European Journal of Innovation Management: Volume 25 Issue 4

Corporate tensions and drivers of sustainable innovation: a qualitative study in the food industry

Sergio Román, Stefan Bodenstab, Luis Manuel Sánchez-Siles

Companies are increasingly aware of the importance of delivering economic, social and environmental benefits through sustainable innovation. This study aims to examine how…

The functioning of dynamic capabilities: explaining the role of organizational innovativeness and culture

Somonnoy Ghosh, Bhupen K. Srivastava

Using the knowledge-based view of the firm, dynamic capability literature and known dimensions of organizational innovativeness (OI), this article develops two testable models…

Effects of open innovation breadth on industrial innovation input–output relationships

Alejandro Germán Frank, Guilherme Brittes Benitez, Mateus Ferreira Lima, João Augusto Bonzanini Bernardi

Open innovation breadth (OIB) considers the diversity of external collaboration partners for innovation. The authors investigate the moderating effect of OIB on the relationship…

Differences between end user innovators and embedded user innovators in diffusion channel selection: the moderating role of technological advances

Xin Yu

In heterogeneously segmented markets, collaborating with product users in product innovation is important for business success. End user innovators and embedded user innovators…

How servant leadership triggers innovative work behavior: exploring the sequential mediating role of psychological empowerment and job crafting

Muhammad Mumtaz Khan, Muhammad Shujaat Mubarik, Tahir Islam, Asif Rehman, Syed Saad Ahmed, Essa Khan, Farhan Sohail

The study aims to examine the mediating role of psychological empowerment and job crafting between servant leadership and innovative work behavior.

Adaptive marketing capability and product innovations: the role of market ambidexterity and transformational leadership (evidence from Pakistani manufacturing industry)

Shabahat Ali, Weiwei Wu, Sadaqat Ali

This study aims to offer and validate an integrated marketing capability-product innovations framework. Particularly, it aims to examine the role of adaptive marketing capability…

Creative leadership, innovation climate and innovation behaviour: the moderating role of knowledge sharing in management

Pinghao Ye, Liqiong Liu, Joseph Tan

Innovation, in most enterprises, originates from employees. In this study, how organizational climate, creative leadership ability and emotional reaction to imposed change impact…

Customer involvement in the new process innovation: antecedents, mediation and performance

Yuan-Chieh Chang, Wen-Hong Chiu, Jian-Hang Wang, Min-Jun Teng

The paper proposes customer involvement can be considered an organization-level construct of knowledge creation in the new process development. Specifically, the paper evaluates…

Big data analytics capabilities and organizational performance: the mediating effect of dual innovations

Xiaofeng Su, Weipeng Zeng, Manhua Zheng, Xiaoli Jiang, Wenhe Lin, Anxin Xu

Following the rapid expansion of data volume, velocity and variety, techniques and technologies, big data analytics have achieved substantial development and a surge of companies…

Can TMT vertical pay disparity promote firm innovation performance? The moderating role of CEO power and board characteristics

Xi Zhong, He Wan, Ge Ren

Based on the tournament theory and the principal agent theory, this study aims to empirically investigate how top management team (TMT) vertical pay disparity (the pay disparity…

How abusive supervision climate affects team creativity: the contingent role of task interdependence

Chenghao Men, Lei Yue, Huo Weiwei, Bing Liu, Guangwei Li

Drawing on theories of social information processing and social identity, the authors explore how abusive supervision climate affects team creativity in a Chinese cultural…

Innovation capabilities for sustainability: a comparison between Green and Gray companies

Cristina M. Ostermann, Leandro da Silva Nascimento, Cynthia Mikaela Chemello Faviero Lopes, Guilherme Freitas Camboim, Paulo Antônio Zawislak

This paper aims to identify and compare the arrangements of innovation capabilities and their correlation with the socio-environmental responsibility of two groups: companies with…