Pub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-12-08DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103454
Henry Kofi Mensah , Ahmed Agyapong , Gilbert Anyowuo Okyere , Osman Abubakari Sadik , Emmanuel Kweku Quansah , Klenam Korbla Ledi , Kidusane Ejigu Berihun
This study draws on the dynamic capability theory complemented by the resource-based view to examine how technological capability drives supply chain value creation via circular economy practices and when this effect is enhanced by organizational climate. We test our model using survey data from 310 manufacturing SMEs in Ghana. The results demonstrated that circular economy practices fully mediate the relationship between technological capability and supply chain value creation. Also, organizational climate moderates the indirect relationship between technological capabilities and supply chain value creation through circular economy practices. The findings offer key theoretical and managerial implications for scholars and practitioners to enhance value creation.
{"title":"Technological capabilities and supply chain value creation; exploring the roles of circular economy practices and organizational climate","authors":"Henry Kofi Mensah , Ahmed Agyapong , Gilbert Anyowuo Okyere , Osman Abubakari Sadik , Emmanuel Kweku Quansah , Klenam Korbla Ledi , Kidusane Ejigu Berihun","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103454","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103454","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study draws on the dynamic capability theory complemented by the resource-based view to examine how technological capability drives supply chain value creation via circular economy practices and when this effect is enhanced by organizational climate. We test our model using survey data from 310 manufacturing SMEs in Ghana. The results demonstrated that circular economy practices fully mediate the relationship between technological capability and supply chain value creation. Also, organizational climate moderates the indirect relationship between technological capabilities and supply chain value creation through circular economy practices. The findings offer key theoretical and managerial implications for scholars and practitioners to enhance value creation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":"150 ","pages":"Article 103454"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145736843","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 : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-12-18DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103436
Zhengwei Li , Wenxin Li , Weize Huang , Jingjiang Liu
Despite the growing significance of team creativity in fostering corporate innovation, its underlying generative mechanisms remain insufficiently explored. This gap limits our understanding of when and how crises experienced by R&D teams either stimulate or inhibit their creativity. Drawing on team adaptation theory, this study seeks to clarify the contradictory effects of R&D team-experienced crises on creativity by identifying two distinct team-level mediating processes: team silence and team reflection. Furthermore, by integrating regulatory focus theory, we uncover critical boundary conditions. Specifically, we argue that R&D team-experienced crises reduce creativity through increased team silence when leaders adopt a predominant trait prevention focus. In contrast, they enhance creativity through increased team reflection when leaders adopt a predominant trait promotion focus. Our research hypotheses are empirically supported by multi-source data derived from 544 questionnaires, including responses from 136 leaders and 408 members of R&D teams. A supplementary experiment was conducted to validate further the causal relationship underlying our hypotheses. These findings provide nuanced insights into the paradoxical effects of crises on R&D team creativity, offering a deeper understanding of the conditions under which crises can either stifle or foster innovation.
{"title":"Unraveling the double-edged sword: When and how R&D team-experienced crises foster or hinder team creativity","authors":"Zhengwei Li , Wenxin Li , Weize Huang , Jingjiang Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103436","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103436","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite the growing significance of team creativity in fostering corporate innovation, its underlying generative mechanisms remain insufficiently explored. This gap limits our understanding of when and how crises experienced by R&D teams either stimulate or inhibit their creativity. Drawing on team adaptation theory, this study seeks to clarify the contradictory effects of R&D team-experienced crises on creativity by identifying two distinct team-level mediating processes: team silence and team reflection. Furthermore, by integrating regulatory focus theory, we uncover critical boundary conditions. Specifically, we argue that R&D team-experienced crises reduce creativity through increased team silence when leaders adopt a predominant trait prevention focus. In contrast, they enhance creativity through increased team reflection when leaders adopt a predominant trait promotion focus. Our research hypotheses are empirically supported by multi-source data derived from 544 questionnaires, including responses from 136 leaders and 408 members of R&D teams. A supplementary experiment was conducted to validate further the causal relationship underlying our hypotheses. These findings provide nuanced insights into the paradoxical effects of crises on R&D team creativity, offering a deeper understanding of the conditions under which crises can either stifle or foster innovation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":"150 ","pages":"Article 103436"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145789807","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 : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-10-14DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103386
Luiza Stein , Natasha Evers , Colm O'Gorman
This paper explores the role of institutional entrepreneurship in developing Digital Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (DEE). With much of the literature on DEE focused on organisational-level analysis, there is a need for further research that includes system-level analysis, and specifically research that explores how ecosystem actors support Digital Entrepreneurship (DE) by facilitating adaptation of the institutional environment. We analyse a single longitudinal case study of the Danish FinTech ecosystem, a DEE that developed in the context of a traditional, highly regulated industry and a turbulent global FinTech scene. FinTech DEEs have emerged across the world as a response to a global reshaping of financial institutions that resulted from the global financial crisis and ongoing technological shifts. We use this case to explore two questions: “what institutional forces influence the development of the DEE?”, and “how do institutional entrepreneurs facilitate institutional changes to develop a DEE?” We find the development of the Danish FinTech DEE was enabled and shaped by changes to institutions that support: (i) new collaboration dynamics and mechanisms, particularly between incumbent firms and start-ups, (ii) adaptations to the regulatory framework, and (iii) the development of global connections. Institutional change required collective efforts, depending on different institutional entrepreneurs at different times. Neutral leadership of institutional entrepreneurs became crucial for institutional change. Furthermore, both system and organisation-level agencies influenced institutional change during the development of the DEE. As such, this study contributes to a better understanding of DEE development and, therefore, the conditions that foster DE in the FinTech field.
{"title":"Fostering conditions for digital entrepreneurship: The role of institutional entrepreneurs in driving FinTech ecosystem development","authors":"Luiza Stein , Natasha Evers , Colm O'Gorman","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103386","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103386","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores the role of institutional entrepreneurship in developing Digital Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (DEE). With much of the literature on DEE focused on organisational-level analysis, there is a need for further research that includes system-level analysis, and specifically research that explores how ecosystem actors support Digital Entrepreneurship (DE) by facilitating adaptation of the institutional environment. We analyse a single longitudinal case study of the Danish FinTech ecosystem, a DEE that developed in the context of a traditional, highly regulated industry and a turbulent global FinTech scene. FinTech DEEs have emerged across the world as a response to a global reshaping of financial institutions that resulted from the global financial crisis and ongoing technological shifts. We use this case to explore two questions: “what institutional forces influence the development of the DEE?”, and “how do institutional entrepreneurs facilitate institutional changes to develop a DEE?” We find the development of the Danish FinTech DEE was enabled and shaped by changes to institutions that support: (i) new collaboration dynamics and mechanisms, particularly between incumbent firms and start-ups, (ii) adaptations to the regulatory framework, and (iii) the development of global connections. Institutional change required collective efforts, depending on different institutional entrepreneurs at different times. Neutral leadership of institutional entrepreneurs became crucial for institutional change. Furthermore, both system and organisation-level agencies influenced institutional change during the development of the DEE. As such, this study contributes to a better understanding of DEE development and, therefore, the conditions that foster DE in the FinTech field.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":"150 ","pages":"Article 103386"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145322058","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 : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-09-27DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103378
Yosr Ammar , Julien Cloarec , Bertrand Valiorgue
As technological advancements, artificial intelligence (AI), and climate change become increasingly intertwined, energy efficiency has emerged as a crucial issue for organizations and public authorities. This research examines how firms can align financial and environmental goals to attract diverse investor groups, focusing on AI-driven energy efficiency strategies. To do so, we use the Economies of Worth framework and explore how investors respond to energy strategies framed by financial or environmental motivations (i.e., market or green worlds), depending on the type of AI adopted and the nature of compliance. Across four experimental studies with 1,500 investors, we find that environmental motivations can reduce investor willingness to invest, mediated by perceived energy efficiency. However, AI implementation and certification mechanisms act as critical boundary conditions that can legitimize environmental strategies and enable compromise between market and green logics. Specifically, coupling environmental motivations with AI for energy efficiency and third-party certification leads to higher investor willingness to invest. This study contributes to sustainable investment research by highlighting the critical role of AI and compliance in building hybrid justifications that can facilitate alignment between environmental and financial priorities in investor decision-making.
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Pub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-12-02DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103430
Christian M. Lerch , Angela Jäger , Andrea Bikfalvi , Cornelius Moll
Giving rise to both incremental and radical changes in manufacturing, digitalization is attracting major interest in servitization research. The diffusion of technologies and their adoption in business settings triggers simultaneous and interconnected phenomena that call for continuous examination of digital servitization, digital platforms, and digital production technologies in the context of Industry 4.0. While these three concepts have been conceptually assumed and qualitatively demonstrated as being interconnected, less is known about the effect of digital servitization on platforms and Industry 4.0, both key elements of the (digital) value creation sphere. This study aims to fill this gap by demonstrating whether and the degree to which digital servitization impacts manufacturers’ platformization process and Industry 4.0 orientation. Using a large-scale representative data set from the German manufacturing sector containing firm-level data from 1256 manufacturers, our results show that a firm needs to establish various digital servitization capabilities, such as digital customer integration, data analytics, and advanced service offerings, before effects on digital platforms and Industry 4.0 can be evidenced. Moreover, our analysis allows conclusions to be drawn about the degree to which the three facets of digital servitization - scope, depth and extent - act as drivers of platformization and Industry 4.0.
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Pub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-10-22DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103393
Pinar Ozturk , Yue Han , Jie Ren
Finding creative solutions to large-scale and complex problems, such as societal challenges, is often hard. Crowdsourcing has emerged as a valuable tool for such challenges, using diverse perspectives from general society to enhance creative problem-solving. The componential theory of creativity highlights creativity-related processes and domain knowledge as key components of creative output. Drawing from this theory, we examine how creativity support architectures and levels of task-knowledge intensity influence crowd creativity in crowdsourcing contexts.
Through an online experiment, we compared two support architectures, remixing and external stimuli: crowd members were presented with ideas previously generated by other participants to foster a collective creative process. Our findings suggest that remixing prompts higher levels of crowd creativity than external stimuli. Further, the crowd exhibits greater creativity when working on low knowledge-intensity tasks, compared with high knowledge-intensity tasks, whereas the influence of support architectures on crowd creativity remains significant across knowledge-intensity levels.
This study contributes to the crowdsourcing literature by applying the componential theory of creativity to understand how creativity support architectures interact with task-knowledge intensity to affect crowd creative output. In addition, practical implications for harnessing collective intelligence to address societal challenges and other large-scale, complex problems are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-10-22DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103395
Jian Zhang , Ziming Yu , Wenting Liang , Xiaojie Men , Xuanting Ye , Ximing Yin
The varying firm life cycle stages represent a critical factor that should be accounted when evaluating the effects of innovation policy instrument mixes. Building on firm life cycle theory, this study employs the Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood estimator with high-dimensional fixed effects (PPML-HDFE) to explore the impact of three supply and demand side innovation policy instruments (innovation subsidies, tax incentives, and public innovation procurement) and their mixes on firm innovation across different life cycle stages. The results reveal that, overall, the supply-demand policy instruments mixes outperform individual instruments in incentivizing innovation, particularly for high-tech manufacturing firms. Furthermore, mature-stage firms demonstrate superior capacity to leverage policy support, achieving the most significant innovation gains, regardless of the specific form of instruments or their mixes. The findings suggest policymakers should transcend conventional thinking and policy biases, placing particular emphasis on firms' developmental stages, practical needs, and comparative advantages. Policy formulation should transform from a "one-size-fits-all" approach to differentiated and targeted strategies, thereby enhancing the actual empowerment effect of policies on innovation development.
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Pub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-12-11DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103460
Argyro Almpanopoulou , Satu Vesin , Pia Adibe, Kirsimarja Blomqvist
To date, the literature has scarcely addressed the intricacies surrounding the creation of boundary spaces – novel organisational models that operate at the intersection of overlapping spheres or sectoral domains – and the microinteraction dynamics involved in initiating such processes. To address this shortcoming, we conducted a single case study of a multistakeholder initiative that engages in creating a boundary space. We adopt a microprocessual view and take a closer look at the focal individuals' boundary work, interactions, sayings and doings, and the emotions triggered by the process. The findings offer insights into the tensions underlying the creation of boundary spaces and individuals’ performance of competitive, collaborative and configurational boundary work to resolve emerging tensions. Through our methodological choice of narrative analysis and ethnodrama, we show how the different embedded voices and meaningful silences in the creation process instantiate temporary and repetitive turns of boundary work, suspension and delay. We interpret these turns as both the result of the tensions and an explanation for why the tensions are not resolved.
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Pub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-12-03DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103437
Xiaohua Li , Jizhen Li
Technology transfer is a critical driver of regional economic development. This paper investigates how teacher-student co-creation effectively bridges the knowledge gap between academia and industry. Drawing on ten academic spin-off teams from diverse sectors, we explore the mechanisms that overcome knowledge transfer barriers. Our findings demonstrate that teacher-student co-creation enhances knowledge transfer between academia and industry through the active involvement of teachers, students, and academic spin-offs. We identify three mechanisms underlying this process: intermediary bridging, hybrid spaces, and innovation ecosystems. This study proposes a team-level hybrid model to bridge the knowledge gap between academia and industry and extend knowledge transfer theory by exploring how teacher-student co-creation integrates knowledge creators with transmitter while offering a shared space to transfer tacit knowledge. These insights are valuable for emerging countries with weak institutions and provide practical implications for organizing novel forms of intermediaries.
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