European Journal of Innovation Management: Volume 23 Issue 4

The influence of KIBS-client interactions on absorptive capacity-building for environmental innovation

Lisa A. Pace, Ian Miles

Firms need to develop absorptive capacities to effectively source and exploit knowledge relevant to environmental behaviour for their own innovation activity. Business-to-business…

Honor the old, welcome the new: an account of unlearning and forgetting in NPD teams

Adrian Klammer, Stefan Gueldenberg

The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the antecedents, levers of control and outcomes of organizational unlearning and forgetting in new product development…

How R&D originality affects open innovation under knowledge spillovers?

Zongjun Wang, Zhenyu Jiang

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how R&D originality functions in an open innovation process after the introduction of knowledge spillovers (KSs).

Reverse knowledge transfer and innovation in MNCs

Daniel Jiménez-Jiménez, Micaela Martínez-Costa, Raquel Sanz-Valle

The purpose of this paper is twofold: to study the relationship between reverse knowledge transfer (RKT) and headquarters’ innovation, examining potential moderators of such…

The effect of social capital on exploratory and exploitative innovation: Modelling the mediating role of absorptive capability

Bismark Duodu, Steve Rowlinson

The purpose of this paper is to advance new insights into how internal and external social capital (SC) facets influence exploratory and exploitative innovation directly, and…

Entrepreneurial orientation and innovation performance: insights from Korean ventures

Ribin Seo

The purpose of this paper is to explore the curvilinear relationship between entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and innovation performance in ventures of Korea, where this topic has…

Obstacles of innovation and institutional support in the cooperation agreements: The Spanish case

N. Arranz, Marta F. Arroyabe, Juan Carlos Fernandez de Arroyabe

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of obstacles and institutional factors on the cooperation for innovation. The collaboration between different types of…

A problem-solving process for developing capabilities: the case of an established firm

Ei (Emily) Shu

Current research has theorized that developing dynamic capability can be viewed as a problem-finding and problem-solving process in terms of a firm’s resource reconfiguration…

Enterprise resource planning and business model innovation: process, evolution and outcome

Rocio Rodriguez, Francisco-Jose Molina-Castillo, Göran Svensson

The purpose of this paper is to focus on the implementation process of enterprise resource planning (ERP), the evolution of business model innovation (BMI) and the organizational…