European Journal of Innovation Management: Volume 25 Issue 1

How does entrepreneurial leadership affect innovation work behavior? The mediating role of individual and team creativity self-efficacy

Afsaneh Bagheri, Morteza Akbari, Armin Artang

This paper explored the ways through which entrepreneurial leadership practices of chief executive officers (CEOs) enhance their employees' innovation at workplace in…

How the egocentric alliance network impacts firm ambidextrous innovation: a three-way interaction model

Guiyang Zhang, Chaoying Tang

The purpose of the paper is to advance a framework that can analyze the impact of the egocentric alliance network on firm ambidextrous innovation holistically. On this purpose…

Investigating employee creativity through employee polychronicity and employee resilience: a glimpse of nurses working in the health-care sector

Muhammad Khalid Anser, Zahid Yousaf, Muhammad Sharif, Wang Yijun, Abdul Majid, Muhammad Yasir

This study aims to investigate the relationship between employee polychronicity and employee creativity. This study also explores the mediating role of employee resilience in the…

Do autonomous and trusting hospital employees generate, promote and implement more ideas? The role of distributed leadership agency

Thomas Faurholt Jønsson, Christine Maria Unterrainer, Helena Grøn Kähler

Employees constitute an important source of innovation in organizations. Innovation management strategies often include attempts of stimulating employees' innovative contribution…

The role of innovation capability in the relationship between marketing capability and new product development: evidence from the telecommunication sector

Abdulqadir Rahomee Ahmed Aljanabi

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between marketing and innovation capabilities and new product development (NPD), including the potential mediating and…

Early entrants attract better customer evaluations: evidence from the digital camera industry

Johanna Kirjavainen, Saku J. Mäkinen, Ozgur Dedehayir

In addition to pioneering, empirical work on entry order increasingly addresses fast followers and laggards and the potential advantages they are able to capture. There is also a…

Role of managerial perception of competitive pressures in firms' product innovation success

Pankaj Kumar Medhi, Ashita Allamraju

This study explores the link between the level of importance managers assign to competitive pressures from domestic competition, foreign competition and customers as factors in…

Entrepreneurial orientation, new product development and firm performance: the moderating role of legitimacy in Chinese high-tech SMEs

Yunqing Liu, Min Wang

This paper examines the relationship of entrepreneurial orientation (EO), new product development (NPD), legitimacy (political and market) and firm performance (FP). The authors…

Geographical aggregation and incubator graduation performance: the role of incubator assistance

Bojun Hou, Jin Hong, Yang Yang

This paper attempts to use agglomeration theory and ecological theory to explore how geographic agglomeration affects the graduation performance of incubator community. The…

Entrepreneurial leadership and employee innovative behavior: an examination through multiple theoretical lenses

Amjad Iqbal, Tahira Nazir, Muhammad Shakil Ahmad

The purpose of this research is to determine the relationship between entrepreneurial leadership and employee innovative behavior and examine mediating role of affective…

Innovativeness and performance: the joint effect of relational trust and combinative capability

Gloria Parra-Requena, María José Ruiz-Ortega, Pedro M. Garcia-Villaverde, F. Javier Ramírez

This work aims to develop a configurational model to explain how relational trust and combinative capability can jointly improve the relationship between innovativeness and firm's…

Performance implications of combining creative and imitative innovation strategies

Changho Moon, Moses Acquaah

The purpose of this study is to investigate the performance effects of pure innovation strategies (creative and imitative) versus the combination of the two innovation strategies…

How to unleash innovative work behavior of SMEs' workers through knowledge sharing? Accessing functional flexibility as a mediator

Muhammad Khalid Anser, Zahid Yousaf, Muhammad Yasir, Muhammad Sharif, Muhammad Hamid Nasir, Muhammad Imran Rasheed, Junaid Waheed, Hadi Hussain, Abdul Majid

This study aims to investigate the direct impact of knowledge sharing (KS) and functional flexibility (FF) on innovative work behavior (IWB) of small medium enterprises (SME’s…

Embedding entrepreneurship in doctoral students: the impact of a T-shaped educational approach

Pierluigi Rippa, Giovanni Landi, Silvia Cosimato, Lorenzo Turriziani, Mohamed Gheith

Over the last decades, the importance of entrepreneurial education (EE) for the personal development of young generations has gained momentum among policymakers, practitioners and…

Industry and country effects on innovation effort

Mariano Nieto, Daniel Alonso-Martínez, Nuria González-Álvarez

The purpose of the paper is to study the determinants of firms' innovation effort using the main approaches in strategic management. The authors specifically analyze the joint…

Financial leverage and corporate innovation in Chinese public-listed firms

Najaf Iqbal, Ju Feng Xu, Zeeshan Fareed, Guangcai Wan, Lina Ma

This study attempts to document the impact of financial leverage on corporate innovation in the Chinese nonfinancial public firms listed on Shenzhen and Shanghai stock exchanges.