European Journal of Innovation Management
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Towards financing the entrepreneurial SMEs: exploring the innovation drivers of successful crowdfunding via a multi-layer decision-making approach
Hannan Amoozad Mahdiraji, Seyed Hossein Razavi Hajiagha, Vahid Jafari-Sadeghi, Donatella Busso, Alain DevalleIn this research, extracting the innovation drivers of successful crowdfunding from the literature review, screening them for the entrepreneurial small- and medium-sized…
Deep and organizational learning as innovation catalyzer in digital business ecosystems – a scenario analysis on the tourism destination Berlin
Arne Schuhbert, Hannes Thees, Harald PechlanerThe below-average innovative capacity of the tourism sector raises the question on the potentials of digital business ecosystems (DBEs) to overcome these shortages at a…
Where are your ideas going? Idea adoption in online user innovation communities
Min Qin, Shuqin Li, Fangtong Cai, Wei Zhu, Shanshan QiuWith the proliferation of ideas submitted by users in firm-built online user innovation communities, community managers are faced with the problem of user idea overload…
Adoption of cryptocurrencies for remittances in the UAE: the mediation effect of consumer innovation
Devid Jegerson, Mehmood Khan, Charilaos MertzanisThis study investigated the internal factors that influence the adoption of cryptocurrencies for remittance transactions in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) by examining the…
Mapping knowledge assets categories for successful crowdfunding strategies
Antonio Lerro, Francesco Santarsiero, Giovanni Schiuma, Ilona BartusevicieneCrowdfunding models recently emerged as relevant enhancing systems aimed at fostering innovation and entrepreneurial dynamics. Accordingly, great attention has been paid…
The importance of specific open innovation practices for radical innovations within companies of different sizes
Zorica AničićThe prevailing view in the existing literature is that open innovations (OI) increase the innovative performance of enterprises. The author examines whether the same OI…
Sustainable leadership and heterogeneous knowledge sharing: the model for frugal innovation
Qaisar Iqbal, Katarzyna Piwowar-SulejConsidering the vital role of resource-constraint innovation in developing countries, the aim of the study is to examine the mechanism of internal and external…
Visiting museums via augmented reality: an experience fast-tracking the digital transformation of the tourism industry
Sabine Khalil, Andreas Kallmuenzer, Sascha KrausAugmented reality (AR) is an emergent technology that has been impacting and beneficial to various industries. This is especially the case in the tourism industry since…
The impact of innovation orientation and knowledge management on business services performance moderated by technological readiness
Krzysztof Borodako, Jadwiga Berbeka, Michał Rudnicki, Mariusz ŁapczyńskiThis work aims to determine how innovation orientation (IO), built from six dimensions (strategic, structural-process, human resources, technological, organizational…
Servant and authentic leadership as drivers of innovative work behaviour: the moderating role of creative self-efficacy
Hamid Mahmood Gelaidan, Abdullah Kaid Al-Swidi, Mohammed A. Al-HakimiThe importance of innovation has attracted growing attention due to the complex and rapidly changing business environment. This study aimed, first, to examine the joint…
Impact of digital inclusive finance on household tourism consumption: evidence from China
Xiaojun Wu, Huijia ChangThis paper aims to explore the role of digital inclusive finance (DIF) in influencing household tourism consumption, whether this influence differs between households with…
Preferences and challenges towards the adoption of the fourth industrial revolution technologies by hotels: a multilevel concurrent mixed approach
Benjamin Appiah Osei, Michael ChengThe aim of this mixed methods study sought to investigate the preferences and challenges towards fourth industrial revolution (FIR) technologies adoption at hotels in Malaysia.
Industry 4.0 technologies as a lever for sustainability in the communication of large companies to stakeholders
Michela Piccarozzi, Alessandra Stefanoni, Cecilia Silvestri, Giuseppe IoppoloTechnological innovation, digitalisation and the Industry 4.0 revolution radically changed business management and contributed to the achievement of sustainability goals…
The impact of proactive personality and psychological capital on innovative work behavior: evidence from software houses of Pakistan
Irfan Ullah, Raja Mazhar Hameed, Abid MahmoodThe purpose of the contemporary research study is to develop and empirically investigate antecedents of innovative work behavior (IWB) in organizations by applying the…
The relationship between stressors and Chinese employees' innovative work behavior: the role of task crafting and psychological detachment
Jinmeng Yu, Jinlan Liu, Sheng Lin, Xianglan ChiThis study aims to explore the boundary conditions of the relationship between challenge-hindrance stressors and innovative work behavior via task crafting and…
Political skills matter: the role of academic entrepreneurs in team innovation
Xueyan Zhang, Xiaohu Zhou, Qiao Wang, Zhouyue Wu, Yue SuiBased on social influence theory, this paper aims to explore the influence of academic entrepreneurs on team innovation activities. The innovation behavior of academic…
Management innovation and its relation to innovation outcomes and firm performance: a systematic literature review and future research agenda
Edwin Alexander Henao-García, Raúl Armando Cardona MontoyaThe main purpose of this review is to enhance the understanding of intellectual structure and outlook of management innovation research as an interesting and growing…
Open-up or stay closed: the effect of TMT gender diversity on open innovation
Abubakr Saeed, Ashiq Ali, Hammad RiazDespite the importance of top management team (TMT) gender diversity in a firm's strategic decisions and the high degree of innovation activities that several firms have…
When is research and development more effective in times of crisis? The role of environmental policies
Claudio Petti, Dominique Lepore, Olena Liakh, Gianluca EliaIn times of crisis, innovation management and specifically Research and Development (R&D) investments are critical to temper company losses and stimulate higher revenues…
Research trends on guest experience with service robots in the hospitality industry: a bibliometric analysis
Tayfun Yörük, Nuray Akar, Neslihan Verda ÖzmenThe purpose of this study is to reveal the research trends in guest experiences of service robots in the hospitality industry.
The theoretical framework of enterprise digital innovation: insights from a qualitative meta-analysis
Qin LinThis study aims to excavate the external and internal driving factors of enterprise digital innovation and further condense the function mechanisms and response actions of…
The different effects of venture capital and the trade-off between product innovation effectiveness and efficiency
Ting Xiao, Zhi Yang, Yanhui JiangWhich venture capital is more beneficial in the product innovation of entrepreneurial ventures? The authors study the drawbacks and different effects of corporate venture…
Innovation sharing a remedial measure: the case of Covid-19 pandemic
Sumran Ali, Jawaria Ashraf, Muhammad Ghufran, Peng Xiaobao, Liu ZhiyingThis study has aimed to analyse the role of innovation-sharing collaboration in the large-scale manufacturing of Covid-19 vaccination across the globe and its impact on…
How market orientation affects open innovation? Exploring the role of information and communication technology capability
Miaomiao Yin, Jiying LiBased on the organizational learning theory, this study regards market orientation as market-based learning and seeks to advance insight into how proactive and responsive…
Smart tourism: antecedents to Indian traveller's decision
Manisha Paliwal, Nishita Chatradhi, Archana Singh, Ramkrishna DikkatwarThe purpose of this paper is to explore the tourists' perception of smart tourism with the application of virtual reality and design a framework of smart tourism with…
Contacts on LinkedIn: equity crowdfunding platforms' networks and creators' innovation performance
Elvira Anna Graziano, Lucrezia Fattobene, Guido Giovando, Annaclaudia PellicelliThe purpose of this paper is to explore whether and how the innovation performance of start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that collect funds using…
Exploring the factors for open innovation in post-COVID-19 conditions by fuzzy Delphi-ISM-MICMAC approach
Shafqat Ullah, Zhu Jianjun, Khizar Hayat, Dario Natale Palmucci, Pavol DuranaOpen innovation has attracted the attention of experts and business entities for the sustainable survivability of firms, especially in the post-COVID-19 era. The food and…
Matching innovation strategies and crowdfunding campaigns: an explorative investigation
Diego Matricano, Elena CandeloThe present paper aims to explore if innovation strategies and crowdfunding campaigns can be cross-referred or even matched. These alternatives could increase the…
The role of social media marketing activities in driving self–brand connection and user engagement behavior on Instagram: a moderation–mediation approach
Blend Ibrahim, Ahmad AljarahThis study explores central questions related to the connection between social media marketing activities (SMMAs), user engagement and the self-brand connection of…
Exploring measures to enhance the low adoption rate of IR 4.0 technologies: a qualitative inquiry with hotels during COVID-19
Benjamin Appiah Osei, Neethiahnanthan Ari Ragavan, Balasubramanian Kandappan, Foster FrempongWhile there was heightened awareness on the technologies of the fourth industrial revolution (IR 4.0) prior to COVID-19, studies have shown that the adoption of these…
Exploring the antecedents of frugal innovation and operational performance: the role of organizational learning capability and entrepreneurial orientation
Ana Clara Berndt, Giancarlo Gomes, Felipe Mendes BoriniThis study aimed to analyze the role of organizational learning capability and entrepreneurial orientation on frugal innovation and, consequently, operational performance…
How technological relatedness influences inter-firm collaborative performance: an empirical study on 5 high-tech fields of scientific and technological achievements
Guilong Zhu, Fu Sai, Zitao QinThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of two dimensions of technological relatedness, namely technological similarity and complementarity, on…
The configurational effects of centrifugal and centripetal forces on firms' breakthrough innovation and strategic performance in the artificial intelligence context
Jun Yu, Qian Wen, Qin XuThe purpose of this study is to empirically explore how firms configure centrifugal and centripetal forces in promoting breakthrough innovation (BI), thus improving their…
Mapping the field of crowdfunding and new ventures: a systematic literature review
Sanjay Chaudhary, Amandeep Dhir, Enrico Battisti, Tomas KliestikCrowdfunding, an alternative funding source to support entrepreneurial initiatives, has increasingly attracted the attention of scholars. However, knowledge of the drivers…
Public user innovation: exploring the support mechanisms and user roles in a public organisation
Siw Marita FosstenløkkenThis article expands literature on user innovation by exploring the mechanisms that support user innovations in the context of a public organisation. Research has hitherto…
The impact of innovation news coverage on illiquid stocks: the case of US market
Elena Fedorova, Valentin StepanovThe purpose of this study is to determine stock market reactions to the news about innovations and other types of publications for illiquid stocks.
“Live in the present” or “focus on the future”: the effects of ambidextrous marketing capabilities on entrepreneurial performance
Wei Li, Hewen Ming, Jianmin SongAlthough the published studies have noted that ambidextrous marketing capabilities (AMCs) could improve firm performance, they seem to ignore the differences between…
At the crossroad of digital and tourism entrepreneurship: mediating effect of digitalization in hospitality industry
Marcin Suder, Joanna Duda, Rafał Kusa, Alexandra Mora-CruzThis study aims to explore the role of digital technologies in tourism entrepreneurship. In particular, the main objective of this research is to examine the relationships…
Disintermediation and the role of DMCs: a new management strategy in rural tourism
Asuncion Fernandez-Villaran, Jorge Rivera-García, Ricardo Pastor-RuizThe Internet has encouraged rural tourism experience providers to develop a new management strategy that opts for disintermediation to access the market. In this context…
Past for Future – museums as a digitalized “interaction platform” for value co-creation in tourism destinations
Francesco Saverio Massari, Pasquale Del Vecchio, Eva Degl'innocentiThis paper aims to explore how digital technologies can transform the museum into an “interaction platform” able to play a key role in the value co-creation processes of…
Digital transformation using industry 4.0 technology by food and beverage companies in post COVID-19 period: from DCV and IDT perspective
Sheshadri Chatterjee, Ranjan Chaudhuri, Demetris Vrontis, Antonino GalatiThis study aims to understand the influence of digital transformation, using Industry 4.0 technology, on food and beverage companies in the post-COVID-19 period.
The differential impact of user- and firm-generated content on online brand advocacy: customer engagement and brand familiarity matter
Ahmad Aljarah, Dima Sawaftah, Blend Ibrahim, Eva Lahuerta-OteroThe aim of this study is first, to investigate the relative effect of user-generated content (UGC) and firm-generated content (FGC) on online brand advocacy, and second…
Green supply chain management and innovation persistence–Based on environmental turbulence perspective
Ziqin Yu, Xiang XiaoIn recent years, environmental issues and resource depletion have posed significant challenges to firms and society. To address these environmental challenges, firms seek…
Leveraging the supply base for innovation: how does supply base management affect innovation performance?
Xiaoyun Li, Suicheng Li, Jianqi Qiao, Mengchao WuThis study aims to develop a moderated mediation model to explain the practices of supply base management and how they can achieve innovation performance, and the authors…
Innovation conviction, innovation mindset and innovation creed as precursors for the need for achievement and women's entrepreneurial success in South Africa: entrepreneurial education as a moderator
Eugine Tafadzwa Maziriri, Brighton Nyagadza, Tinashe ChuchuThis study aims to determine the impact of innovation conviction, innovation mindset and innovation creed on the need for achievement and the success of women…
The coupling and coordination relationship of the digital economy and tourism industry from the perspective of industrial integration
Xinliang Ye, Jing Wang, Ruihong SunThe digital economy has become a key force supporting the high-quality development of tourism. This paper discusses the coupling coordination relationship and…
Exploration versus exploitation: how interorganizational power dependence influences SME product innovation? An empirical study in China
Zhengyang Wu, Feng Yang, Fangqing WeiInterorganizational power dependence has become an increasingly important factor for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to improve product innovation. This paper…
The more funds the better? External funds, R&D investment and firm innovation: critical role of firm leaders' international experience
Li Liu, Caiting DongThe purpose of this study is to examine the moderating effect of two types of external funds in terms of loan and government subsidy on the relationship between R&D…
Financial technology to address the liability of poorness? A typology of FinTech organisations
Nadeera RanabahuThis paper explores how financial technology (FinTech) organisations address poverty-related challenges when providing digital financial services. Employing the conceptual…
Crowdfunding and innovation: a bibliometric review and future research agenda
Augusto Bargoni, Alberto Ferraris, Stefano Bresciani, Mark Anthony CamilleriThis article aims to investigate the status of and the trends in the intertwining of crowdfunding and innovation literature by identifying, evaluating and synthesizing the…
Food 4.0 for competing during the COVID-19 pandemic: experimenting digitalization in family firms
Domenica Barile, Giustina Secundo, Pasquale Del VecchioWithin food industry several changes and innovations are affecting the management of the entire supply chain (production, logistics, etc.). As strategy for the survival…
Managerial control systems and innovation partnership success: an empirical analysis in Italian firms
Anna Pistoni, Anna Arcari, Chiara GigliaranoThis study analyses the link between product/service innovation, partnerships and Managerial Control System (MCS). Particularly, it aims to analyse empirically the role of…
Seizing the moment in the flux of Industry 4.0: technological opportunism, innovativeness and new product performance in international markets
Jinwan Cho, Insik Jeong, Eunmi Kim, Hyo Eun ChoRecent technological turbulence stemming from Industry 4.0 provides managerial opportunities and challenges simultaneously. In this context, the purpose of this study is…
Do we innovate atop giants' shoulders?
Fushu Luan, Yang Chen, Ming He, Donghyun ParkThe main purpose of this paper is to explore whether the nature of innovation is accumulative or radical and to what extent past year accumulation of technology stock can…
Entrepreneurial e-equity crowdfunding platforms: antecedents of knowledge acquisition and innovation performance
Ali Abdallah Alalwan, Abdullah M. Baabdullah, Joma Omran Mahfod, Paul Jones, Anshuman Sharma, Yogesh K. DwivediThe crowdfunding concept and activities have recently been the focus of attention of many researchers and practitioners over different business contexts. However, there is…
The impact of FDI technology spillover on the innovation quality of Chinese enterprises: a microperspective based on geographic proximity
Li Yue, Chenxi Huang, Yuxuan CaoPrevious studies have reached inconsistent conclusions on foreign direct investment (FDI) technology spillovers and corporate innovation. The main purpose of this paper is…
The political game of innovation: evidence from the ride-hailing service industry
Chee Wei Cheah, Kian Yeik KoayUnderpinned by the legitimacy perspective, this study explores how ride-hailing services are legitimized through resource exchange among the industry players. The authors…
Food start-ups: leveraging digital marketing and disruptive information systems innovations to survive in the post-COVID environment
Mohammed AlmansourThe COVID-19 pandemic impacted the food and beverage sector very severely. The complete breakdown of the supply chain and lack of customers was particularly challenging…
How do firms use virtual brand communities to improve innovation performance? Based on consumer participation and organizational learning perspectives
Jian Zheng, Renjing Liu, Ru Zhang, Hao XuIn the context of virtual brand communities (VBCs), based on self-determination theory and organizational binary learning (OBL) theory, this study investigates the direct…
Theory of planned behavior and GEM framework – How can cognitive traits for entrepreneurship be used by incubators and accelerators?
Gustavo Morales-Alonso, José Antonio Blanco-Serrano, Yilsy Núñez Guerrero, Mercedes Grijalvo, Francisco José Blanco JimenezThis research aims at the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and the global entrepreneurship monitor (GEM) framework – How can cognitive traits for entrepreneurship be used…
Perceived insider status and employees' innovative behavior: the role of knowledge sharing and organizational innovation climate
Guangning Zhang, Xinxin Zhang, Yingying WangThis study aims to investigate the effect of perceived insider status to employees' innovative behavior, the mediating role of knowledge sharing and the moderating role of…
Front-end of innovation: a systematic review and lifecycle analysis
Maicon Gouvea de Oliveira, Glauco Henrique de Sousa Mendes, Karina Mendes SerranoThis study investigates the intellectual structure of the front-end of innovation (FEI) research field and elaborates a lifecycle model, which embraces the FEI progress…
Spurring innovation through intentional organizational crisis: the moderating effects of past performance and resources allocation capability
Yan Shi, Bo Zou, Chunlan Wang, Ou LiHow to promote innovation remains a challenge. In practice, some enterprises try to initiate an organizational crisis intentionally to spur innovation. This study…
Effect of knowledge resources on innovation and the mediating role of dynamic capabilities: case of medical tourism sector in Iran
Gerry Edgar, Amirali Kharazmi, Sedigheh Behzadi, Omid Ali KharazmiThis research is an empirical study that addresses whether knowledge resources impact on, or do not impact on, innovation development and if this impact is mediated by…
Promoting tourism business through digital marketing in the new normal era: a sustainable approach
Santus Kumar Deb, Shohel Md. Nafi, Marco ValeriThis paper aims to measure the intention to use digital marketing strategies to enhance the performance of tourism business as well as the extent of digital renovation…
From curiosity to innovativeness: the mediating mechanisms of cultural intelligence and knowledge sharing behaviour
Angela Shin-yih Chen, Min-dau Bian, Trung Kim Nguyen, Chien-Hua ChangThis study aimed to examine the effects of curiosity on expatriates' innovative work behaviour and job satisfaction in a cross-cultural setting, with the sequential…
Measuring the impact of remote working adaptation on employees' well-being during COVID-19: insights for innovation management environments
Francisco Javier Alvarez-Torres, Giovanni SchiumaA new type of digital-based worker emerged during the COVID-19. As a result, during the adjustment to this scenario, family, resources and emotions were impacted…
The state of the art of innovation management: insights from a retrospective review of the European Journal of Innovation Management
Nisha Bamel, Satish Kumar, Umesh Bamel, Weng Marc Lim, Riya SurekaInnovation goes beyond creation, concentrating on enhancement, which is essential for advancement. Since 1998, the European Journal of Innovation Management (EJIM) has…
Crowdsourcing initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic: empirical evidence from the Italian context
Silvia Vermicelli, Livio Cricelli, Michele Grimaldi, Benito Mignacca, Serena StrazzulloAcademics and practitioners are increasingly discussing the role of crowdsourcing initiatives in dealing with the challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, along with…
A framework for sustainable technological innovation capability: a research and policy direction
Shepherd Dhliwayo, Abdella Kosa CheboThis study aims to examine the dimensions of technological innovation capability (TIC) and associated factors from the perspectives of sustainability.
Achieving sustainable competitiveness of tourism dynamics with resource-based view
Elitua Simarmata, Retno Kusumastuti, Chandra WijayaThis research aims to model the existing system of destination competitiveness, identifies leverage points and develop revised model to achieve sustainable competitiveness.
Supply chain network structure and firm's R&D investments: empirical evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms
Heshu Huang, Jiping Zhang, Ji Yan, Yu Gong, Liukai WangThe purpose of this research is to investigate the R&D investment (RDI) of manufacturing firms from the perspective of supply chain network, especially the effect of…
How designed work environment and enacted work interactions impact creativity and work–life balance
Elisa Mattarelli, Carlotta Cochis, Fabiola Bertolotti, Paula UngureanuThis paper investigates how (1) a work environment designed to sustain creativity (i.e. through flexible arrangements and elements of the social-organizational work…
Crowdfunding small businesses and startups: a systematic review, an appraisal of theoretical insights and future research directions
Mark Anthony Camilleri, Stefano BrescianiThis contribution aims to evaluate key theoretical bases that were used in previous research, to investigate the use of crowdfunding platforms by small businesses and…
Green research intensity and diversified performance: the moderating role of environmental regulation
Libing Nie, Hong Gong, Xiuping LaiWhile implementing green innovation-driven strategies when facing growing grim environmental problems and the realistic demands of achieving high-quality development is…
Leader mindfulness and employee innovative work behaviour: a mediated moderation model
Chitra Khari, Aneet BaliThe study aims to investigate the influence of leader mindfulness on employee innovative work behaviour mediated by work engagement and moderated by employee learning orientation.
Role of smart technology use behaviour in enhancing tourist revisit intention: the theory of planned behaviour perspective
Kundan Zheng, Jeetesh Kumar, Puvaneswaran Kunasekaran, Marco ValeriThis study examines the influencing factors of smart technology use behaviour (STUB), influencing tourist satisfaction and enhancing revisit intention for the Chinese…
Are family firms really reluctant to innovate? Evidence from IPOs
Mario OssorioThe aim of this paper is to explore the family firms' propensity to undertake R&D investments after going public, showing how it varies due to the ownership structure.
Walking the managerial tightrope: top management involvement in product innovation projects
Burcu Felekoglu, Serdar S. Durmusoglu, Anja M. Maier, James MoultrieThis study examines how technical drivers as well as social drivers influence organic communication and top management involvement (TMI) in new product development (NPD…
Predicting Romanian tourism e-WOM intentions using value and personality theories
Hasnan Baber, Marius-Cristian Pană, Mina Fanea-IvanoviciThe tourism industry has a huge potential, and the return to its state prior to the COVID-19 pandemic is a large stake for any economy. Tourism e-WOM is an important…
Exploring institutional pressure, the top management team's response, green innovation adoption, and firm performance: evidence from Taiwan's electrical and electronics industry
Yi-Chun Huang, Chih-Hsuan HuangPrior research on green innovation has shown that institutional pressure stimulates enterprises to adopt green innovation. However, an institutional perspective does not…
Crowd inputs in reward-based and equity-based crowdfunding: a latent Dirichlet allocation approach on their potential for innovation
Edoardo Crocco, Elisa Giacosa, Dorra Yahiaoui, Francesca CulassoCrowdfunding platforms are important innovations that allow nascent entrepreneurs to gain access to financial resources and crowd inputs to better refine and develop their…
Knowledge management enablers and knowledge management processes: a direct and configurational approach to stimulate green innovation
Muhammad Usman Shehzad, Jianhua Zhang, Mir Dost, Muhammad Shakil Ahmad, Sajjad AlamGiven the critical importance of green innovation (GI) for organizations in developing economies, this study aims to examine the interrelationship between knowledge…
Is green customer integration always a facilitator for green product innovation?: A conflict-based view
Jiawen Chen, Linlin LiuAlthough the facilitating role of green customer integration in business-to-business (B2B) markets has been highlighted in some green product innovation literature…
The impact of social and organisational capital on service innovation capability during COVID-19: the mediating role of strategic environmental scanning
Lama Blaique, Taghreed Abu-Salim, Farzana Asad Mir, Barry OmahonyThis purpose of this study was to examine the impact of social and organisational capital on service innovation capability among service firms in the United Arab Emirates…
Can market knowledge lead to radical product innovation performance? The double-edged sword effect of absorptive capacity
Chia-Yang Chang, Kuen-Hung Tsai, Billy SungThis paper examines the effect of market knowledge on market success of product innovativeness and the moderating role of absorptive capacity. We separated market…
How to benefit from digital platform capabilities? Examining the role of knowledge bases and organisational routines updating
Longjun Liu, Qing Fan, Ruhong Liu, Guiqing Zhang, Wenhai Wan, Jing LongThis study aims to explore whether digital platform capabilities (integration and reconstruction) affect technological innovation through knowledge bases in the dimensions…
Financing constraints and innovation performance: the moderating role of the network location of cross-border innovation cooperation among Internet enterprises
Yilin Zhang, Changyuan Gao, Jing WangThis study aims to explore the relationship between financing constraints and the innovation performance of Internet enterprises in the cross-border innovation cooperation…
Entrepreneurial mentoring, financial support and incubator patent licensing: evidence from Chinese incubators
Yanru Chang, Qiang ChengBased on Chinese incubators as the research sample, this paper aims to examine whether and how incubators' entrepreneurial mentoring and financial support affect incubator…
Effects of open climate on innovation radicality in SMEs: relevance of hidden innovation
María Isabel Barba-Aragón, Daniel Jimenez-Jimenez, Ledian Valle-MestreOpen innovation is an issue that has aroused great interest in recent years. The need to create an environment that facilitates the creation of ideas is essential for the…
Investigating the role of Fintech in the banking industry: what do we know?
Gianluca Elia, Valeria Stefanelli, Greta Benedetta FerilliIn recent years, the penetration of digital technologies in the financial industry determined the arising of Fintech, which generated a dynamic and rapid change that…
Does green process innovation affect a firm's financial risk? The moderating role of slack resources and competitive intensity
Adeel Tariq, Sadaf Ehsan, Yuosre F. Badir, Mumtaz Ali Memon, Muhammad Saleem Ullah Khan SumbalOver the last two decades, corporations have increasingly adopted green innovation to lessen the unsuitable impact on the environment and gain competitive advantage at the…
How does family ownership and management influence green innovation of family firms: evidence from China
Xuelei Yang, Hangbiao Shang, Weining Li, Hailin LanBased on the socio-emotional wealth and agency theories, this study empirically investigates the impact of family ownership and management on green innovation (GI) in…
The impact of enterprise niche on dual innovation performance: moderating role of innovation openness
Hui Zhang, Huanhuan Xiong, Qian Wang, Yongjie GuThis paper aims to explore the impact of enterprise niche on dual innovation performance and the moderating role of innovation openness on the relationship between…
Soft quality management practices and product innovation ambidexterity: the mediating role of market orientation ambidexterity
Younès El Manzani, Mostapha El Idrissi, Zakaria LissaneddineThis study empirically analyzes the direct impacts of soft quality management practices (SQMP) and market orientation ambidexterity (MOA) on product innovation…
The main risk factors for rural innovation in Europe: an analysis of 200 case studies
José M. Díaz-Puente, Susana Martín-Fernández, Diego Suárez, Verónica De Castro-Muñoz, Maddalena BettoniEuropean rural development programmes are driving multi-actor interactive innovation initiatives and alliances to create an environment in which innovation acts as a tool…
Does generation matter to innovation development? A new look at entrepreneurial businesses from the perspective of resource-based view (RBV)
Dafna Kariv, Luis Cisneros, Gaby Kashy-Rosenbaum, Norris KruegerResearch shows that innovation is imperative for business competitiveness and that entrepreneurs are stimulators of innovation. This is particularly true for younger…
Fostering product and process innovation through transformational leadership and knowledge management capability: the moderating role of innovation culture
Linnan Gui, Hui Lei, Phong Ba LeDue to the vital role of innovation for firms to respond effectively to the rapid changes of business environment, the purpose of this study is to explore the influence of…
Modelling organizational resilience structure: insights to assess resilience integrating bounce-back and bounce-forward
Ilona Bartuseviciene, Mindaugas Butkus, Giovanni SchiumaThis paper aims to model organizational resilience structure. Based on the central insights of the scientific literature, organizational resilience is modelled as the…
Knowledge recombination, environmental turbulence and firms' innovation quality: the evidence from Chinese pharmaceutical industry
Zhen Luo, Julie Callaert, Deming Zeng, Bart Van LooyShifting focus from innovation quantity to innovation quality becomes a priority in innovation study, business and policy. This paper aims to figure out whether and how…
Impact of ambidextrous human resource practices on employee innovation performance: the roles of inclusive leadership and psychological safety
Fuqiang Zhao, Wei Hu, Fawad Ahmed, Haoyu HuangHuman resource practices are transforming at a varying pace for different businesses to meet the increasingly intensified external challenges. The pursuit of innovation…
Enhancing innovation through gender diversity: a two-country study of top management teams
Martin Hemmert, Cecile K. Cho, Ji Young LeeBuilding on upper echelons theory, the authors advance the literature on the influence of diversity on innovation by studying the link between top management team (TMT…
Can intellectual capital promote the competitive advantage? Service innovation and big data analytics capabilities in a moderated mediation model
Ayman Wael Alkhatib, Marco ValeriThis study explores the connection between intellectual capital (IC) components and the competitive advantage (CA) of the hospitality sector in Jordan through the…
Collaborative networks, organizational culture, and the creativity of key inventors
Xiaoming Sun, Fayou Lei, Yalan Wang, Ruobing RenThe purpose of this paper is to study the influence mechanism of different levels of social capital (Structure holes–local network attributes and indirect ties–global…
Impacts of economic and social motivations on makers' exploitation and exploration activities in makerspaces
Zhi Yang, Hui Lu, Jiaxin BaoMakerspaces, which serve as fertile grounds for makers' innovation activities, are rapidly increasing in emerging markets to help unleash a massive wave of bottom-up…
Boundary-spanning search and business model innovation: the joint moderating effects of innovative cognitive imprinting and environmental dynamics
Peiyu Zhu, Xiaoming Miao, Shumo JinBusiness model innovation (BMI) is an important channel of enterprise innovation, and BMI's antecedents have attracted extensive attention. The purpose of this paper is to…
Executive shareholding, institutional investor shareholding and enterprise innovation
Tai Wang, Daoping ChengThe purpose of this study is to empirically investigate the relationship between executive shareholding, institutional investor shareholding and corporate innovation, and…
Internal organizational networks and green innovation performance in Chinese new ventures: the roles of corporate proactive environmental strategy and the regulatory quality
Lapologang Sebaka, Shuliang ZhaoSynthesizing from the institutional theory and social network theory, this study investigates factors influencing green innovation performance in new ventures.
Independent directors and firm innovation: the moderating role of gender and nationality diversity
Johana Sierra-Morán, Laura Cabeza-García, Nuria González-ÁlvarezAlthough the literature on corporate governance and firm innovation finds that board independence is important, this paper proposes that the presence of independent…
Customers' annual report tone and suppliers' innovation decisions: evidence from China
Yingying Xin, Xiao Zeng, Zhengying LuoThis paper examines whether and how customers' annual report tone affects suppliers' innovation decisions.
Feeling torn? The conflicting effects of market and entrepreneurial orientations on manufacturing SMEs' innovation performance
Hyojin Kim, Daesik HurThis study focuses on how a small and medium-sized enterprise's (SME's) main strategic orientation can affect SMEs' approach to innovation. The authors aim to answer the…
Environmental policy uncertainty and corporate green innovation: evidence from China
Jinrong Huang, Zongjun Wang, Zhenyu Jiang, Qin ZhongPrevious studies have mostly discussed the impact of environmental policy on enterprise innovation, but the discussion on how turbulence in environmental policy may affect…
AMO-enhancing practices, open innovation and organizations’ innovation in the European context: testing a mediation model
Filippo Ferrarini, Ylenia CurziThe literature has recognized the key role of the human resource management (HRM) practices for enhancing firms’ innovative performance. At the same time, scholars have…
Exploring how entrepreneurial orientation improve firm resilience in digital era: findings from sequential mediation and FsQCA
Qinghua Xia, Yi Xie, Shuchuan Hu, Jianmin SongUnder extensive pressure from normal market competition, frequent technological change and extreme exogenous shock, firms are facing severe challenge nowadays. How to…
Influence of dynamic capabilities on novelty-centered business model design: a moderated mediating effect analysis
Changwei Pang, Qiong Wang, Songqiang WuThe purpose of this paper is to examine the underlying mediating mechanism and contextual conditions in the relationship between dynamic capabilities and novelty-centered…
Barriers to external knowledge search for innovation: empirical evidence from the Korean manufacturing industry
Hee Jin MunThis study focuses on resolving empirical inconsistencies in the relationship between external search breadth and innovation performance. Based on research on the…
Marketing strategy decision making in new product development: direct effects and moderation by market information time sensitivity and analyzability
Serdar S. Durmusoglu, Kwaku Atuahene-Gima, Roger J. CalantoneResearch on market information use in product innovation suggests that firms utilize two key strategic decision-making processes: incremental and comprehensive. Drawing…
Opening up to innovation: emotional intelligence as an intrapersonal resource
Bradley G. Winton, Misty A. SabolThere is no innovation without ideas. More than ever before, these ideas are increasingly difficult to express in a changing environment ripe with emotions. Today's…
The evolution of the disruptive ecosystem: a framework integrating disruption, ecosystems, and business models
Joao Paulo Nascimento Silva, André GrützmannThis article aims to understand the dynamics between disruptive innovations and innovation ecosystems, using disruption business models as a catalyst.
Too much of a good thing? The nonlinear influence of noncontrolling large shareholders on corporate innovation
He Wan, Qiuping Peng, Xi ZhongNoncontrolling large shareholders can reduce the agency problem of executives and can reduce the expropriation or tunneling behavior of controlling shareholders, thereby…
Patent management: the prominent role of strategy and organization
Lara Agostini, Anna Nosella, Marcus HolgerssonThe purpose of this article is twofold; to verify the existence of different profiles of firms based on the level of sophistication of their patent management core…
Linking ethical leadership to followers' innovative work behavior in Pakistan: the vital roles of psychological safety and proactive personality
Israr Ahmad, Yongqiang Gao, Fangguo Su, Muhammad Kamran KhanThis study examines the link between ethical leadership and innovative work behavior. Also, drawing on the substitute for leadership theory, this study investigates the…
How do formal and informal institutional distance affect the reverse knowledge spillover of Chinese MNCs?
Yi She, Jin Hong, Chuwei JiThis study examines the impact of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) of Chinese multinational corporations (MNCs) and formal and informal institutional distances…
The impact of user innovator mindset on feedback volume, feedback diversity and new product development performance
Jiajun Wu, Matthew O'Hern, Jun YeThis study examines the influence of different user innovator mindsets on new product development (NPD) performance. The current research explores the relative impact of a…
Social capital as the main driver of organizationally valuable innovation
John P. MeyerThrough a juxtaposition of social capital with two other forms of intellectual capital – human capital and organizational capital – the author proposes and tests a…
Mediating effects of employees' eudaimonic and hedonic well-being between distributed leadership and ambidextrous innovation: does employees' age matter?
Sarra BerraiesDrawing upon the job demands-resources (JD-R) model, this research examines the contribution of distributed leadership (DL) to ambidextrous innovation and the mediating…
Understanding the influence of technological capability and exogenous pressure on business model dynamics: insights from a longitudinal case study
Jingqin Su, Shuai Zhang, Huanhuan MaThe purpose of the study is to explore how technological capability and exogenous pressure interactively influence business model (BM) dynamics over time in new…
Identifying high quality ideas in the online context: evidence from a meta-analysis
Suya Hu, Di XuWith the rapid development of web-based ideation platforms, firms are increasingly reaching outside their boundaries to obtain ideas, which makes idea evaluation tricky…
How do Chinese SMEs enhance technological innovation capability? From the perspective of innovation ecosystem
Yue SongThe purpose of this study is to investigate the influence mechanisms of multi-level ecological participants on technological innovation capabilities within the focal small…
The influence of organisational justice and ethical leadership on employees’ innovation behaviour
Pinghao Ye, Liqiong Liu, Joseph TanThis paper aims to explore the influence of organisational justice (including distributional justice, procedural justice and interactional justice) and ethical leadership…
Supplier change, market competition and enterprise innovation
Yafei Zu, Ruonan ZhangThe purpose of this paper is to study enterprise innovation in the perspective of external supplier relationship. On this purpose, this paper examines the impact of…
Understanding the relationship between organizational culture and inbound open innovation
Franz Barjak, Fabian HeimschThe relationship between corporate culture and inbound open innovation (OI) has been limited to two sub-constructs: a culture for openness and an innovation culture, but…
The role of organization intermediaries in science-/techno-push versus user-centric approaches in health care innovation
Valerie Merindol, Alexandra Le Chaffotec, David W. VersaillesHealth care ecosystems instantiate different innovation trajectories, driven either by science-/techno-push or user-centric rationales. This article focuses on…
Tackling organizational innovativeness through strategic orientation: strategic alignment and moderating role of strategic flexibility
Abdelmohsen A. Nassani, Abdullah Mohammed AldakhilThe purpose of the research was to examine the effect of strategic orientation on organizational innovativeness of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Moreover, in order…
Identifying institutional barriers when implementing new technologies in the healthcare industry
Ignat Kulkov, Anastasia Tsvetkova, Maria Ivanova-GongneVirtual and augmented reality solutions in medicine are generally applied in communication, training, simulation and therapy. However, like most new digital developments…
How does disruptive innovation influence firm performance? A moderated mediation model
Chenxiao Wang, Feng Guo, Qingpu ZhangBased on the literature on disruptive innovation, this research explores how disruptive innovation directly and indirectly (via innovation speed and innovation quality…
Distributed innovation, digital entrepreneurial opportunity, IT-enabled capabilities, and enterprises' digital innovation performance: a moderated mediating model
Hongjuan Tang, Qi Yao, Francis Boadu, Yu XieAs an important driving factor of digital innovation, distributed innovation has received extensive attention from academia and business circles in recent years. However…
How specific investments influence NPD performance: exploring the roles of supplier involvement and IT implementation
Aihua WuThe impact of specific investments to performance has mixed arguments. This paper aims to clarify how and under what conditions specific investments made by manufacturer…
How does the digital innovation process unfold in practice? A novel third-generation and empirical-based need–solution pairing model
Haneen Allataifeh, Sedigheh Moghavvemi, Jahan Ara PeerallyThere is a lack of empirical-based models derived from practice to explain the digital innovation process. The authors investigate how the digital innovation process…
University business idea incubation and stakeholders' engagement: closing the gap between theory and practice
Giustina Secundo, Gioconda Mele, Giuseppina Passiante, Francesco AlbergoThe paper aims to contributes on the debates about University Idea Incubation by investigating the role and the engagement of different University's stakeholders in the…
Factors that influence service innovation: a systematic approach and a categorization proposal
Marcus Rodrigues Peixoto, Fabio de Oliveira Paula, Jorge Ferreira da SilvaService innovation (SI) is crucial for social and economic development. However, most of the studies about innovation relate to product/manufacturing. Aimed at enhancing…
Institutional pressure, firm's green resources and green product innovation: evidence from Taiwan's electrical and electronics sector
Yi-Chun Huang, Chih-Ta ChenIntegrating economic and green initiatives into firm strategies is a challenge for firms in various industries. The study aims to incorporate multiple views, i.e. green…
Does broader mean more general? Decomposing the effect of knowledge breadth on R&D and spillover of generic technology
Jie Cen, Mian Wang, Yan Yang, Jing Li, Rongjian YuIn the context of collaborative research and development (R&D), multi-actor participation and multi-resource integration of technological knowledge has become the…
Open innovation and organizational ambidexterity
Bang-Ning Hwang, Yi-Ping Lai, Chunhsien WangThis study aims to examine the relationships among open innovation, organizational ambidexterity and firm performance. One important aspect of open innovation is that it…
Stimulating frugal innovation via information technology resources, knowledge sources and market turbulence: a mediation-moderation approach
Muhammad Usman Shehzad, Jianhua Zhang, Phong Ba Le, Khalid Jamil, Ziao CaoGiven the importance of frugal innovation for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in developing countries, this study aims to explore the role of IT resources on…
She-E-Os and innovation: do female CEOs influence firm innovation?
Hafiz Mustansar Javaid, Qurat Ul Ain, Antonio RenziThis paper empirically investigates whether female CEOs (She-E-Os) have an effect on firm innovation among Chinese listed firms based on patent data. This study also…
Disclosure of innovation on sustainability report
Giovanni Bronzetti, Maurizio Rija, Graziella Sicoli, Dominga IppolitoThere are several studies on various aspects of the disclosure of companies but there is little research on elements related to the disclosure of innovation in particular…
Survival of the fittest: the multiple paths of entrepreneurial leadership driving adaptive innovation in uncertain environment
Qin Lin, Lingfeng YiThis study aims to investigate the multiple influence paths or underlying mechanisms of entrepreneurial leadership (EL) on adaptive innovation from the perspectives of…
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