European Journal of Innovation Management: Volume 23 Issue 1

The digitalization of the innovation process: Challenges and opportunities from a management perspective

Lara Agostini, Francesco Galati, Luca Gastaldi

As various scholars have pointed out, the exponential growth in digital technologies has resulted in significant improvements to many business processes, and has also played a…

Collective firm-internal online idea development: Exploring the impact of feedback timeliness and knowledge overlap

Qian Chen, Mats Magnusson, Jennie Björk

New opportunities to nurture good ideas for innovation arise as firms use web-based ideation platforms for collective idea generation and development. What influences creative…

The contribution of board of directors’ roles to ambidextrous innovation: Do board’s gender diversity and independence matter?

Wajdi Ben Rejeb, Sarra Berraies, Dorra Talbi

The purpose of this paper is to examine the link between board of directors’ roles namely strategy, service and control roles and ambidextrous innovation. This study also aims to…

Linking corporate entrepreneurship, expatriation and reverse knowledge transfers

Muhammad Mustafa Raziq, Cristina Doritta Rodrigues, Felipe Mendes Borini, Omer Farooq Malik, Abubakr Saeed

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) encourage their subsidiaries to develop and transfer their unique knowledge and expertise back to the MNE as it is critical for the development of…

Three configurations of corporate innovation programs and their interplay

Michael Kötting, Andreas Kuckertz

The success of corporate innovation is based less upon the success of a single innovation program than on a holistic and overarching corporate innovation system integrating…

How ethical leadership influences creativity and organizational innovation: Examining the underlying mechanisms

Imran Shafique, Bashir Ahmad, Masood Nawaz Kalyar

The purpose of this paper is to answer two questions. What is the impact of ethical leadership on followers’ creativity and organizational innovation? What are the mechanisms…

The impact of technological innovation efficiency on firm growth: The moderating role of family involvement in management

Rubén Martínez-Alonso, María J. Martínez-Romero, Alfonso A. Rojo-Ramírez

The purpose of this paper is to offer new insights regarding an issue that has attracted the interest of multitude academics and practitioners in business management and family…

The double-edged effect of knowledge search on innovation generations

Chunhsien Wang, Min-Nan Chen, Ching-Hsing Chang

The purpose of this paper is to investigate alliance partner diversity (APD) as a driving force that potentially enhances firms’ innovation generation (IG) in interfirm open…

Impact of business model objectives on marketing innovation activities: A comparison between manufacturing and service firms

Francisco-Jose Molina-Castillo, Angel-Luis Meroño-Cerdan, Carolina López-Nicolás

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the differences and similarities that arise between manufacturing and service firms with regard to the impact of business model objectives…