Pub Date : 2022-09-19DOI: 10.1080/13662716.2022.2124906
J. Knoben, Daniël Speldekamp, Harm Hulshof
ABSTRACT It is well-established that firms leverage both internal and external resources for their innovation activities. Even though the role of agglomeration economies in shaping the external resources available to firms has been particularly well-studied it is still unclear whether it is diversity or specialisation within agglomerations that drives firm innovativeness. We suggest that both do but that their relations with firm innovativeness are moderated by managerial industry experience. Using data from four South-East Asian economies we find that managers with more industry experience are better able to make the most of where they are, leveraging the opportunities afforded by their geographic environment. This finding is most pronounced in rural areas where firms with inexperienced managers almost never innovate, whereas half of the firms with experienced managers do. This suggests that future agglomeration research should be attentive to firm-level idiosyncrasies.
{"title":"Managing where you are: agglomeration economies, managerial industry experience and innovation in South-East Asia","authors":"J. Knoben, Daniël Speldekamp, Harm Hulshof","doi":"10.1080/13662716.2022.2124906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2022.2124906","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT It is well-established that firms leverage both internal and external resources for their innovation activities. Even though the role of agglomeration economies in shaping the external resources available to firms has been particularly well-studied it is still unclear whether it is diversity or specialisation within agglomerations that drives firm innovativeness. We suggest that both do but that their relations with firm innovativeness are moderated by managerial industry experience. Using data from four South-East Asian economies we find that managers with more industry experience are better able to make the most of where they are, leveraging the opportunities afforded by their geographic environment. This finding is most pronounced in rural areas where firms with inexperienced managers almost never innovate, whereas half of the firms with experienced managers do. This suggests that future agglomeration research should be attentive to firm-level idiosyncrasies.","PeriodicalId":13585,"journal":{"name":"Industry and Innovation","volume":"30 1","pages":"311 - 335"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2022-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42071379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-12DOI: 10.1080/13662716.2022.2123307
Bernhard Lingens, Veronika Seeholzer, O. Gassmann
ABSTRACT Ecosystems are one of the major trends today. They are based on complementarities, which can take the form of supermodularity or uniqueness and appear on both production and consumption side. Different configurations of complementarity lead to different characteristics of ecosystems with different implications. But which configuration of complementarities is beneficial in a given setting and what are the resulting consequences? We study emerging ecosystems driven by the respective orchestrator. Based on a multiple-case study, we show how and why orchestrators are leveraging different configurations of complementarities depending on, amongst others, competition on ecosystem or value proposition level and uncertainty and the resulting challenges for the orchestrator. These insights provide researchers with a better understanding of the basic mechanics of ecosystems and explain why certain types and structures of ecosystems are more likely to be seen in specific environments. For managers, it helps to sketch the development paths for own ecosystems.
{"title":"The architecture of innovation: how firms configure different types of complementarities in emerging ecosystems","authors":"Bernhard Lingens, Veronika Seeholzer, O. Gassmann","doi":"10.1080/13662716.2022.2123307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2022.2123307","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Ecosystems are one of the major trends today. They are based on complementarities, which can take the form of supermodularity or uniqueness and appear on both production and consumption side. Different configurations of complementarity lead to different characteristics of ecosystems with different implications. But which configuration of complementarities is beneficial in a given setting and what are the resulting consequences? We study emerging ecosystems driven by the respective orchestrator. Based on a multiple-case study, we show how and why orchestrators are leveraging different configurations of complementarities depending on, amongst others, competition on ecosystem or value proposition level and uncertainty and the resulting challenges for the orchestrator. These insights provide researchers with a better understanding of the basic mechanics of ecosystems and explain why certain types and structures of ecosystems are more likely to be seen in specific environments. For managers, it helps to sketch the development paths for own ecosystems.","PeriodicalId":13585,"journal":{"name":"Industry and Innovation","volume":"29 1","pages":"1108 - 1139"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2022-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42925918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT The present empirical study investigated the impacts of automation technology on employment at the firm level in Dongguan, China. Results of propensity score matching (PSM) and difference-in-difference (DID) modelling show that automation technology increases the total employment as well as employment associated with workers at all skill levels of firms, indicating that the productivity effect is stronger than the displacement effect in manufacturing firms. Furthermore, automation technology has led to the skill upgrading of employment composition, with the proportion of high-skilled labour increasing and low-skilled labour decreasing. Moreover, automation can increase labour turnover in some PSM scenarios but reduce local labour share. Automation technology also has a lasting effect on employment size and local labour share, while its impact on employment skill composition lasts only three years. In addition, automation technology substantially affects the employment composition of labour-intensive, foreign-invested firms and firms older than six years.
{"title":"Automation, firm employment and skill upgrading: firm-level evidence from China","authors":"Xiaozhen Qin, Weipan Xu, Haohui Chen, Jiawei Zhong, Yifei Sun, Xun Li","doi":"10.1080/13662716.2022.2122411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2022.2122411","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The present empirical study investigated the impacts of automation technology on employment at the firm level in Dongguan, China. Results of propensity score matching (PSM) and difference-in-difference (DID) modelling show that automation technology increases the total employment as well as employment associated with workers at all skill levels of firms, indicating that the productivity effect is stronger than the displacement effect in manufacturing firms. Furthermore, automation technology has led to the skill upgrading of employment composition, with the proportion of high-skilled labour increasing and low-skilled labour decreasing. Moreover, automation can increase labour turnover in some PSM scenarios but reduce local labour share. Automation technology also has a lasting effect on employment size and local labour share, while its impact on employment skill composition lasts only three years. In addition, automation technology substantially affects the employment composition of labour-intensive, foreign-invested firms and firms older than six years.","PeriodicalId":13585,"journal":{"name":"Industry and Innovation","volume":"29 1","pages":"1075 - 1107"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2022-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49180631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-06DOI: 10.1080/13662716.2022.2109455
F. Huber, Alan J. Ponce, Francesco Rentocchini, T. Wainwright
ABSTRACT Lately, Open Data (OD) has been promoted by governments around the world as a resource to accelerate innovation within entrepreneurial ventures . However,it remains unclear to what extent OD drives innovative entrepreneurship. This paper sheds light on this open question by providing novel empirical evidence on the relationship between OD publishing and (digital) entrepreneurship at the country-level. We draw upon a longitudinal dataset comprising 90 countries observed over the period 2013–2016. We find a significant and positive association between OD publishing and entrepreneurship at the country level. The results also show that OD publishing and entrepreneurship is strong in countries with high institutional quality. We argue that publishing OD is not sufficient to improve innovative entrepreneurship alone, so states need to move beyond a focus on OD initiatives and promotion, to focus on a broader set of policy initiatives that promote good governance.
{"title":"The wealth of (Open Data) nations? Open government data, country-level institutions and entrepreneurial activity","authors":"F. Huber, Alan J. Ponce, Francesco Rentocchini, T. Wainwright","doi":"10.1080/13662716.2022.2109455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2022.2109455","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Lately, Open Data (OD) has been promoted by governments around the world as a resource to accelerate innovation within entrepreneurial ventures . However,it remains unclear to what extent OD drives innovative entrepreneurship. This paper sheds light on this open question by providing novel empirical evidence on the relationship between OD publishing and (digital) entrepreneurship at the country-level. We draw upon a longitudinal dataset comprising 90 countries observed over the period 2013–2016. We find a significant and positive association between OD publishing and entrepreneurship at the country level. The results also show that OD publishing and entrepreneurship is strong in countries with high institutional quality. We argue that publishing OD is not sufficient to improve innovative entrepreneurship alone, so states need to move beyond a focus on OD initiatives and promotion, to focus on a broader set of policy initiatives that promote good governance.","PeriodicalId":13585,"journal":{"name":"Industry and Innovation","volume":"29 1","pages":"992 - 1023"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2022-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42775120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-05DOI: 10.1080/13662716.2022.2114318
Byungchae Jin, D. Kirsch
ABSTRACT While much of the institutional research has suggested and empirically demonstrated that institutional logics shape cognitive and behavioural patterns of actors, what still remains unclear is how scientists and engineers instantiate the conceptual elements of institutional logics in the context of the emergence of new technologies. We demonstrate the mechanisms through which scientists and engineers use the conceptual elements of multiple institutional logics in response to changes in external socio-economic and political conditions to justify their own research activities. Our context is the forty-year search for alternatives to internal combustion within a leading international conference on electric and hybrid electric vehicles (EVS). Combining Computer-Aided Text Analysis (CATA) and inductive methods, we identify four distinct instantiation mechanisms – contextualising, spanning, appropriating, and conflating – that scientists and engineers searching for a successful alternative to internal combustion used to instantiate the institutional logics within which they were embedded.
{"title":"The search for alternatives to internal combustion: instantiation mechanisms of institutional logics among scientists and engineers","authors":"Byungchae Jin, D. Kirsch","doi":"10.1080/13662716.2022.2114318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2022.2114318","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While much of the institutional research has suggested and empirically demonstrated that institutional logics shape cognitive and behavioural patterns of actors, what still remains unclear is how scientists and engineers instantiate the conceptual elements of institutional logics in the context of the emergence of new technologies. We demonstrate the mechanisms through which scientists and engineers use the conceptual elements of multiple institutional logics in response to changes in external socio-economic and political conditions to justify their own research activities. Our context is the forty-year search for alternatives to internal combustion within a leading international conference on electric and hybrid electric vehicles (EVS). Combining Computer-Aided Text Analysis (CATA) and inductive methods, we identify four distinct instantiation mechanisms – contextualising, spanning, appropriating, and conflating – that scientists and engineers searching for a successful alternative to internal combustion used to instantiate the institutional logics within which they were embedded.","PeriodicalId":13585,"journal":{"name":"Industry and Innovation","volume":"29 1","pages":"1231 - 1262"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48799522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-26DOI: 10.1080/13662716.2022.2112396
M. Andersson, Anna Kusetogullari, Joakim Wernberg
ABSTRACT Software is at the core of digitalisation and is often claimed to play a central role in innovation and in shaping competition across industries and firms. There are yet few studies of the extent and nature of software development across firms. We employ a unique firm-level survey comprising 3,929 firms across Sweden to analyse the distribution and characteristics of firms that invest in software development and the orientation of their investments. The results confirm that software development activities are present in most industries, but heterogeneously distributed across firms. Internal software development is associated with innovation-oriented large firms in high-tech and knowledge-intensive industries, and is often affiliated with MNEs. The results suggest that software development is comparable to R&D investments and constitutes an example of digital innovation. This strengthens the value of studying software development activities to understand how firms invest in and build competitive advantage in the digitalised economy.
{"title":"Coding for intangible competitive advantage - mapping the distribution and characteristics of software-developing firms in the Swedish economy","authors":"M. Andersson, Anna Kusetogullari, Joakim Wernberg","doi":"10.1080/13662716.2022.2112396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2022.2112396","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Software is at the core of digitalisation and is often claimed to play a central role in innovation and in shaping competition across industries and firms. There are yet few studies of the extent and nature of software development across firms. We employ a unique firm-level survey comprising 3,929 firms across Sweden to analyse the distribution and characteristics of firms that invest in software development and the orientation of their investments. The results confirm that software development activities are present in most industries, but heterogeneously distributed across firms. Internal software development is associated with innovation-oriented large firms in high-tech and knowledge-intensive industries, and is often affiliated with MNEs. The results suggest that software development is comparable to R&D investments and constitutes an example of digital innovation. This strengthens the value of studying software development activities to understand how firms invest in and build competitive advantage in the digitalised economy.","PeriodicalId":13585,"journal":{"name":"Industry and Innovation","volume":"30 1","pages":"17 - 41"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47899990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-26DOI: 10.1080/13662716.2022.2109456
E. Cassetta, Ivano Dileo, M. Pini
ABSTRACT This paper analyses the relationships between eco-innovation and business performance by exploring the role of external collaborations as a potential factor explaining the persisting heterogeneity of economic effects of eco-innovation. Basing on a large survey of 3,000 Italian manufacturing firms, the study investigates to what extent collaborations with supply chain and quadruple helix actors, including public institutions, universities and civil society, contribute in sustaining firm’s growth by improving the effectiveness of different types of eco-innovations. We find that the relationship between eco-innovation and business performance is moderated by both supply-chain and quadruple helix collaborations. However, external collaborations with actors of the quadruple helix show a pronounced heterogeneity. While process eco-innovation may in particular benefit from establishing collaborations with public institutions, product eco-innovation relies more on interactions with civil society suggesting that market-driven factors still exert a main role in influencing the market success of this type of eco-innovation.
{"title":"Linking external collaborations, eco-innovation and sustainable growth. An empirical analysis on the Italian manufacturing firms","authors":"E. Cassetta, Ivano Dileo, M. Pini","doi":"10.1080/13662716.2022.2109456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2022.2109456","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper analyses the relationships between eco-innovation and business performance by exploring the role of external collaborations as a potential factor explaining the persisting heterogeneity of economic effects of eco-innovation. Basing on a large survey of 3,000 Italian manufacturing firms, the study investigates to what extent collaborations with supply chain and quadruple helix actors, including public institutions, universities and civil society, contribute in sustaining firm’s growth by improving the effectiveness of different types of eco-innovations. We find that the relationship between eco-innovation and business performance is moderated by both supply-chain and quadruple helix collaborations. However, external collaborations with actors of the quadruple helix show a pronounced heterogeneity. While process eco-innovation may in particular benefit from establishing collaborations with public institutions, product eco-innovation relies more on interactions with civil society suggesting that market-driven factors still exert a main role in influencing the market success of this type of eco-innovation.","PeriodicalId":13585,"journal":{"name":"Industry and Innovation","volume":"30 1","pages":"452 - 479"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46275308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-24DOI: 10.1080/13662716.2022.2109454
Therese Danley, Rikard H. Eriksson
ABSTRACT In the present paper, we analyse the association between the skill composition of young firms and the firms’ subsequent survival. This is made possible by means of a matched employer-employee dataset from Statistics Sweden on a cohort of firms that started between 2001 and 2003. Our findings show that, compared to firms that exit, the firms that survive at least until 2012 have teams with higher complementarity at the start, and successively increase their skill complementarity over time. Subsequent discrete time hazard models, controlling for several well-known determinants of firm longevity, show that complementarity plays a crucial role for firm survival. Higher skill synergy within firms, as compared to high degrees of substitutability, is associated with a lower conditional probability of failing. The role of skill complementarity is stable across different specifications and outweighs many other determinants of firm survival, such as starting size and experience of the founder.
{"title":"Co-Worker complementarities and new firm survival","authors":"Therese Danley, Rikard H. Eriksson","doi":"10.1080/13662716.2022.2109454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2022.2109454","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the present paper, we analyse the association between the skill composition of young firms and the firms’ subsequent survival. This is made possible by means of a matched employer-employee dataset from Statistics Sweden on a cohort of firms that started between 2001 and 2003. Our findings show that, compared to firms that exit, the firms that survive at least until 2012 have teams with higher complementarity at the start, and successively increase their skill complementarity over time. Subsequent discrete time hazard models, controlling for several well-known determinants of firm longevity, show that complementarity plays a crucial role for firm survival. Higher skill synergy within firms, as compared to high degrees of substitutability, is associated with a lower conditional probability of failing. The role of skill complementarity is stable across different specifications and outweighs many other determinants of firm survival, such as starting size and experience of the founder.","PeriodicalId":13585,"journal":{"name":"Industry and Innovation","volume":"29 1","pages":"969 - 991"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47665065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-30DOI: 10.1080/13662716.2022.2102462
Anja Leckel, Sophie Veilleux, F. Piller
ABSTRACT Distant search has evolved from the open innovation literature as an efficient mechanism to access external knowledge from heterogeneous fields of expertise. Despite its popularity and proven benefits, companies face multiple barriers to benefitting from distant search. In this study, we explore a local open innovation approach in which the spatial distance between solution-seeking firms and problem solvers was deliberately reduced to combine the benefits of distant search with those of spatial proximity. We studied eight local open innovation events and found that spatial proximity supports the implementation of open innovation, overcoming challenges of initiating organisational change towards openness, establishing trusting relationships for knowledge exchange, and successfully applying the external knowledge. By identifying social capital as the key success factor in local open innovation, our study contributes to the theoretical foundations of open innovation by showing how the dimensions of social capital enable key actions in each process phase.
{"title":"How spatial proximity facilitates distant search – a social capital perspective on local open innovation","authors":"Anja Leckel, Sophie Veilleux, F. Piller","doi":"10.1080/13662716.2022.2102462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2022.2102462","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Distant search has evolved from the open innovation literature as an efficient mechanism to access external knowledge from heterogeneous fields of expertise. Despite its popularity and proven benefits, companies face multiple barriers to benefitting from distant search. In this study, we explore a local open innovation approach in which the spatial distance between solution-seeking firms and problem solvers was deliberately reduced to combine the benefits of distant search with those of spatial proximity. We studied eight local open innovation events and found that spatial proximity supports the implementation of open innovation, overcoming challenges of initiating organisational change towards openness, establishing trusting relationships for knowledge exchange, and successfully applying the external knowledge. By identifying social capital as the key success factor in local open innovation, our study contributes to the theoretical foundations of open innovation by showing how the dimensions of social capital enable key actions in each process phase.","PeriodicalId":13585,"journal":{"name":"Industry and Innovation","volume":"29 1","pages":"899 - 926"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2022-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47466183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-22DOI: 10.1080/13662716.2022.2090319
Tatjana Bennat, R. Sternberg
ABSTRACT Little is known about how, and through which characteristics, CEO effects DUI mode innovation activities in SMEs. Thus, we connect the DUI mode concept with business management research and use data from 40 qualitative interviews in German non-R&D-based, but innovative SMEs. Applying the upper echelon concept as an analytical framework our results show that the CEO acts as an important moderator and mediator between DUI learning mechanism and innovation performance. In particular CEO’s values and cognitive base may help to increase innovation activities of the employees. Our paper is the first that empirically applies CEO’s psychological attributes of the upper-echelons concept to DUI innovations in non-R&D SMEs. We have developed a new version of the upper echelons model as well as hypotheses gained from the qualitative data analysis that are ready to be tested with quantitative procedures to improve the upper echelons theory concerning DUI-led innovation processes in SMEs.
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