This research explores the implications of innovation in traditional industries in response to the need to deploy digital technologies to revitalize mature economic sectors. Despite being essential to regional and national economies, traditional industries face challenges due to globalization and new technologies. Embracing modern technologies can enable such industries to respond to these challenges, thereby revitalizing mature economic sectors and creating opportunities for economic growth. This study emphasizes the value of working with local communities to preserve craft techniques and the role of innovations in vocational training covering business management and digital marketing. The study also emphasizes the importance of partnerships between traditional manufacturers and companies in modern industries and the creation of innovative products that combine advanced technologies with traditional manufacturing methods. Furthermore, it emphasizes the relevance of implementing green innovations and their impact on the sustainability of traditional industries. SmartPLS 4 software was used to perform partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The analysis provides detailed indications of how technological innovations can transform traditional industries. The results can be applied to support the adoption of innovative strategies to foster the development and modernization of traditional industries. The study has implications on many levels, from developing regional economies and improving the sustainability of traditional industries to creating opportunities for training and cross-sector collaboration.
{"title":"The implications of innovation in traditional industries: Revitalizing mature economic sectors","authors":"Alexandru-Mihai Bugheanu , Oana Pricopoaia , Camelia Madalina Beldiman , Ion Popa , Nicoleta Cristache , Dorin Iancu , Ioana Lazarescu","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2026.100959","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2026.100959","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This research explores the implications of innovation in traditional industries in response to the need to deploy digital technologies to revitalize mature economic sectors. Despite being essential to regional and national economies, traditional industries face challenges due to globalization and new technologies. Embracing modern technologies can enable such industries to respond to these challenges, thereby revitalizing mature economic sectors and creating opportunities for economic growth. This study emphasizes the value of working with local communities to preserve craft techniques and the role of innovations in vocational training covering business management and digital marketing. The study also emphasizes the importance of partnerships between traditional manufacturers and companies in modern industries and the creation of innovative products that combine advanced technologies with traditional manufacturing methods. Furthermore, it emphasizes the relevance of implementing green innovations and their impact on the sustainability of traditional industries. SmartPLS 4 software was used to perform partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The analysis provides detailed indications of how technological innovations can transform traditional industries. The results can be applied to support the adoption of innovative strategies to foster the development and modernization of traditional industries. The study has implications on many levels, from developing regional economies and improving the sustainability of traditional industries to creating opportunities for training and cross-sector collaboration.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"14 ","pages":"Article 100959"},"PeriodicalIF":15.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146072149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-28DOI: 10.1016/j.jik.2026.100955
Roberto Cerchione, Renato Passaro, Ivana Quinto, Viviana Sicardi
In a context marked by environmental challenges and the urgency for sustainable innovation, circular start-ups (CSUs) are recognised for their ability to drive organisational, cultural, and systemic change through adaptive and collaborative approaches. This research examines the crucial function of CSUs in promoting sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems (SEEs) through an exploratory multiple case study analysis of Italian start-ups across several sectors. Empirical evidence was obtained mainly through primary data, while additional secondary sources were included to strengthen the contextual reliability of the study. The findings reveal that CSUs operate as dynamic agents capable of shaping open yet cohesive networks, leveraging digital technologies, and integrating sustainability principles across value chains. By employing self-organising structures, fostering cross-sectoral collaborations, and adhering to circular economy principles, these start-ups facilitate the dissemination of revolutionary business strategies and the evolution of entrepreneurial ecosystems into more resilient, inclusive, and regenerative systems.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-27DOI: 10.1016/j.jik.2026.100956
Chen Gao
Social enterprises are increasingly taking advantage of local collaborative workspaces (CWSs) in rural areas to access entrepreneurial resources. CWSs are vital supporters for social enterprises to thrive and amplify their impact on rural development. However, despite the critical functions of CWSs in the entrepreneurial ecosystem for social enterprises, there are significant disparities in the perceptions of essential resources between CWS operators and social entrepreneurs. These disparities may lead to inefficiencies in the programs and events set by CWSs aiming at promoting social entrepreneurship, as entrepreneurs may have different demands. Therefore, this divergence needs to be discovered and strategically addressed within CWSs and the broader ecosystem. This empirical study conducted in-depth interviews with four CWS managers and nine social entrepreneurs in Germany and Austria, using Socio-Technical Configuration Analysis to summarise the perceived critical resources, and interpreted the mismatches across entrepreneurial stages. The analysis revealed what social entrepreneurs demand and where CWSs should improve across development stages. The findings justify tailored strategies aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of CWSs and strengthening collaboration with relevant actors. This actor-centric approach, combined with ecosystem and network thinking, also elucidates necessary and contingent entrepreneurial resources and the uniqueness of the social entrepreneurial ecosystem in rural areas. Knowledge about the entrepreneurial ecosystem for social entrepreneurship will inform the promotional strategies of CWSs to achieve social innovation.
{"title":"Mismatch in perceptions and knowledge? Prominent entrepreneurial resources through collaborative workspaces for social entrepreneurs","authors":"Chen Gao","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2026.100956","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2026.100956","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Social enterprises are increasingly taking advantage of local collaborative workspaces (CWSs) in rural areas to access entrepreneurial resources. CWSs are vital supporters for social enterprises to thrive and amplify their impact on rural development. However, despite the critical functions of CWSs in the entrepreneurial ecosystem for social enterprises, there are significant disparities in the perceptions of essential resources between CWS operators and social entrepreneurs. These disparities may lead to inefficiencies in the programs and events set by CWSs aiming at promoting social entrepreneurship, as entrepreneurs may have different demands. Therefore, this divergence needs to be discovered and strategically addressed within CWSs and the broader ecosystem. This empirical study conducted in-depth interviews with four CWS managers and nine social entrepreneurs in Germany and Austria, using Socio-Technical Configuration Analysis to summarise the perceived critical resources, and interpreted the mismatches across entrepreneurial stages. The analysis revealed what social entrepreneurs demand and where CWSs should improve across development stages. The findings justify tailored strategies aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of CWSs and strengthening collaboration with relevant actors. This actor-centric approach, combined with ecosystem and network thinking, also elucidates necessary and contingent entrepreneurial resources and the uniqueness of the social entrepreneurial ecosystem in rural areas. Knowledge about the entrepreneurial ecosystem for social entrepreneurship will inform the promotional strategies of CWSs to achieve social innovation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"14 ","pages":"Article 100956"},"PeriodicalIF":15.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146056043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-26DOI: 10.1016/j.jik.2026.100941
Shuang Wang , Xueqing Zhang , Wei Xu , Jinlin Xu , Yudong Yao
As firms increasingly integrate AI into daily operations, managerial decision-making is significantly enhanced. Within the Stimuli-Organism-Response (SOR) framework, this study leverages AI to develop a decision-making paradigm that improves managerial responsiveness and decision precision in the context of fluctuating risks. Utilizing a tripartite methodology—supply chain modeling, panel regression, and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA)—we identified that AI reduces managers’ risk perception, providing a soothing effect on their decision-making. This effect stabilizes at approximately 14.72% after an initial decrease. These findings offer practical insights for managers to recalibrate their decision-making strategies, fostering management innovation and improving responses to evolving risk landscapes.
{"title":"No more bets: Enhancing risk-driven response through artificial intelligence","authors":"Shuang Wang , Xueqing Zhang , Wei Xu , Jinlin Xu , Yudong Yao","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2026.100941","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2026.100941","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As firms increasingly integrate AI into daily operations, managerial decision-making is significantly enhanced. Within the Stimuli-Organism-Response (SOR) framework, this study leverages AI to develop a decision-making paradigm that improves managerial responsiveness and decision precision in the context of fluctuating risks. Utilizing a tripartite methodology—supply chain modeling, panel regression, and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA)—we identified that AI reduces managers’ risk perception, providing a soothing effect on their decision-making. This effect stabilizes at approximately 14.72% after an initial decrease. These findings offer practical insights for managers to recalibrate their decision-making strategies, fostering management innovation and improving responses to evolving risk landscapes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"13 ","pages":"Article 100941"},"PeriodicalIF":15.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146048463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-23DOI: 10.1016/j.jik.2026.100952
Lulu Cheng , Nan Mei , Guodong Yi
The performance implications of digital transformation (DT) have been extensively scrutinized; however, few studies have focused on the mechanisms that boost performance. This study investigates the potential benefits of digital transformation (DT) from a value creation perspective within the value creation-appropriation (VCA) framework. Using panel data from listed firms in China, we show that DT improves firm performance by simultaneously enhancing innovation capability and reducing cost stickiness, two critical determinants of efficient value creation. We also identify customer concentration and relative capital intensity—key structural bases of value creation activities—as moderating these value creation mechanisms. Specifically, customer concentration weakens the positive effect of DT on innovation capability, while relative capital intensity strengthens both the innovation-enhancing and cost-reducing effects of DT. These findings contribute to existing literature on DT by revealing the underlying mechanisms linking digital initiatives to economic outcomes and identifying critical contingencies that shape this relationship.
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Today, organisations heavily depend on the data and information that flow through their interconnected systems. As a result of this dependence, a cyber threat can pose significant risks to the uninterrupted functioning of business operations, the unauthorised acquisition of sensitive information, and damage to the organisation's reputation. Cybersecurity awareness is now a top priority for organisations operating in a rapidly changing and highly interconnected environment. The debate regarding the optimal choice between managing cybersecurity practices internally and outsourcing is evolving in this context. Prior research has examined the advantages and disadvantages of both solutions. However, there is still a lack of research on the disparities in the efficacy of cybersecurity practices between internally managed and outsourced cybersecurity processes.
This research aims to fill this gap by proposing a survey questionnaire based on a five-point Likert scale and using a Mann-Whitney U test for the hypothesis analysis, analysing the efficacy of outsourcing and internal management in cybersecurity managerial protocol actions defined using the NIST model framework. The sample surveyed consists of 153 respondents with expertise in cybersecurity or IT practices. Furthermore, a binary logistic regression analysis was conducted to investigate how these practices significantly impact the choice of an outsourcing policy.
The results indicated notable disparities in the efficacy of internal management versus external cybersecurity outsourcing. Outsourcing is associated with higher perceived effectiveness of disciplinary procedures, whereas internal management is associated with higher perceived effectiveness in safeguarding log information and applying lessons learned to improve recovery strategies.
Beyond the operational dimension, the findings highlight how cybersecurity management serves as a catalyst for organisational learning and knowledge creation. Internal cybersecurity practices tend to foster experiential learning, codification of tacit knowledge, and continuous feedback loops that enhance resilience. Conversely, outsourcing models often promote managerial innovation through exposure to external expertise and the transfer of specialised knowledge across organisational boundaries.
With these results, this study offers a deeper understanding of cybersecurity management literature and provides a valuable resource for firms seeking to customise their cyber protocols to fit their organisational context.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-23DOI: 10.1016/j.jik.2026.100946
Siman Liu, Xin Gu
Digital transformation is imperative for sustainable manufacturing in the digital era. However, it heightens competition, creating a dilemma between overinvestment and underinvestment, with inevitable digital technology spillovers further complicating market dynamics. This study investigates a supply chain comprising a single supplier and two competing manufacturers. A dynamic game model is employed to analyze the impact of manufacturers’ digital transformation and the associated technology spillover effects on market competition, and to explore the optimal digital transformation strategies and responses of supply chain participants in a competitive environment. The findings are as follows. First, a manufacturer who leads in digital transformation can gain a competitive advantage and expand market share, and the follower can also recover lost share through digital transformation. However, specific digital transformation strategies should be determined based on the availability of financial resources, consumers’ value perception, and digital spillover. Second, digital transformation reshapes pricing strategies, as the transformed manufacturers can adopt digital value-oriented or cost-oriented competition depending on the market and technological conditions. Moreover, digital technology spillover exerts dual effects, weakening differentiation yet fostering win–win outcomes under moderate investment. Finally, suppliers in a monopolistic position adjust wholesale prices strategically and also benefit from the overall expansion of digitalized supply chains.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-23DOI: 10.1016/j.jik.2026.100948
Mohsin Ali Soomro , Ali Nawaz Khan , Shabir Hussain Khahro , Yasir Javed
The transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) is prompting construction organizations to redefine the concept of progress. However, the transition from digital capability to a higher-level sense of innovation is not inevitable. This research delves into the effect of AI capability on innovation-driven circular economy (CE) practices, providing evidence that technological advances alone do not drive change without an enabling cognitive and organizational environment. We adopt the lens of sociotechnical systems (STS) theory to conceptualize knowledge integration as the mechanism by which AI capability leads to CE practice adoption and cognitive rigidity as the inhibitor that reduces the positive effect of knowledge integration. Structural equation modeling and moderated mediation tests are applied to a survey of 414 construction professionals. Results suggest that AI capability promotes new ways of working and CE practices indirectly through its influence on knowledge integration; however, this influence is attenuated when cognitive rigidity hampers knowledge integration. The research extends STS theory into a domain of innovation management by integrating its cognitive, technical, and organizational elements. Our findings offer practical implications for industry practitioners, suggesting that building CE capacity goes beyond adopting digital technology; it also involves fostering cognitive agility and robust knowledge exchange mechanisms to enable those technologies to translate into innovation.
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In the context of virtual brand communities (VBCs) and based on social capital theory, this study investigates the effect of each dimension of tacit knowledge (TK) on firm innovation performance (FIP) and the mechanism of the digital dimension of virtual social capital driving the improvement of FIP through the TK transmission chain. This study also examines the moderating effect of social media capability (SMC) on the relationship between TK and FIP. This study uses 647 samples collected from Chinese firms and employs the structural equation model and hierarchical regression analysis to conduct empirical tests. The three dimensions of TK have significant positive effects on FIP, among which skill-based tacit knowledge is the most notable. Network embeddedness has a significant positive effect on cognitive TK and social TK. Digital trust only has a significant positive effect on social TK. Sharing cognition has a significant positive effect on the three dimensions of TK. Social media proficiency has a positive moderating effect on the three dimensions of TK and FIP. Conversely, social media agility only has a positive moderating effect on social TK and FIP. This study tries to divide the dimensions of TK in VBCs, while also clarifying the function path of virtual social capital to improve FIP through TK. Additionally, it explores the moderating effect of SMC on OBL and FIP. This study’s findings provide theoretical support and practical inspiration for firms to use TK from VBCs to improve FIP.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-21DOI: 10.1016/j.jik.2026.100949
Francesca Sanguineti, Costanza Baldrighi, Stefano Denicolai, Pietro Previtali
At what point does adding more office time start eroding, rather than enhancing, organizational performance? Although remote, hybrid, and on-site work have each been studied in isolation, managers still lack evidence-based guidance on the proper mix of these arrangements for organizational results. Existing research rarely connects work-configuration choices to firm-level performance, nor does it consider how digital capabilities might affect the balance. Guided by socio-technical systems (STS) theory, we analyze 27,451 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across 30 countries to explore whether different intensities of in-person work and their interplay with digital orientation translate into meaningful shifts in revenue growth. By focusing on organizational outcomes rather than individual productivity, our study seeks to uncover strategic inflection points that can inform organizational leaders seeking to navigate the complexities of the post-pandemic business landscape.
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