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1 – 10 of over 37000With the ever-growing turbulent business setting, there is a great interest to study how a firm tailors information technology (IT) capability to shape agility and innovation…
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Purpose
With the ever-growing turbulent business setting, there is a great interest to study how a firm tailors information technology (IT) capability to shape agility and innovation capability to stay ahead of the competition. This study examines how IT governance and IT capability can be tailored to achieve firm performance through agility and innovative capability in a turbulent environment.
Design/methodology/approach
Drawing on the dynamic capability theory, this study based on the primary survey data of 253 responses from senior IT and business executives in China proves the hypothesized relationship in the proposed model.
Findings
This study shows that the IT governance mechanism positively impacts on IT-enabled dynamic capabilities. Further, IT-enabled dynamic capabilities positively impact on agility and innovative capability that in turn support to achieve firm performance. The environmental uncertainty is only significant in the IT-enabled dynamic capabilities–business process agility relationship.
Research limitations/implications
This study suggests corporate leaders and executives to better exploit their resources and tailor IT capabilities in the turbulent environment. Further, this study offers theoretical and practical implications.
Originality/value
This study proposes ways for executives to examine the multifaceted nature of environmental uncertainty to achieve agility, innovation and firm performance rather than simply investing in IT.
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The purpose of this paper is to develop a systematic understanding of the mechanisms through which high-performance work systems (HPWSs) facilitate the incremental and radical…
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The purpose of this paper is to develop a systematic understanding of the mechanisms through which high-performance work systems (HPWSs) facilitate the incremental and radical innovative capabilities of organizations. Using a knowledge-based view of the firm, the paper introduces the mediating role of intellectual capital (composed of human, organizational and social capital) while examining this issue.
Design/methodology/approach
Data were collected using a questionnaire survey approach from 164 firms in the People's Republic of China. The paper used analyses based on structural equation modeling to measure the main constructs and test the hypothesized relationships among the variables.
Findings
The results indicate that HPWSs contribute to both the incremental and radical innovative capabilities of organizations. In addition, intellectual capital mediates the relationships between HPWSs and different types of innovative capabilities. Specifically, organizational and social capital mediate the relationship between HPWSs and incremental innovative capability, whereas social capital mediates the relationship between HPWSs and radical innovative capability.
Originality/value
The study supports and expands on the strategic human resource management (SHRM) literature and knowledge-based view of the firm in terms of whether, why and how HPWSs can develop a competitive advantage on the basis of innovation.
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The purpose of this paper is to offer a conceptual understanding of the role played by social capital when firms engage in collaborative partnerships to develop their innovative…
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The purpose of this paper is to offer a conceptual understanding of the role played by social capital when firms engage in collaborative partnerships to develop their innovative capability, especially under environmental turbulence.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper is theoretical in nature, drawing conceptual insights from two complementary theories: the resource-based view of the firm and institutional theory.
Findings
Social capital plays a beneficial role by enhancing the innovative capability of firms, but only up to a point. The paper argues social capital has both positive and negative effects and follows a non-linear relationship with innovative capability. Further, this relationship is also affected by the level of environmental turbulence faced by the firm.
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By conceptualizing social capital as a double-edged sword in terms of its impact on firm innovative capability, the paper offers insights for managerial action and practice.
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Muhammad Azhar Khalil, Muhammad Khuram Khalil and Rashid Khalil
This paper aims to examine the role of organizational innovative capabilities (OIC) on the relationship between knowledge sharing (KS), corporate entrepreneurship (CE) and firm…
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Purpose
This paper aims to examine the role of organizational innovative capabilities (OIC) on the relationship between knowledge sharing (KS), corporate entrepreneurship (CE) and firm performance (FP). Specifically, this study uses the knowledge-based view to develop a model that examines the mentioned relationship.
Design/methodology/approach
Using survey data from 520 participants across 75 service sector companies in Thailand, measurement and structure models are tested through structural equation modeling to quantify the impact between constructs.
Findings
This study shows that KS and CE positively affect OIC and FP. A positive relationship is also found between KS and CE. The mediating impact of OIC strengthens the relationship between KS and CE on FP.
Research limitations/implications
Like all research using survey methods, the research is prone to respondent biases and generalizability. However, this paper has put the best effort to minimize such effects by rigorous methodological testing to avoid such biases.
Practical implications
The findings of this study suggest that to improve organizational learning and knowledge-based performance, commitment and understanding of the employees in the entire organization is crucial. KS significantly contributes to developing innovative abilities because of its characteristics of providing firm-specific and socially complex advantages. The way a firm transforms and exploits its knowledge may ascertain its level of innovativeness, such as coming up with certain problem-solving procedures and new product development according to the rapid change in the market demand. However, organizations may only instigate to effectively organize knowledge when their employees are ready to share knowledge. Continuous KS boosts entrepreneurial practices and contributes innovativeness across individuals, groups, units or the entire organization.
Originality/value
The relationship between CE, organization innovative capabilities and FP in the presence of KS is rarely discussed in both theoretical and empirical literature. This study contributes to the literature by arguing that apart from the direct impact of KS on FP, KS can lead the firms toward generating important competitive advantage by forming innovative capabilities that can significantly influence FP.
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Aboobucker Ilmudeen, Yukun Bao, Ibraheem Mubarak Alharbi and Nawaz Zubair
Despite the existing literature on the impact of IT capability and innovation capabilities, this study examines how IT-enabled dynamic capability dimensions impact on firm…
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Purpose
Despite the existing literature on the impact of IT capability and innovation capabilities, this study examines how IT-enabled dynamic capability dimensions impact on firm innovative capability to achieve organizational performance.
Design/methodology/approach
Drawing on the dynamic capability theory, this study empirically investigates the entire chain of relationships among dynamic capability, innovative capability, organizational performance and turbulent environment.
Findings
Using the data from 254 Chinese firms, this study reveals IT-enabled dynamic capability dimensions have positive and significant relationship with firm innovative capability types, which in turn have significant relationship with organizational performance except the process innovation.
Research limitations/implications
This study contributes to the growing information systems literature and also suggests theoretical and practical implications.
Originality/value
This study examines IT-enabled dynamic capability with firm innovative capability types, which has received limited attention in the past.
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Teck-Yong Eng, Kholoud Mohsen and Lin-Chih Wu
The present study conceptualizes and examines the interplay of transformational leadership, ambidexterity and wireless information technology (IT) competency for enhancing…
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The present study conceptualizes and examines the interplay of transformational leadership, ambidexterity and wireless information technology (IT) competency for enhancing innovative capability.
Design/methodology/approach
Drawing primarily on the knowledge-based and dynamic capabilities view theory, the present study explored supply chains of a large global apparel company and their effect on innovative capability through a mixed methods approach.
Findings
The results show that transformational leaders strongly influence the development of ambidexterity and enhance radical innovative capability through wireless IT competency.
Research limitations/implications
The results of this study suggest that supply chain integration through transformational leadership and wireless IT competency can promote simultaneous exploration and exploitation to enhance innovation.
Practical implications
The growth of cloud and/or virtual supply chains facilitated by digital wireless communications and Internet technology is advancing logistics and supply chain innovations. With increasing global competition, digitalized supply chains and ever-growing environmental uncertainty, leadership traits, especially transformational leadership and ambidextrous leaders, can be major contributing factors for successful development of wireless IT competency to support innovative capability.
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Wireless IT competency facilitates knowledge integration particularly for combining prior internal knowledge of exploitative innovation with new external knowledge to develop explorative innovation.
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Zongling Xu, Jiali Lin and Danming Lin
This paper aims to investigate structural characteristics of a business network comprising small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs), and to explore the relationships between such…
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This paper aims to investigate structural characteristics of a business network comprising small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs), and to explore the relationships between such network characteristics and innovative capabilities of the participating firms.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper adopts a survey approach and conducts empirical analysis by drawing data from 92 firms operating in the packaging and printing industry in Shantou City, Guangdong Province.
Findings
In relation to the participating firms' innovative capabilities, density, reciprocity and multiplicity of the business network are figured out as factors with positive association, while hypotheses concerning intensity, non‐redundancy and betweenness of the network are not supported.
Research limitations/implications
The authors only conducted a survey in a single industry in one location. Thus the extent to which the results of this study can be generalized remains to be further investigated.
Practical implications
Small and medium‐sized enterprises can enhance their innovative capability by understanding and leveraging the structure of the business network in which they participate.
Originality/value
This paper sheds additional insights to the relationship between a business network and firms' innovative capabilities in a Chinese context.
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Mohamad Bahrami and Sajjad Shokouhyar
Big data analytics capability (BDAC) can affect firm performance in several ways. The purpose of this paper is to understand how BDA capabilities affect firm performance through…
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Big data analytics capability (BDAC) can affect firm performance in several ways. The purpose of this paper is to understand how BDA capabilities affect firm performance through supply chain resilience in the presence of the risk management culture.
Design/methodology/approach
The study adopted a cross-sectional approach to collect survey-based responses to examine the hypotheses. 167 responses were collected and analyzed using partial least squares in SmartPLS3. The respondents were generally senior IT executives with education and experience in data and business analytics.
Findings
The results show that BDA capabilities increase supply chain resilience as a mediator by enhancing innovative capabilities and information quality, ultimately leading to improved firm performance. In addition, the relationship between supply chain resilience and firm performance is influenced by risk management culture as a moderator.
Originality/value
The present study contributes to the relevant literature by demonstrating the mediating role of supply chain resilience between the BDA capabilities relationship and firm performance. In this context, some theoretical and managerial implications are proposed and discussed.
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Federico Stezano and Ruben Oliver Espinoza
This paper aims to provide empirical evidence regarding the relationship between different capabilities and innovation performances in the biotechnology sector, in the case of…
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This paper aims to provide empirical evidence regarding the relationship between different capabilities and innovation performances in the biotechnology sector, in the case of Mexico.
Design/methodology/approach
Given the aforementioned objective, this paper constructs different indicators on types of capabilities and innovative performances and, based on them, performs an econometric analysis based on a logit model. The work assumes the central assumptions of the firm's evolutionary theory and, in this sense, seeks to provide quantitative empirical evidence that explains the way in which the construction of different types of capacities determines the innovation results of Mexican firms in the biotechnology sector.
Findings
Corroborating the previous empirical evidence in analysis of firm’s capabilities in the biotechnology sector, this work empirically states that productive, absorption, technological and innovative capabilities positively influence the innovative performance of Mexican biotechnology firms.
Originality/value
This work examines a central theme linked to the current analysis of innovation and knowledge processes: the relationship between the organizational capacities of firms in the biotechnology sector and their innovative performance. Through a detailed analysis based on a national survey of Mexican biotechnology firms, this work underlines the importance of generating a new type of reflection on linkage among capabilities, innovation, paradigms and trajectories, technological opportunities, relationship dynamics among actors and modes of insertion into the biotechnology value chain.
Propósito
El propósito de esta investigación es determinar la influencia de diferentes tipos de capacidades en la habilidad de las empresas para innovar, medida como la introducción de productos biotecnológicos nuevos (o mejorados) en el mercado por parte de la empresa mexicana.
Diseño/metodología/enfoque
Se analizan los datos de una encuesta nacional de 40 empresas mexicanas de biotecnología en 2015. Se usó un modelo PLS teniendo en cuenta: el tamaño de la muestra, la naturaleza predictiva de la investigación y la complejidad de analizar el efecto de las variables latentes.
Resultados
De acuerdo con investigaciones anteriores, nuestros resultados muestran la influencia de las capacidades de innovación en los resultados de innovación logrados por la empresa de biotecnología. Por otro lado, el efecto de las capacidades de gestión en los resultados de innovación de la empresa es muy limitado y moderado. Finalmente, y a diferencia de la evidencia predominante anterior, no se encontró una relación entre las capacidades de absorción de las empresas y su desempeño innovador.
Originalidad/valor
El estudio proporciona nuevos aportes analíticos y empíricos que conducen a una reflexión sobre las oportunidades que tienen las empresas mexicanas de insertarse en los mercados globales de media y alta tecnología en el sector de la biotecnología. La detección de oportunidades tecnológicas aprovechables puede proporcionar a la biotecnología mexicana recursos directos para que desarrollen nuevas políticas de innovación e industriales y ajustar las actuales no organizadas.
Palabras clave
Biotecnología, Capacidades, Innovación, Desempeño de la empresa, Políticas sectoriales
Tipo de artículo
Trabajo de investigación
Objetivo
O objetivo desta pesquisa é determinar a influência de diferentes tipos de capacidades na capacidade de inovação das empresas, medida como a introdução de novos (ou melhorados) produtos biotecnológicos no mercado pela empresa mexicana.
Design/metodologia/abordagem
Os dados de uma pesquisa nacional de 40 empresas de biotecnologia mexicanas são analisados em 2015. Um modelo PLS foi usado levando em conta: o tamanho da amostra, a natureza preditiva da pesquisa e a complexidade de analisar o efeito de variáveis latentes.
Resultados
Segundo pesquisas anteriores, nossos resultados mostram a influência das capacidades de inovação nos resultados de inovação alcançados pela empresa de biotecnologia. Por outro lado, o efeito das capacidades de gestão nos resultados de inovação da empresa é muito limitado e moderado. Por fim, e diferentemente da evidência predominante anterior, não foi encontrada relação entre as capacidades de absorção das empresas e seu desempenho inovador.
Originalidade/valor
O estudo fornece novas contribuições analíticas e empíricas que levam a uma reflexão sobre as oportunidades que as empresas mexicanas têm para se inserir nos mercados globais de média e alta tecnologia no setor de biotecnologia. A detecção de oportunidades tecnológicas exploráveis pode fornecer à biotecnologia mexicana recursos diretos para desenvolver novas políticas industriais e de inovação e ajustar as atuais políticas não organizadas.
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Biotecnologia, Capacidades, Inovaçño, Desempenho da empresa, Políticas setoriais
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In their well-known contribution to the “varieties of capitalism” debate, Peter Hall and David Soskice (2001, Ch. 1) highlight the distinction between a “coordinated market…
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In their well-known contribution to the “varieties of capitalism” debate, Peter Hall and David Soskice (2001, Ch. 1) highlight the distinction between a “coordinated market economy” as exemplified by Germany and a “liberal market economy” as exemplified by the United States. Under the heading, “Liberal Market Economies: The American Case”, Hall and Soskice (2001, p. 27), argue:Liberal market economies can secure levels of overall economic performance as high as those of coordinated market economies, but they do so quite differently. In LMEs, firms rely more heavily on market relations to resolve the coordination problems that firms in CMEs address more often via forms of non-market coordination that entail collaboration and strategic interaction. In each of the major spheres of firm endeavor, competitive markets are more robust and there is less institutional support for non-market forms of coordination.