European Journal of Innovation Management: Volume 25 Issue 2

Impact of knowledge search on product and process innovation: mediating role of absorptive capacity and moderating role of IT capability

Hui Gao, Xiu-Hao Ding, Suming Wu

More enterprises adopt open innovation by breaking technological or organizational boundaries to seek internal and external knowledge when they face a fiercely competitive…

Do financial constraints moderate the relationship between innovation subsidies and firms' R&D investment?

Enrique Acebo, José-Ángel Miguel-Dávila, Mariano Nieto

The purpose of this paper is to analyse whether the effect of innovation subsidies on firms' R&D investment varies depending on whether the firm is suffering from financial…

Understanding social innovation leadership in universities: empirical insights from a group concept mapping study

Peter Milley, Barbara Szijarto

Recently, social innovation (SI) has captured the imagination of a range of actors globally, including in the higher education (HE) sector. This study explores the conceptual…

Knowledge workers' existential affirmation and innovativeness: a Kierkegaardian redescription of Drucker

M. Minsuk Shin, Jiwon Lee, June-ho Chung

Although existing studies demonstrate positive relationships between ethical cultures and innovativeness, their explanations of why an ethical culture leads to innovativeness are…

Bricolage as capability for frugal innovation in emerging markets in times of crisis

Leandro Lima Santos, Felipe Mendes Borini, Moacir de Miranda Oliveira, Dennys Eduardo Rossetto, Roberto Carlos Bernardes

This research aims to answer the following question: Could bricolage become a capability for companies in emerging markets to develop frugal innovations in times of crisis…

Transnational knowledge transfer or indigenous knowledge transfer: which channel has more benefits for China's high-tech enterprises?

Ping Deng, Hao Lu

This paper compares four external technology acquisition channels' (foreign technology transfer, exporting, inter-industry R&D spillover and domestic technology transfer…

Innovation and internationalization in family SMEs: analyzing the role of family involvement

Mikel Alayo, Txomin Iturralde, Amaia Maseda

The aim of this paper is to provide new evidence on the ability of family small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to develop ambidextrous innovations and their influence on the…

Geographic search, potential absorptive capacity and radical innovation performance: the moderating role of collaborative network

Feng Zhang, Lei Zhu, Chongchong Lyu

A firm's geographic boundaries represent an important demarcation line when searching for new knowledge. Prior research on geographic search has generated conflicting results…

Implementing open innovation for radical innovation: three successful cases in the SAES group

Andrea Urbinati, Raffaella Manzini, Davide Piacentini, Corrado Carretti

Radical innovation is still a debated concept in the field of innovation management. Very often, firms cannot pursue radical innovation due to the lack of access to markets, right…

CSR and appropriation potential of firm innovative knowledge

Xiaohong Mei, Yang Ge, Jiashun Huang, Yu Chen

The purpose of this paper is to study the moderating role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the knowledge asset–firm financial performance relationship.

External technology acquisition, exploitation and process innovation performance in emerging market small and medium sized enterprises: the moderating role of organizational slack

Thammanoon Charmjuree, Yuosre F. Badir, Umar Safdar

This study is among the very few to examine the firm's simultaneous use of both dimensions of open innovation and its influences on the firm's process innovation performance…

Green innovation: a multidomain systematic review

Stephen Oduro, Guglielmo Maccario, Alessandro De Nisco

This paper examines the status and evolution of green innovation research from 1948 to 2018.

Do different genders' knowledge sharing behaviors drive different innovative behavior? The moderating effect of social capital

Seyedeh Zahra Fatemi, Samaneh Sadeghian, S. Fatemeh Ghasempour Ganji, Lester W. Johnson

Considering the importance of innovation in organizations and the formation of innovative behaviors (IBs) in the life of the organization, the authors study the effect of…

The impact of digitalisation vision and information technology on organisations' innovation

Farzana Parveen Tajudeen, Devika Nadarajah, Noor Ismawati Jaafar, Ainin Sulaiman

Based on the dynamic capability theory (DCT), this study examines the role of digitalisation vision and the impact of key information technology (IT) strategies, such as IT…

Customer cocreation experience in online communities: antecedents and outcomes

Zeynep Didem Nohutlu, Basil G. Englis, Aard J. Groen, Efthymios Constantinides

The purpose of this article is to obtain an in-depth insight into the nature and impact of customers´ cocreation experiences in online communities and the effects of customer…