Pub Date : 2024-03-19DOI: 10.1142/s1363919623500433
WENDY MUTIMBWA MUTABELEZI, TEBOGO SETHIBE
To enhance competitiveness, organisations should excel in adopting new business processes and ensuring the successful implementation of innovative projects. This study examined the impact of transformational, transactional, and entrepreneurial leadership styles on the innovation process, with a focus on employee innovative behaviour and the climate for innovation as mediating factors. A total of 303 participants from three organisations in the financial services sector (banking and insurance) in Namibia took part in the study.
The findings suggest that employing transactional and entrepreneurial leadership styles proves beneficial for fostering innovation within organisations. Specifically, entrepreneurial leadership demonstrates positive effects on both employees’ innovative behaviour and the establishment of an innovation-friendly climate. The study reveals that a conducive climate for innovation significantly contributes to overall innovation. Moreover, the results indicate that only the climate for innovation serves as a significant mediator in the relationship between transactional leadership and the innovation process, as well as between entrepreneurial leadership and the innovation process.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-05DOI: 10.1142/s136391962350038x
F. Paula, T. D. MACEDO-SOARES
Most authors agree that alliance portfolio diversity (APD) has an inverted U-shaped influence on innovation performance and is particularly important for firms with a high absorptive capacity (AC), which moderates this relationship positively. However, the reality of developing countries with weaker national innovation systems (NIS) and firms with lower AC may influence these relationships. To test these hypotheses in such a context, we tested a longitudinal structural model in a sample of 1,237 Colombian manufacturing firms. The results indicated that, in a developing country context, APD at the appropriate level is especially relevant for firms with low AC, even the letter maintaining the positive moderation effect on the inverted U-shaped relationship of the former with innovation. Besides, the longitudinal structural equation modelling (SEM) chosen to conduct the analysis mitigates endogeneity issues presented in more commonly used cross-section analyses.
大多数学者都认为，联盟组合多样性（APD）对创新绩效具有倒 U 型的影响，对吸收能力（AC）较高的企业尤为重要，而吸收能力（AC）会对这种关系起到积极的调节作用。然而，国家创新体系（NIS）较弱的发展中国家和吸收能力较低的企业可能会影响这些关系。为了在这样的背景下检验这些假设，我们以 1237 家哥伦比亚制造企业为样本，对纵向结构模型进行了检验。结果表明，在发展中国家，适当水平的APD对AC较低的企业尤为重要，甚至信对前者与创新的倒U型关系保持正向调节作用。此外，采用纵向结构方程模型（SEM）进行分析，可以缓解更常用的横截面分析中出现的内生性问题。
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Pub Date : 2023-12-22DOI: 10.1142/s1363919623500354
Chandra S. Mishra
The greater the firm-specific risk, the more valuable are the innovative opportunities underlying the growth options, and the greater the innovation rent. We examine whether firm-specific risk drives the firm’s innovation rent. We find that the firm-specific risk positively moderates the association between firm innovativeness and firm surplus. Innovation rent is the change in firm surplus per unit change in the knowledge capital (accumulated R&D stock). The firm surplus is the excess market value of the firm over shareholder expectations. We further examine whether the growth options embedded in the firm’s assets mediate the association between firm innovativeness and firm surplus. Growth options positively mediate the association between knowledge capital and firm surplus. The firm-specific risk enhances the value of innovative opportunities underlying the firm’s growth options that are exercised such that the firm earns a value surplus. Our results are consistent with the strategic rent model and emerging behavioural theory.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.1142/s1363919623400029
Steffen Kinkel, Sebastian Beiner, Dominique René Fara
Digital transformation is confronting traditional industrial companies with the challenge of not only optimising their internal processes, but also establishing entirely new, digital business models (DBM). In some cases, this requires different competences than in traditional business. In the AgilHybrid research project, a model of 20 key competences that are critical to the success of DBM development was developed. These competences can be bundled into the five areas of entrepreneurial capabilities, adaptability, agile capabilities, collaborative capabilities and digital capabilities. In a CATI survey of 200 German industrial companies, the relevance of the selected competences for DBM development was validated. A multivariate regression model reveals that in particular the equipment of the companies with digital competences as well as the use of agile development methods influence the probability that a company offers digital business models successfully on the market. These competences seem to contribute as important enablers to the dynamic capabilities of seizing and transforming in the context of developing new DBM.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-18DOI: 10.1142/s1363919623500330
Arsalan Safari, M. Parast, Ilijana Petrovska, O. Al-kwifi
The literature on corporate entrepreneurship has discussed the role of entrepreneurship orientation (EO) and self-efficacy in enhancing venture creation and a firm’s growth. In contrast, the effect of EO and self-efficacy on project performance outcomes has been relatively overlooked. In this study, we examine how an individual’s entrepreneurship orientation (IEO), entrepreneurship self-efficacy (ESE), and entrepreneurship management skills (EMS) affect both entrepreneurship projects and non-entrepreneurship projects. Using a sample of 308 observations, our analyses reveal that while various dimensions of IEO, ESE, and EMS can significantly influence project performance, the effect is more pronounced for non-entrepreneurship projects. Furthermore, in all three ESE dimensions, we find that the effect on individual project performance is almost double the effect on team project performance. This implies that individuals consider their efforts and contributions to be more significant than the collective team efforts when completing a group project. This study contributes to the literature by providing a new perspective to assess the effect of each dimension of IEO, ESE, and EMS at both the individual level and the project level. For students, entrepreneurs, and policymakers, this study presents important insights into two areas: the influence of entrepreneurship education on an individual’s performance on individual projects and team projects; and how entrepreneurial characteristics can be nurtured to produce good entrepreneurs and project managers. This is especially significant for emerging countries, where entrepreneurship education plays a key role in supporting economic transition, promoting the private sector, and encouraging the establishment of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
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Pub Date : 2023-12-16DOI: 10.1142/s1363919623500329
Osamu Suzuki
One remaining challenge in research on variable risk-taking by organizations is to reconcile mutually contradictory arguments on associations between organisational slack and organisational degree of risk-taking. We focus on moderating (rather than moderated) influences of organisational slack to argue that slack governs the strength of the association by unleashing the discretion of top management teams (TMTs), while the direction of the association depends on the characteristics of TMTs. Accordingly, as slack increases, organizations led by TMTs characterised by high-risk preference pursue risky search initiatives more aggressively, while decisions by TMTs characterised with low-risk preference grow more risk-avoiding. Our empirical examination of the Japanese electronic appliances industry from 2006 to 2017 empirically supports the argument with endogeneity robust inference on the coefficient of the slack variable. Organisational slack alleviates concerns over constraints on decisions, thereby unleashing discretion to pursue as well as to avoid search risk-taking.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-07DOI: 10.1142/s1363919623500342
Mario Schaarschmidt, Eustathios Sainidis, Thomas Matheus, Daniel EL KOHLI
This paper examines the antecedents and consequences of a firm’s absorptive capacity for innovation management control (ACIMC). Absorptive capacity, defined as an organisational-level capability to identify, assimilate, and exploit external knowledge, has predominantly been applied to technological knowledge. In this paper, we focus on external knowledge in relation to innovation management control (IMC), a management task that combines innovation management and management control. In addition, we apply our conceptualisation of ACIMC to the development of hybrid offerings, consisting of product and service components. Results of a survey among companies in Europe support our hypotheses that ACIMC (with four dimensions: Acquisition, assimilation, transformation, and exploitation) indirectly influences financial and innovation performance through hybrid product-service IMC. This paper ends with recommendations for innovation management practice and theory.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-15DOI: 10.1142/s1363919623400017
V. M. S. Lima, A. Mention, J. Dąbrowska
Aiming at fostering digital innovation for value creation, incumbent firms have largely adopted dedicated and separated structures for innovation and new business creation. While these structures have been successful in enabling exploration, bringing digital innovations to scale remains a challenge. By employing a qualitative case study of an incumbent bank, with individual projects as the unit of analysis, this study investigates the practices and challenges of transitioning digital innovations developed in separate structures to operationalisation or commercialisation in the core of the organisation, a shift essential for enabling innovations to reach scale. Our key contribution is in presenting a dual business-technology transition-to-scale model defined by the intensity of integration and explaining how innovation managers deviate from this model by adopting coping actions aimed at overcoming innovation and organisational transition challenges. With this, we further highlight the challenges of managing an aligned dual business-technology transition in the context of an incumbent firm undergoing digital transformation.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-09DOI: 10.1142/s1363919623400078
BEN ROBAEYST, NELL VAN HANSEWYCK, BASTIAAN BACCARNE, DIMITRI SCHUURMAN
Over the past decade, Open Innovation (OI) literature has extended its scope beyond strictly economical contexts to the context of societal value creation. This has given rise to the notion of distributed knowledge as a driver for sustainable innovation development. Over the past 15 years, the concept of Urban Living Labs (ULLs) has gained popularity to put social OI into practice. Hence, this concept is often applied in urban environments to support transition processes that try to tackle so-called wicked problems. However, a fuzzy understanding of this ULL concept still exists, due to an unclear understanding of its value creation mechanics. Therefore, this paper aims to both conceptualise and gain a better understanding of how ULLs are instrumentalised and create value. This is studied from the perspective of “ecosystem stakeholders” that participate in ULL projects. These insights are obtained through a case study with a multimethod qualitative research approach. The main data sources are a series of 20 semi-structured key-informant interviews, four focus groups, and participatory observation. The results show that the value creation for the participating stakeholders can be summarised in two main clusters: (1) the ULL as a way to build and strengthen the capacities of participating stakeholders; and (2) the ULL as a way to facilitate purpose driven fulfilment in urban transition processes.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-04DOI: 10.1142/s1363919623400030
JENS KOLB, SARAH LEIBLE, LARA MASLOWSKI, DANIEL SCHALLMO
Companies now face two challenges in order to remain innovative and competitive. The first is to digitally transform their production, products and services. Second is to address sustainability topics to reduce their global footprint. However, introducing new digital technologies may contradict company’s sustainability goals, for example, introducing a digital technology improves assembly lines, but increases energy consumption. This paper introduces a sustainability-enabled assessment framework for digital technologies (SAFT) supporting companies to choose the best digital technology for them. The SAFT framework assesses digital technologies in terms of sustainability factors as well as crucial aspects such as technology potential, and the fit to the company. The paper concludes with a case study in which the SAFT framework is applied to a company in the construction industry.
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