Pub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-04-11DOI: 10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101872
Wencong Ma , Zili Chen , Xiude Chen , Kaihua Chen
This study explores the impact of corruption punishment on the effectiveness of R&D subsidy policies, using panel data from China’s A-share listed companies, with a focus on both the quantity and quality of innovation. The findings reveal that: (1) Corruption punishment weakens the positive effect of R&D subsidies on innovation quantity, while enhancing their positive effect on innovation quality. (2) Corruption punishment increases the significance of R&D investment in securing R&D subsidies and curbs the influence of rent-seeking behavior on obtaining these subsidies. (3) Strengthening corruption punishment is likely to amplify the patent value effect of R&D subsidies.
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Pub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-05-31DOI: 10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101884
Yan Zhou , Hailin Lan, Haojun Wang
How firms in transition economies drive digital transformation amidst innovation challenges remains an important but underexplored question. Grounded in the premise of heuristic decision-making under bounded rationality, this study employs the behavioral theory of the firm to examine how innovation performance aspiration shortfall affects digital transformation and the moderating effect of resource allocation characteristics in transition economies. Using a sample of manufacturing firms listed on Chinese A-share market from 2008 to 2023, the results reveal that the impact of innovation performance aspiration shortfall on digital transformation follows an inverted U-shaped pattern: the increase of innovation performance aspiration shortfall will lead to the change of firm transformation motivation and capability, making the degree of digital transformation increase first and then decrease. Furthermore, the effect of innovation performance aspiration shortfall on digital transformation is amplified in firms with no political connection and high market competition. These findings advance the behavioral theory of the firm by enhancing its predictive and explanatory power in organizational management practices and provide theoretical guidance and empirical evidence for transition economy firms navigating digital transformation under innovation performance aspiration shortfall conditions.
{"title":"Transformation for innovation: Innovation performance aspiration shortfall and transition economy firms’ digital transformation","authors":"Yan Zhou , Hailin Lan, Haojun Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101884","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101884","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>How firms in transition economies drive digital transformation amidst innovation challenges remains an important but underexplored question. Grounded in the premise of heuristic decision-making under bounded rationality, this study employs the behavioral theory of the firm to examine how innovation performance aspiration shortfall affects digital transformation and the moderating effect of resource allocation characteristics in transition economies. Using a sample of manufacturing firms listed on Chinese A-share market from 2008 to 2023, the results reveal that the impact of innovation performance aspiration shortfall on digital transformation follows an inverted U-shaped pattern: the increase of innovation performance aspiration shortfall will lead to the change of firm transformation motivation and capability, making the degree of digital transformation increase first and then decrease. Furthermore, the effect of innovation performance aspiration shortfall on digital transformation is amplified in firms with no political connection and high market competition. These findings advance the behavioral theory of the firm by enhancing its predictive and explanatory power in organizational management practices and provide theoretical guidance and empirical evidence for transition economy firms navigating digital transformation under innovation performance aspiration shortfall conditions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":"76 ","pages":"Article 101884"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144185694","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 : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-03-18DOI: 10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101870
Jacopo Cricchio , Saverio Barabuffi , Antonio Crupi , Alberto Di Minin
This study examines the Chinese Artificial Intelligence Open Innovation Platforms (AIOIPs) through a descriptive patent-based network analysis to uncover patterns of open innovation (OI). By analyzing brokerage roles and patent quality measures, we propose a typology of brokers—Forerunners, Explorers, Settlers, and Seekers—each reflecting distinct innovation and knowledge dissemination strategies. Our findings highlight how firms strategically balance collaboration and specialization through brokerage roles, linking these dynamics to patent quality and network positioning. These insights offer actionable guidance for enhancing the adaptability and efficiency of AI innovations within OI ecosystems, with implications for both managers and policymakers.
{"title":"China’s new knowledge brokers. A patent citations network analysis of the artificial intelligence open innovation ecosystem","authors":"Jacopo Cricchio , Saverio Barabuffi , Antonio Crupi , Alberto Di Minin","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101870","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101870","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the Chinese Artificial Intelligence Open Innovation Platforms (AIOIPs) through a descriptive patent-based network analysis to uncover patterns of open innovation (OI). By analyzing brokerage roles and patent quality measures, we propose a typology of brokers—Forerunners, Explorers, Settlers, and Seekers—each reflecting distinct innovation and knowledge dissemination strategies. Our findings highlight how firms strategically balance collaboration and specialization through brokerage roles, linking these dynamics to patent quality and network positioning. These insights offer actionable guidance for enhancing the adaptability and efficiency of AI innovations within OI ecosystems, with implications for both managers and policymakers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":"76 ","pages":"Article 101870"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143644312","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}
Although innovation is a critical determinant of sustained economic growth, there are still gaps in our understanding of what drives innovation. Given this, we conduct a systematic literature review to illustrate the role of formal and informal institutions in innovation, identify the relevant theoretical cornerstones and current trends and synthesize the research developed in this field. The review incorporates both qualitative and quantitative studies published between 2011 and 2023. We propose avenues for future research, which, together with the synthesis of the bibliometric findings, constitute the main contribution of this systematic review.
{"title":"Exploring the nexus between institutions and innovation: A systematic literature review","authors":"Yorgos Goletsis , Konstantina Christogeorgou , Nikolaos Mylonidis , Georgios A. Panos","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101880","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101880","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although innovation is a critical determinant of sustained economic growth, there are still gaps in our understanding of what drives innovation. Given this, we conduct a systematic literature review to illustrate the role of formal and informal institutions in innovation, identify the relevant theoretical cornerstones and current trends and synthesize the research developed in this field. The review incorporates both qualitative and quantitative studies published between 2011 and 2023. We propose avenues for future research, which, together with the synthesis of the bibliometric findings, constitute the main contribution of this systematic review.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":"76 ","pages":"Article 101880"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144125289","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 : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-05-20DOI: 10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101879
Yang Zhang , wentao Zhou , Lina Ma
Innovation failure, as an inherent phenomenon in organizational innovation processes, exerts significant influence on enterprise innovation resilience. Current scholarly discourse inadequately addresses the critical dichotomy of whether innovation failure experience manifests as a "curse" or "blessing" for enterprise innovation resilience. This study empirically investigates this phenomenon by examining Chinese listed manufacturing enterprises, while concurrently analyzing the moderating role of digital inclusive finance. Key findings reveal: (1) Innovation failure experience positively correlates with enhanced innovation resilience; (2) This effect proves particularly pronounced in state-owned and large enterprises, while demonstrating no statistically significant impact on non-state-owned and small-to-medium enterprises; (3) Digital inclusive finance exhibits paradoxical moderation, negatively influencing the innovation failure experience and innovation resilience relationship. These insights provide valuable theoretical foundations for organizational failure management and inform policy-making regarding financial platform governance to enhance innovation resilience.
{"title":"Innovation failure experience, digital inclusive finance and enterprise innovation resilience: Evidence from China","authors":"Yang Zhang , wentao Zhou , Lina Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101879","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101879","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Innovation failure, as an inherent phenomenon in organizational innovation processes, exerts significant influence on enterprise innovation resilience. Current scholarly discourse inadequately addresses the critical dichotomy of whether innovation failure experience manifests as a \"curse\" or \"blessing\" for enterprise innovation resilience. This study empirically investigates this phenomenon by examining Chinese listed manufacturing enterprises, while concurrently analyzing the moderating role of digital inclusive finance. Key findings reveal: (1) Innovation failure experience positively correlates with enhanced innovation resilience; (2) This effect proves particularly pronounced in state-owned and large enterprises, while demonstrating no statistically significant impact on non-state-owned and small-to-medium enterprises; (3) Digital inclusive finance exhibits paradoxical moderation, negatively influencing the innovation failure experience and innovation resilience relationship. These insights provide valuable theoretical foundations for organizational failure management and inform policy-making regarding financial platform governance to enhance innovation resilience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":"76 ","pages":"Article 101879"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144089646","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}
This exploratory study delves into the acceptance and perception of a new sustainable medical device in the clinical-dental field for biomedical and industrial applications. Through a multi-faceted approach encompassing documentary analysis, semi-structured interviews, and a Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) based questionnaire, the study highlights the potential benefits and hesitancies surrounding the adoption of sustainable materials. The results suggest a considerable interest among professionals, particularly in cost-effectiveness and improved clinical practices. However, concerns exist regarding the ease of use and the need for further evidence of clinical effectiveness. The study offers valuable insights into the complexities of implementing sustainable medical devices and highlights the importance of practical considerations and targeted training.
{"title":"An exploratory study on the acceptance of new sustainable medical devices for biomedical and industrial applications","authors":"Ludovica Evangelista , Daniele Leone , Alessandro Scaletti , Fabian Bernhard","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101875","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101875","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This exploratory study delves into the acceptance and perception of a new sustainable medical device in the clinical-dental field for biomedical and industrial applications. Through a multi-faceted approach encompassing documentary analysis, semi-structured interviews, and a Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) based questionnaire, the study highlights the potential benefits and hesitancies surrounding the adoption of sustainable materials. The results suggest a considerable interest among professionals, particularly in cost-effectiveness and improved clinical practices. However, concerns exist regarding the ease of use and the need for further evidence of clinical effectiveness. The study offers valuable insights into the complexities of implementing sustainable medical devices and highlights the importance of practical considerations and targeted training.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":"76 ","pages":"Article 101875"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143899933","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 : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-02-13DOI: 10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101860
Taiye Luo , Juanjuan Qu , Shuo Cheng
Organizations’ embeddedness in networks pertaining to collaboration and knowledge exerts a significant impact on their innovation. This study utilizes patent data from the field of 5 G (the fifth generation of cellular network technology) to examine the effects of organizations’ network embeddedness characteristics—specifically, collaboration breadth and depth, knowledge breadth and depth, and combination breadth and depth—on innovation quality. Furthermore, we utilize panel data fsQCA to explore paths (i.e., configurations of the six specified conditions) that can lead to high innovation quality. The analysis yields four sustainable configurations, which can be categorized as either a collaboration-knowledge dual-driven strategy (with collaboration breadth, collaboration depth, and combination depth as core conditions) or a deep knowledge-driven strategy (with knowledge depth and combination depth as core conditions). These findings provide a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms influencing innovation quality within the framework of multi-network embeddedness.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-02-14DOI: 10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101861
Ana I. Rodriguez-Escudero , Pilar Carbonell , Hector Perez-Fernandez , Victor Temprano Garcia
In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, the capacity of new product development (NPD) teams to innovate hinges significantly on their ability to leverage external networks, known as ‘team boundary spanning’. While this activity is traditionally viewed as beneficial, its potential to exacerbate job stress and consequently diminish team satisfaction and NPD performance demands closer examination. Our research extends this area of inquiry by exploring the impact of team boundary spanning on job stress within NPD teams. Drawing on the conservation of resources theory, we hypothesize that team boundary spanning increases job stress which, in turn, decreases job satisfaction and NPD performance. This study also investigates the role of team boundary buffering as both a proactive and reactive intervention to mitigate the stress experienced by teams. Data were collected from 140 NPD projects in high and medium-high technology firms. Results reveal that team boundary spanning indeed elevates job stress and that high levels of stress correlate with declines in product quality and job satisfaction. Additionally, our results indicate that while team boundary buffering is not an effective proactive stress intervention, it is beneficial as a reactive intervention to the stress precipitated by boundary spanning activities.
{"title":"Examining the role of team boundary buffering as a proactive and reactive stress intervention for boundary spanning new product teams","authors":"Ana I. Rodriguez-Escudero , Pilar Carbonell , Hector Perez-Fernandez , Victor Temprano Garcia","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101861","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101861","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, the capacity of new product development (NPD) teams to innovate hinges significantly on their ability to leverage external networks, known as ‘team boundary spanning’. While this activity is traditionally viewed as beneficial, its potential to exacerbate job stress and consequently diminish team satisfaction and NPD performance demands closer examination. Our research extends this area of inquiry by exploring the impact of team boundary spanning on job stress within NPD teams. Drawing on the conservation of resources theory, we hypothesize that team boundary spanning increases job stress which, in turn, decreases job satisfaction and NPD performance. This study also investigates the role of team boundary buffering as both a proactive and reactive intervention to mitigate the stress experienced by teams. Data were collected from 140 NPD projects in high and medium-high technology firms. Results reveal that team boundary spanning indeed elevates job stress and that high levels of stress correlate with declines in product quality and job satisfaction. Additionally, our results indicate that while team boundary buffering is not an effective proactive stress intervention, it is beneficial as a reactive intervention to the stress precipitated by boundary spanning activities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 101861"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143421076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-12-16DOI: 10.1016/j.jengtecman.2024.101851
Swapan Ghosh
More and more industrial businesses leverage AI to optimize operations and introduce new and innovative business models for competitive advantage. Businesses are collecting huge amounts of data from their business processes and plan to utilize them for better customer experience and insights. However, industrial managers are still determining the AI capabilities they need to analyze the data and develop customer-centric business models. Based on the discussions with twenty-five elite informants from five large industrial businesses, in this study, we propose a set of AI capabilities that can help managers develop data-driven business models. We offer a conceptual framework of AI capabilities and their influence on data-driven business model innovation that can guide managers in their transformation journeys.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-01-06DOI: 10.1016/j.jengtecman.2024.101859
Javier Papa , Mike Hobday
This article examines two unexpectedly successful latecomer firms which emerged from Argentina, a crisis ridden developing economy where the vast majority of firms have languished behind the technology frontier set by global leaders. By comparing the experience of these two unusual firms with that of general trends among successful, mainly Asian latecomers, we hope to throw light on the opportunities facing other firms struggling under adverse economic and policy conditions. Through appreciative theorising we aim to incorporate some ideas from evolutionary economic theory to hopefully extend ‘normal’ (mainly Asian based) latecomer catch-up conceptualisation. The empirical findings, based on a unique and original dataset, suggest that in order to catch-up with global competitors the two latecomer firms were forced to develop strong entrepreneurial capabilities to follow a ‘contrarian path’ in terms of corporate strategy, organizational structures and technological and management capabilities, when policy incentives and macroeconomic conditions pointed them in the opposite direction. The article introduces a new framework to analyse latecomers within the macroeconomic and policy context and raises questions for future latecomer theory, policy and research on latecomer firms’ strategies under adversity.
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