European Journal of Innovation Management: Volume 24 Issue 5

Impact of technological uncertainty and technological complexity on organizational information processing capability: the moderating role of work experience

Sebastian Jilke

Technological uncertainty and technological complexity are key characteristics of new product development (NPD) projects that impose significant information processing…

Diversity, climate and innovative work behavior

Sabina Bogilović, Guido Bortoluzzi, Matej Černe, Khatereh Ghasemzadeh, Jana Žnidaršič

The purpose of this paper is to extend current discussion on the drivers of innovative work behavior (IWB) by exploring how individual perceived diversities (visible dissimilarity…

The early growth of start-ups: innovation matters. Evidence from Italy

Raffaele Fiorentino, Sergio Longobardi, Alessandro Scaletti

Despite the relevance of innovation in entrepreneurship literature, empirical research on the innovation-performance relationship in start-ups is underdeveloped and shows…

Leading the innovation: role of trust and job crafting as sequential mediators relating servant leadership and innovative work behavior

Muhammad Mumtaz Khan, Muhammad Shujaat Mubarik, Tahir Islam

The purpose of the study is to ascertain the role of servant leadership in causing innovative work behavior. The study also examines the mediating role of job crafting and…

Enhancing design thinking approaches to innovation through gamification

Rui Patrício, Antonio Carrizo Moreira, Francesco Zurlo

The paper aims to explore the relationship between gamification and design thinking approach to innovation in the context of the early stage of innovation process (ESoIP). Design…

Stakeholder management in open innovation projects: a multiple case study analysis

Andrea Urbinati, Paolo Landoni, Francesca Cococcioni, Ludovico De Giudici

In recent years, companies have started to open up their Research and Development (R&D) and their innovation activities to external partners. They aim to access new resources and…

Converging and diverging business model innovation in regional intersectoral cooperation–exploring wine industry 4.0

Marc Dressler, Ivan Paunovic

Industry 4.0, the integrated digital process world in production, is an under researched area. Especially for the wine industry, 4.0 theoretical base up to date is weak, impeding…

Organizational identification perceptions and millennials' creativity: testing the mediating role of work engagement and the moderating role of work values

Li Hui, Wang Qun, Sajjad Nazir, Zhao Mengyu, Muhammad Ali Asadullah, Sahar Khadim

Millennial-generation employees need to stimulate their creativity to produce innovative ideas, services and products for organizations to flourish and succeed. The main purpose…

Impact of intangible resources (dominant logic) on SMEs innovation performance, the mediating role of dynamic managerial capabilities: evidence from China

Kashif Ullah Khan, Fouzia Atlas, Usman Ghani, Sadia Akhtar, Farhan Khan

The purpose of this paper is to examine the important role of intangible resources under resource based view (RBV) such as dominant logic (information filter and…

How does ethical leadership boost follower's creativity? Examining mediation and moderation mechanisms

Sajjad Nazir, Amina Shafi, Muhammad Ali Asadullah, Wang Qun, Sahar Khadim

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the mechanism through voice behavior mediates the relationship between ethical leadership and employees' creativity. This study…

Attitude vs involvement: a systematic literature review at the intersection between engagement and innovation

Daniel Trabucchi, Paola Bellis, Diletta Di Marco, Tommaso Buganza, Roberto Verganti

In a world where innovation became a “buzzword” and everyone within companies is required to foster innovation, the engagement of people toward innovation is fundamental to prompt…

Individual knowledge creation ability: dispositional antecedents and relationship to innovative performance

Nosheen Sarwat, Muhammad Abbas

The purpose of this study was to understand the effects of creative self-efficacy and affective personal commitment on individuals' knowledge creation and innovative work…

Effects of technology lock-in on enterprise innovation performance

Li Zhao, Jianxin Sun, Ling Zhang, Pengfei He, Qiulu Yi

This study explores the effects of different types of technology lock-in on enterprise innovation performance. On this basis, the authors aim to provide technological innovation…

Technological innovation research in the last six decades: a bibliometric analysis

Morteza Akbari, Maryam Khodayari, Armin Khaleghi, Mozhgan Danesh, Hamid Padash

This study aims to explore the evolutionary trajectories of technological innovation using 1,361 documents to determine the most cited documents, influential authors, prominent…

Trust, knowledge sharing, and innovative work behavior: empirical evidence from Poland

Roman Kmieciak

The purpose of this paper is to assess the effects of two types of trust (vertical and horizontal trust) on knowledge sharing (knowledge donating and knowledge collecting) and the…

Sharing knowledge processes for promoting innovation in small businesses

Ronen Harel, Dafna Schwartz, Dan Kaufmann

The purpose of this study is to examine the contribution of sharing knowledge processes aimed at promoting innovation in small businesses.

Market uncertainty, innovation of firms in alliance and alliance partner characteristics

JungYun Han, Ribuga Kang

While prior alliance literature has focused on how firms exploit alliance strategies to enhance performance and innovation, little is known about whether market uncertainty…