Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management: Volume 33 Issue 4

Guest editorial: Creativity management and manufacturing firms' performance

Luna Leoni, Matteo Cristofaro, Koteshwar Chirumalla, Stephen Dobson

Achieving green product and process innovation through green leadership and creative engagement in manufacturing

Saira Begum, Enjun Xia, Fayaz Ali, Usama Awan, Muhammad Ashfaq

The aims of this study were three-fold: to determine the impact of green transformational leadership on creative process engagement, green product innovation and green process…

Cognitive biases' influence on employees' product creativity and product performance: evidences from Italian manufacturing technology firms

Matteo Cristofaro, Luna Leoni, Pier Luigi Giardino

This paper aims to empirically investigate how cognitive biases influence employees' product creativity (EPC) and related product performance. In particular, the paper primarily…

The impact of management support on individual learning opportunity and creativity performance in Hong Kong manufacturing companies

Hongyi Sun, Zulfiqar Ali, Liqun Wei

The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship and effect of management support on individual creativity performance by focusing on the individual learning opportunity…

Untangling service design routines for digital servitization: empirical insights of smart PSS in maritime industry

Birgit Andrine Apenes Solem, Marko Kohtamäki, Vinit Parida, Thomas Brekke

The present study sets out to understand how a manufacturing company in the maritime industry utilized creative design principles and developed service design routines to advance…

Cultivating product innovation performance through creativity: the impact of organizational agility and flexibility under technological turbulence

Wilert Puriwat, Danupol Hoonsopon

This study is to compare the impact of organizational agility and flexibility on performance of each type of product innovation (radical vs incremental innovation). Additionally…

Linking incremental and radical creativity to product and process innovation with organisational knowledge

Cagri Bulut, Tugberk Kaya, Ahmed Muneeb Mehta, Rizwan Qaiser Danish

This study examines the effects of incremental and radical creativity on both product and process innovation by considering the moderating roles of knowledge sharing in intensity…

Global value chain breadth and firm productivity: the enhancing effect of Industry 4.0

Marco Opazo-Basáez, Ferran Vendrell-Herrero, Oscar F. Bustinza, Josip Marić

Global value chains (GVC) incorporate internationally fragmented sources of knowledge so as to increase global competitiveness and performance. This paper sheds light on the role…

Organizational creativity and sustainability-oriented innovation as drivers of sustainable development: overcoming firms' economic, environmental and social sustainability challenges

Jaime E. Souto

Sustainable development is key to firms' competitiveness, survival, growth and profitability, although sustainability emerges as a great challenge. The aim of this study is to…

The effect of organizational support for creativity on innovation and market performance: the moderating role of market dynamism

Christian V. Baccarella, Lukas Maier, Martin Meinel, Timm F. Wagner, Kai-Ingo Voigt

Recent technological and social changes have challenged manufacturing firms to remain competitive in increasingly dynamic markets. A way of facing these challenges is to foster…