadership styles and innovation implementation. In…
Knowledge base, technology gap and technology development speed in technological catch-up: innovation choice for China's knowledge-intensive enterprises (KIEs)
Zhengyi Zhang, Jun Jin, Ting Wen, Zan ChenWith the fierce competition in a knowledge economy, knowledge-intensive enterprises (KIEs) make technological progress in their catching-up processes through implementing…
Business model innovation canvas: a visual business model innovation model
Yuran Jin, Shoufeng Ji, Li Liu, Wei WangMore and more enterprises have realized the importance of business model innovation. However, the model tools for it are still scarce. There is a clear research gap in…
Organizational hybridity and mission drift in innovation partnerships
Signe Vikkelsø, Mikkel Stokholm Skaarup, Julie SommerlundInnovation partnerships are a popular model for organizing publicly supported innovation projects. However, partners often have different timelines and planning horizons…
Effects of innovation modes and network partners on innovation performance of young firms
Haiyan LiWhile the importance of “science and technology-based innovation” (STI) and “doing, using and interacting-based innovation” (DUI) innovation modes in firm innovation…
Innovation capabilities for sustainability: a comparison between Green and Gray companies
Cristina M. Ostermann, Leandro da Silva Nascimento, Cynthia Mikaela Chemello Faviero Lopes, Guilherme Freitas Camboim, Paulo Antônio ZawislakThis paper aims to identify and compare the arrangements of innovation capabilities and their correlation with the socio-environmental responsibility of two groups…
The mediating role of financial performance in the relationship between green innovation and firm value: evidence from ASEAN countries
Nur Asni, Dian AgustiaThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the mediating role of financial performance (FP) in modelling the relationship between green innovation (GI) and firm value…
Psychological empowerment and individual performance: the mediating effect of intrapreneurial behaviour
Mahmoud Ahmad Mahmoud, Shuhymee Ahmad, Donny Abdul Latief PoespowidjojoThe purpose of this study is to extend the existing literature on the relationship between psychological empowerment and individual performance (IP) through the mediating…
Does venture capital help to promote open innovation practice? Evidence from China
Rui Yi, Haojun Wang, Bei Lyu, Qinghua XiaThe study aims to empirically study the effect of venture capital on open innovation of China's enterprises.
How abusive supervision climate affects team creativity: the contingent role of task interdependence
Chenghao Men, Lei Yue, Huo Weiwei, Bing Liu, Guangwei LiDrawing on theories of social information processing and social identity, the authors explore how abusive supervision climate affects team creativity in a Chinese cultural…
Customer involvement in the new process innovation: antecedents, mediation and performance
Yuan-Chieh Chang, Wen-Hong Chiu, Jian-Hang Wang, Min-Jun TengThe paper proposes customer involvement can be considered an organization-level construct of knowledge creation in the new process development. Specifically, the paper…
Innovation performance in digital economy: does digital platform capability, improvisation capability and organizational readiness really matter?
Wen Jun, Muhammad Hamid Nasir, Zahid Yousaf, Amira Khattak, Muhammad Yasir, Asad Javed, Syed Hamad ShiraziThe purpose of this study is to investigate how digital platforms capability, improvisational capability and organizational readiness directly affect innovation…
Combined influence of exchange quality and organizational identity on the relationship between authoritarian leadership and employee innovation: evidence from China
ShanLiang Zhang, Yongwei Wang, Jinhua Ye, Yiru LiThe purpose of this paper is to explore the combined influence of exchange quality (i.e. leader-member exchange or LMX, and coworker exchange or CWX) and organizational…
The evolution of the pathways of innovation strategies in the automotive industry. The case of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles
Elena Candelo, Ciro Troise, Diego Matricano, Amedeo Lepore, Mario SorrentinoFundamental management innovations have been ideated and developed in the automotive industry. Over the years, carmakers have radically modified their innovation…
High-performance work practices do much, but H.E.R.O does more: an empirical investigation of employees' innovative behavior from the hospitality industry
Muhammad Farrukh, Nabeel Yunus Ansari, Ali Raza, Fanchen Meng, Hong WangDrawing motivation from Lawrence Bossidy's quote and leaning on the conservation of resources (COR) theory, in this study, the authors aim to investigate the role of…
The effects of information technology capability and knowledge base on digital innovation: the moderating role of institutional environments
Shaobo Wei, Dabao Xu, Hua LiuBased on the knowledge-based view, this study investigates how firms' information technology (IT) capability broadens and deepens their knowledge base, which consequently…
How do large corporations manage disruption? The perspective of manufacturing executives in Finland
Arto Wallin, Matti Pihlajamaa, Nando MalmelinThe article explores what forms of disruption are prioritized by top executives of large manufacturing companies in Finland and what strategies they consider appropriate…
Differences between end user innovators and embedded user innovators in diffusion channel selection: the moderating role of technological advances
Xin YuIn heterogeneously segmented markets, collaborating with product users in product innovation is important for business success. End user innovators and embedded user…
Can TMT vertical pay disparity promote firm innovation performance? The moderating role of CEO power and board characteristics
Xi Zhong, He Wan, Ge RenBased on the tournament theory and the principal agent theory, this study aims to empirically investigate how top management team (TMT) vertical pay disparity (the pay…
The adoption of inbound open innovation practices in developing countries: empirical evidence from the manufacturing sector
Amila Pilav-Velic, Hatidza JahicLiterature suggests that open innovation approach of large firms shows different characteristics with small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), so this paper tends to…
Intergenerational hybrid products in periods of discontinuous change
Wilian Gatti Junior, Alceu Salles Camargo Junior, Paul VarellaThis study examines the role of hybrid products employed in companies' innovation strategy within three American industrial sectors: tires, typewriters and photography cameras.
Adaptive marketing capability and product innovations: the role of market ambidexterity and transformational leadership (evidence from Pakistani manufacturing industry)
Shabahat Ali, Weiwei Wu, Sadaqat AliThis study aims to offer and validate an integrated marketing capability-product innovations framework. Particularly, it aims to examine the role of adaptive marketing…
The nexus between dynamic capabilities and competitive firm performance: the mediating role of open innovation
Asta Pundziene, Shahrokh Nikou, Harry BouwmanPrior research has reported the indirect implications of firm's dynamic capabilities on their competitive firm performance. Our attention now turns to open innovation…
Adoption of green innovations by SMEs: an investigation about the influence of stakeholders
Antonio Thomas, Giuseppe Scandurra, Alfonso CarforaPursuing sustainable development has become a necessity for all types of businesses, owing to the increasing sensitivity of stakeholders towards pollution and…
Customer cocreation experience in online communities: antecedents and outcomes
Zeynep Didem Nohutlu, Basil G. Englis, Aard J. Groen, Efthymios ConstantinidesThe purpose of this article is to obtain an in-depth insight into the nature and impact of customers´ cocreation experiences in online communities and the effects of…
The functioning of dynamic capabilities: explaining the role of organizational innovativeness and culture
Somonnoy Ghosh, Bhupen K. SrivastavaUsing the knowledge-based view of the firm, dynamic capability literature and known dimensions of organizational innovativeness (OI), this article develops two testable…
Business model innovation and digital transformation in global management consulting firms
Ernesto Tavoletti, Niloofar Kazemargi, Corrado Cerruti, Cecilia Grieco, Andrea AppolloniThis paper contains an exploratory analysis of the business model innovations (BMIs) that management consulting firms (MCFs) undertake to remain competitive during digital…
The impact of digitalisation vision and information technology on organisations' innovation
Farzana Parveen Tajudeen, Devika Nadarajah, Noor Ismawati Jaafar, Ainin SulaimanBased on the dynamic capability theory (DCT), this study examines the role of digitalisation vision and the impact of key information technology (IT) strategies, such as…
Believe they can succeed, and they will: intrapreneurial behavior and leadership
Muhammad Farrukh, Fanchen Meng, Ali RazaA leader's job is not to put greatness into people, but rather to recognize that it already exists and to create an environment where that greatness can emerge and grow…
Big data analytics capabilities and organizational performance: the mediating effect of dual innovations
Xiaofeng Su, Weipeng Zeng, Manhua Zheng, Xiaoli Jiang, Wenhe Lin, Anxin XuFollowing the rapid expansion of data volume, velocity and variety, techniques and technologies, big data analytics have achieved substantial development and a surge of…
Do different genders' knowledge sharing behaviors drive different innovative behavior? The moderating effect of social capital
Seyedeh Zahra Fatemi, Samaneh Sadeghian, S. Fatemeh Ghasempour Ganji, Lester W. JohnsonConsidering the importance of innovation in organizations and the formation of innovative behaviors (IBs) in the life of the organization, the authors study the effect of…
TMT leadership ambidexterity: balancing exploration and exploitation behaviors for innovation
Eleanor T. Lawrence, Leslie Tworoger, Cynthia P. Ruppel, Yuliya YurovaThe purpose of this study is to explore balanced leadership behaviors, which exhibit ambidexterity, in a top management team (TMT) recognized for innovation and…
The moderating effects of entrepreneurial orientation on technological opportunism and innovation performance
Boris Urban, Mandla MaphumuloResearch shows how with the evolution of technologies, technological opportunism enables firms to effectively identify and exploit innovations and opportunities through…
Creative leadership, innovation climate and innovation behaviour: the moderating role of knowledge sharing in management
Pinghao Ye, Liqiong Liu, Joseph TanInnovation, in most enterprises, originates from employees. In this study, how organizational climate, creative leadership ability and emotional reaction to imposed change…
Effects of open innovation breadth on industrial innovation input–output relationships
Alejandro Germán Frank, Guilherme Brittes Benitez, Mateus Ferreira Lima, João Augusto Bonzanini BernardiOpen innovation breadth (OIB) considers the diversity of external collaboration partners for innovation. The authors investigate the moderating effect of OIB on the…
The impact of board gender diversity and foreign institutional investors on firm innovation: evidence from China
Qurat Ul Ain, Xianghui Yuan, Hafiz Mustansar JavaidThis study investigates the impact of board gender diversity and foreign ownership on innovation in Chinese firms.
Exchange of knowledge in protected environments. The case of university business incubators
María Redondo, Carmen Camarero, Peter van der SijdeUniversity business incubators (UBIs) are born as tools of the academic world to market research results, for the transfer of technology and to promote entrepreneurial…
Platforms' partner networks: the missing link in crowdfunding performance
Stefano Cosma, Alessandro Giovanni Grasso, Francesco Pattarin, Alessia PedrazzoliA network of partners helps and assists a crowdfunding platform (CFP) in scouting, assessing and selecting projects. This cooperation increases the number of successful…
The evolution of meanings: an empirical analysis of the social media industry
Silvia Sanasi, Daniel Trabucchi, Elena Pellizzoni, Tommaso BuganzaInnovation dynamics have been the object of study of several researchers, focusing in particular on technological innovation and the emergence of a dominant design…
The impact of innovation on agribusiness competitiveness: the mediating role of technology transfer and productivity
Patient Rambe, Peter KhaolaThe pre-eminence of innovation and technological transfer in promoting agricultural productivity and competitiveness in developing countries is widely acknowledged…
Corporate tensions and drivers of sustainable innovation: a qualitative study in the food industry
Sergio Román, Stefan Bodenstab, Luis Manuel Sánchez-SilesCompanies are increasingly aware of the importance of delivering economic, social and environmental benefits through sustainable innovation. This study aims to examine how…
How servant leadership triggers innovative work behavior: exploring the sequential mediating role of psychological empowerment and job crafting
Muhammad Mumtaz Khan, Muhammad Shujaat Mubarik, Tahir Islam, Asif Rehman, Syed Saad Ahmed, Essa Khan, Farhan SohailThe study aims to examine the mediating role of psychological empowerment and job crafting between servant leadership and innovative work behavior.
Understanding how social responsibility drives social innovation: characteristics of radically innovative projects
Duygu Turker, Y. Serkan OzmenThis study aims to analyze how corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives address sustainability challenges by focusing on the congruence between process and…
The mediation effects of team information processing on new product development success: revising the role of innovation orientation and team unlearning
Adriana Andrea Amaya, Wann-Yih Wu, Ying-Kai LiaoAlthough previous studies noted the importance for organizations in establishing an innovation strategy, few have examined innovation orientation as a multidimensional…
The early growth of start-ups: innovation matters. Evidence from Italy
Raffaele Fiorentino, Sergio Longobardi, Alessandro ScalettiDespite the relevance of innovation in entrepreneurship literature, empirical research on the innovation-performance relationship in start-ups is underdeveloped and shows…
Performance implications of combining creative and imitative innovation strategies
Changho Moon, Moses AcquaahThe purpose of this study is to investigate the performance effects of pure innovation strategies (creative and imitative) versus the combination of the two innovation…
Individual knowledge creation ability: dispositional antecedents and relationship to innovative performance
Nosheen Sarwat, Muhammad AbbasThe purpose of this study was to understand the effects of creative self-efficacy and affective personal commitment on individuals' knowledge creation and innovative work…
Impact of intangible resources (dominant logic) on SMEs innovation performance, the mediating role of dynamic managerial capabilities: evidence from China
Kashif Ullah Khan, Fouzia Atlas, Usman Ghani, Sadia Akhtar, Farhan KhanThe purpose of this paper is to examine the important role of intangible resources under resource based view (RBV) such as dominant logic (information filter and…
Geographical aggregation and incubator graduation performance: the role of incubator assistance
Bojun Hou, Jin Hong, Yang YangThis paper attempts to use agglomeration theory and ecological theory to explore how geographic agglomeration affects the graduation performance of incubator community…
Attitude vs involvement: a systematic literature review at the intersection between engagement and innovation
Daniel Trabucchi, Paola Bellis, Diletta Di Marco, Tommaso Buganza, Roberto VergantiIn a world where innovation became a “buzzword” and everyone within companies is required to foster innovation, the engagement of people toward innovation is fundamental…
Impact of knowledge search on product and process innovation: mediating role of absorptive capacity and moderating role of IT capability
Hui Gao, Xiu-Hao Ding, Suming WuMore enterprises adopt open innovation by breaking technological or organizational boundaries to seek internal and external knowledge when they face a fiercely competitive…
Bricolage as capability for frugal innovation in emerging markets in times of crisis
Leandro Lima Santos, Felipe Mendes Borini, Moacir de Miranda Oliveira, Dennys Eduardo Rossetto, Roberto Carlos BernardesThis research aims to answer the following question: Could bricolage become a capability for companies in emerging markets to develop frugal innovations in times of…
Identifying contradictions in an incumbent–startup ecosystem–an activity theory approach
Stratos Baloutsos, Angeliki Karagiannaki, Katerina PramatariDiscussion regarding systems that promote innovation, aptly named innovation ecosystems, has been intensifying both in academia and business. The purpose of this paper is…
CSR and appropriation potential of firm innovative knowledge
Xiaohong Mei, Yang Ge, Jiashun Huang, Yu ChenThe purpose of this paper is to study the moderating role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the knowledge asset–firm financial performance relationship.
How to unleash innovative work behavior of SMEs' workers through knowledge sharing? Accessing functional flexibility as a mediator
Muhammad Khalid Anser, Zahid Yousaf, Muhammad Yasir, Muhammad Sharif, Muhammad Hamid Nasir, Muhammad Imran Rasheed, Junaid Waheed, Hadi Hussain, Abdul MajidThis study aims to investigate the direct impact of knowledge sharing (KS) and functional flexibility (FF) on innovative work behavior (IWB) of small medium enterprises…
Implementing open innovation for radical innovation: three successful cases in the SAES group
Andrea Urbinati, Raffaella Manzini, Davide Piacentini, Corrado CarrettiRadical innovation is still a debated concept in the field of innovation management. Very often, firms cannot pursue radical innovation due to the lack of access to…
Diversity, climate and innovative work behavior
Sabina Bogilović, Guido Bortoluzzi, Matej Černe, Khatereh Ghasemzadeh, Jana ŽnidaršičThe purpose of this paper is to extend current discussion on the drivers of innovative work behavior (IWB) by exploring how individual perceived diversities (visible…
Do financial constraints moderate the relationship between innovation subsidies and firms' R&D investment?
Enrique Acebo, José-Ángel Miguel-Dávila, Mariano NietoThe purpose of this paper is to analyse whether the effect of innovation subsidies on firms' R&D investment varies depending on whether the firm is suffering from…
Sharing knowledge processes for promoting innovation in small businesses
Ronen Harel, Dafna Schwartz, Dan KaufmannThe purpose of this study is to examine the contribution of sharing knowledge processes aimed at promoting innovation in small businesses.
Financial leverage and corporate innovation in Chinese public-listed firms
Najaf Iqbal, Ju Feng Xu, Zeeshan Fareed, Guangcai Wan, Lina MaThis study attempts to document the impact of financial leverage on corporate innovation in the Chinese nonfinancial public firms listed on Shenzhen and Shanghai stock exchanges.
Organizational identification perceptions and millennials' creativity: testing the mediating role of work engagement and the moderating role of work values
Li Hui, Wang Qun, Sajjad Nazir, Zhao Mengyu, Muhammad Ali Asadullah, Sahar KhadimMillennial-generation employees need to stimulate their creativity to produce innovative ideas, services and products for organizations to flourish and succeed. The main…
Knowledge workers' existential affirmation and innovativeness: a Kierkegaardian redescription of Drucker
M. Minsuk Shin, Jiwon Lee, June-ho ChungAlthough existing studies demonstrate positive relationships between ethical cultures and innovativeness, their explanations of why an ethical culture leads to…
External technology acquisition, exploitation and process innovation performance in emerging market small and medium sized enterprises: the moderating role of organizational slack
Thammanoon Charmjuree, Yuosre F. Badir, Umar SafdarThis study is among the very few to examine the firm's simultaneous use of both dimensions of open innovation and its influences on the firm's process innovation…
Leading the innovation: role of trust and job crafting as sequential mediators relating servant leadership and innovative work behavior
Muhammad Mumtaz Khan, Muhammad Shujaat Mubarik, Tahir IslamThe purpose of the study is to ascertain the role of servant leadership in causing innovative work behavior. The study also examines the mediating role of job crafting and…
Effects of technology lock-in on enterprise innovation performance
Li Zhao, Jianxin Sun, Ling Zhang, Pengfei He, Qiulu YiThis study explores the effects of different types of technology lock-in on enterprise innovation performance. On this basis, the authors aim to provide technological…
Green innovation: a multidomain systematic review
Stephen Oduro, Guglielmo Maccario, Alessandro De NiscoThis paper examines the status and evolution of green innovation research from 1948 to 2018.
Trust, knowledge sharing, and innovative work behavior: empirical evidence from Poland
Roman KmieciakThe purpose of this paper is to assess the effects of two types of trust (vertical and horizontal trust) on knowledge sharing (knowledge donating and knowledge collecting…
Entrepreneurial leadership and employee innovative behavior: an examination through multiple theoretical lenses
Amjad Iqbal, Tahira Nazir, Muhammad Shakil AhmadThe purpose of this research is to determine the relationship between entrepreneurial leadership and employee innovative behavior and examine mediating role of affective…
Geographic search, potential absorptive capacity and radical innovation performance: the moderating role of collaborative network
Feng Zhang, Lei Zhu, Chongchong LyuA firm's geographic boundaries represent an important demarcation line when searching for new knowledge. Prior research on geographic search has generated conflicting…
Market uncertainty, innovation of firms in alliance and alliance partner characteristics
JungYun Han, Ribuga KangWhile prior alliance literature has focused on how firms exploit alliance strategies to enhance performance and innovation, little is known about whether market…
Transnational knowledge transfer or indigenous knowledge transfer: which channel has more benefits for China's high-tech enterprises?
Ping Deng, Hao LuThis paper compares four external technology acquisition channels' (foreign technology transfer, exporting, inter-industry R&D spillover and domestic technology transfer…
Early entrants attract better customer evaluations: evidence from the digital camera industry
Johanna Kirjavainen, Saku J. Mäkinen, Ozgur DedehayirIn addition to pioneering, empirical work on entry order increasingly addresses fast followers and laggards and the potential advantages they are able to capture. There is…
How does entrepreneurial leadership affect innovation work behavior? The mediating role of individual and team creativity self-efficacy
Afsaneh Bagheri, Morteza Akbari, Armin ArtangThis paper explored the ways through which entrepreneurial leadership practices of chief executive officers (CEOs) enhance their employees' innovation at workplace in…
Technological innovation research in the last six decades: a bibliometric analysis
Morteza Akbari, Maryam Khodayari, Armin Khaleghi, Mozhgan Danesh, Hamid PadashThis study aims to explore the evolutionary trajectories of technological innovation using 1,361 documents to determine the most cited documents, influential authors…
Do autonomous and trusting hospital employees generate, promote and implement more ideas? The role of distributed leadership agency
Thomas Faurholt Jønsson, Christine Maria Unterrainer, Helena Grøn KählerEmployees constitute an important source of innovation in organizations. Innovation management strategies often include attempts of stimulating employees' innovative…
The role of innovation capability in the relationship between marketing capability and new product development: evidence from the telecommunication sector
Abdulqadir Rahomee Ahmed AljanabiThe purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between marketing and innovation capabilities and new product development (NPD), including the potential…
Entrepreneurial orientation, new product development and firm performance: the moderating role of legitimacy in Chinese high-tech SMEs
Yunqing Liu, Min WangThis paper examines the relationship of entrepreneurial orientation (EO), new product development (NPD), legitimacy (political and market) and firm performance (FP). The…
Innovativeness and performance: the joint effect of relational trust and combinative capability
Gloria Parra-Requena, María José Ruiz-Ortega, Pedro M. Garcia-Villaverde, F. Javier RamírezThis work aims to develop a configurational model to explain how relational trust and combinative capability can jointly improve the relationship between innovativeness…
Investigating employee creativity through employee polychronicity and employee resilience: a glimpse of nurses working in the health-care sector
Muhammad Khalid Anser, Zahid Yousaf, Muhammad Sharif, Wang Yijun, Abdul Majid, Muhammad YasirThis study aims to investigate the relationship between employee polychronicity and employee creativity. This study also explores the mediating role of employee resilience…
Embedding entrepreneurship in doctoral students: the impact of a T-shaped educational approach
Pierluigi Rippa, Giovanni Landi, Silvia Cosimato, Lorenzo Turriziani, Mohamed GheithOver the last decades, the importance of entrepreneurial education (EE) for the personal development of young generations has gained momentum among policymakers…
Understanding social innovation leadership in universities: empirical insights from a group concept mapping study
Peter Milley, Barbara SzijartoRecently, social innovation (SI) has captured the imagination of a range of actors globally, including in the higher education (HE) sector. This study explores the…
Industry and country effects on innovation effort
Mariano Nieto, Daniel Alonso-Martínez, Nuria González-ÁlvarezThe purpose of the paper is to study the determinants of firms' innovation effort using the main approaches in strategic management. The authors specifically analyze the…
How the egocentric alliance network impacts firm ambidextrous innovation: a three-way interaction model
Guiyang Zhang, Chaoying TangThe purpose of the paper is to advance a framework that can analyze the impact of the egocentric alliance network on firm ambidextrous innovation holistically. On this…
Role of managerial perception of competitive pressures in firms' product innovation success
Pankaj Kumar Medhi, Ashita AllamrajuThis study explores the link between the level of importance managers assign to competitive pressures from domestic competition, foreign competition and customers as…
How does ethical leadership boost follower's creativity? Examining mediation and moderation mechanisms
Sajjad Nazir, Amina Shafi, Muhammad Ali Asadullah, Wang Qun, Sahar KhadimThe main purpose of this study is to investigate the mechanism through voice behavior mediates the relationship between ethical leadership and employees' creativity. This…
Data-driven innovation processes within federated networks
Aya Rizk, Anna Ståhlbröst, Ahmed ElragalWithin digital innovation, there are two significant consequences of the pervasiveness of digital technology: (1) the increasing connectivity is enabling a wider reach and…
Innovation and internationalization in family SMEs: analyzing the role of family involvement
Mikel Alayo, Txomin Iturralde, Amaia MasedaThe aim of this paper is to provide new evidence on the ability of family small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to develop ambidextrous innovations and their…
Impact of technological uncertainty and technological complexity on organizational information processing capability: the moderating role of work experience
Sebastian JilkeTechnological uncertainty and technological complexity are key characteristics of new product development (NPD) projects that impose significant information processing…
Moving drug discoveries beyond the valley of death: the role of innovation ecosystems
Francesco Calza, Marco Ferretti, Eva Panetti, Adele ParmentolaThe paper aims to explore the nature of initiatives and strategies of inter-organizational cooperation to cross the valley of death in the biopharma industry.
Enhancing design thinking approaches to innovation through gamification
Rui Patrício, Antonio Carrizo Moreira, Francesco ZurloThe paper aims to explore the relationship between gamification and design thinking approach to innovation in the context of the early stage of innovation process (ESoIP)…
Stakeholder management in open innovation projects: a multiple case study analysis
Andrea Urbinati, Paolo Landoni, Francesca Cococcioni, Ludovico De GiudiciIn recent years, companies have started to open up their Research and Development (R&D) and their innovation activities to external partners. They aim to access new…
Converging and diverging business model innovation in regional intersectoral cooperation–exploring wine industry 4.0
Marc Dressler, Ivan PaunovicIndustry 4.0, the integrated digital process world in production, is an under researched area. Especially for the wine industry, 4.0 theoretical base up to date is weak…
Navigating the tensions in environmental innovation: a paradox perspective
Nadia Di Paola, Tiziana Russo SpenaThis study aims to investigate the hybrid nature and scope of environmental innovation (EI) by assuming a paradox perspective and developing it empirically. Specifically…
How can open innovation contribute to circular economy adoption? Insights from a literature review
Gessica Mina Kim Jesus, Daniel JugendDespite the potential of open innovation (OI) to reduce barriers to the adoption of the circular economy (CE), little is known about the integration of the two themes and…
Landlords with no lands: a systematic literature review on hybrid multi-sided platforms and platform thinking
Daniel Trabucchi, Tommaso BuganzaThis article is based on a systematic and comprehensive review of the literature on two-sided platforms, the business structure based on the concept of matchmaking groups…
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