European Journal of Innovation Management: Volume 19 Issue 2

The co-creation of multi-agent social innovations: A bridge between service and social innovation research

Paul Windrum, Doris Schartinger, Luis Rubalcaba, Faiz Gallouj, Marja Toivonen

The research fields of service innovation and social innovation have, until now, been largely disconnected. At the most basic level, a great many social innovations are services…

The combined effect of technological relatedness and knowledge utilization on explorative and exploitative invention performance post-M & A

Andrea Ganzaroli, Ivan De Noni, Luigi Orsi, Fiorenza Belussi

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the combined effect of Mergers and Acquisitions (M & A) partners’ technological relatedness and the acquirer’s effective…

The complexity of innovation: an assessment and review of the complexity perspective

Petro Poutanen, Wael Soliman, Pirjo Ståhle

The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the innovation literature, with special focus on studies applying a complexity perspective. As a contribution in its own right…

Effectuation, innovation and performance in SMEs: an empirical study

David C. Roach, Joel A. Ryman, Joyline Makani

Ever since Sarasvathy’s (2001) seminal article, scholars have sought to test effectuation’s affect on firm performance. Although recent work has begun the arduous process of…

Leadership for knowledge organizations

A D Amar, Vlatka Hlupic

The purpose of this paper is to give some theoretical foundation to leadership function and style for managing knowledge workers whose work, by definition, is non-routine, thrives…

International licensing revisited: the role of copyright and trademark enforcement strength

Nikolaos Papageorgiadis, Constantinos Alexiou, Joseph G Nellis

– The purpose of this paper is to explore the instrumental role that copyright and trademark enforcement strength plays in stimulating licensing flows in 21 countries.

Schumpeterian innovation patterns and firm-performance of global technology companies

Vijay Kumar, Rangaraja P Sundarraj

– The purpose of this paper is to determine how different innovation patterns affect the financial performance of global technological firms.