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Understanding non-adopters’ intention to use internet pharmacy: Revisiting the roles of trustworthiness, perceived risk and consumer traits J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2021-01-15 Long Ma
Despite the benefits of Internet pharmacies, the adoption rate is still low. However, few studies have focused on the non-adopters’ intention of innovation adoption. Thus, this study aims to investigate the influential factors underlying non-adopters’ intention of using Internet pharmacies. Based on technology acceptance model, this study further integrated trustworthiness and perceived risk. It was
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A reference model for science and technology parks strategic performance management: An emerging economy perspective J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2021-01-16 Juliane de Almeida Ribeiro; Marcelo Bronzo Ladeira; Adriana Ferreira de Faria; Marcelo Werneck Barbosa
There has recently been great concern with the performance of science and technology parks (STPs). This paper proposes a reference model for the strategic performance management of STPs built on the theoretical bases of service dominant logic and the balanced scorecard. We conducted a survey of the strategic managers and owners of 84 firms located in 15 different STPs in Brazil. The research model
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Mediating and moderating effects of a client focus on the innovation–financial performance relationship J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2021-01-04 Nor’Aini Yusof; Amy Marisa; Lai Kong Seng
The influence of a client focus on innovation and companies’ performance remains inconclusive. The paper investigates the mediating and moderating effects of a client focus on the relationship between innovation and financial performance. Survey data were collected from construction companies and analysed using partial least square structural equation modelling. The findings showed that the client
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Coordination Approaches to Foster Open Innovation R&D Projects Performance J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Ana Paula Paes Leme Barbosa; Mario Sergio Salerno; Vinicius Chagas Brasil; Paulo Tromboni de Souza Nascimento
Open innovation R&D projects involve teams from different organizations, which may affect the team’s ability to communicate since people are from different locations and companies, which may have different priorities, procedures, goals, and expectations. To succeed in the project, the team needs coordination mechanisms that facilitate teamwork. However, in the open innovation R&D projects, the coordination
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Effect of efficient triple-helix collaboration on organizations based on their stage of growth J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2020-11-28 Changjun Lee; Daeho Lee; Minjung Shon
Triple Helix (TH) theory, which emphasizes synergy between universities, industries, and government, has not been tested empirically from the perspective of differences in R&D efficiency. We examine how firms’ TH strategies affect R&D efficiency and how synergy varies according to stage of growth. First, we classify the firms into four groups by TH strategy. We estimate each firm’s R&D efficiency and
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Data determinants of the activity of SMEs automobile dealers J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2020-10-07 David Salvetat; Jean-Sébastien Lacam
Many SMEs still seem reluctant to accept the management of large datasets, which still appear to be too complex for them. However, our study reveals that the majority of small French car dealers are developing Big data and Smart data policies to improve the quality of their offers, the dynamism of their sales and their access to new opportunities. However, not every policy has the same effects on the
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Disruptive innovation and entrepreneurship in emerging economics J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Steven Si; Shaker A. Zahra; Xiaobo Wu; Don Jyh-Fu Jeng
Disruptive innovation has increasingly become a core subject for researchers across disciplines, from economics to engineering and technology. This is understandable as companies all over the world over are facing contemporary challenges such as intense global competition, rising market volatility, constantly changing consumer demand, and shortened product life cycles. Under these conditions, disruptive
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When Does Diffusion Stop? Forecasting Innovation Diffusion: System Dynamics for Telehealth J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2020-09-17 Juin-Ming Tsai; Shiu-Wan Hung
With the rapid aging of the global population, telehealth has become one of the most important applications in the emerging industries. The present study proposes innovation diffusion for telehealth using a system dynamics model. The results indicate that telehealth technology is already at a mature stage, and that policy promotion and market demands are the main factors in diffusion enhancement. Notably
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Responding in kind: How do incumbent firms swiftly deal with disruptive business model innovation? J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2020-09-04 Ji-Ye Mao, Fang Su, Bing Wang, Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa
Disruptive business model innovation (BMI) is a threat to incumbents. This study elaborates a new approach, developing a novel business model (BM) swiftly, to dealing with this threat rather than either imitating disruptive BMI or strengthening the existing BM as prescribed in the literature. Findings show that incumbent firms can swiftly develop a new BM through a two stage process. In the separation
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Is disruptive innovation in emerging economies different? Evidence from China J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2020-09-02 Peter J. Williamson, Feng Wan, Yin Eden, Lei Linan
Most studies on disruptive innovations have focused on developed economies and little work examines this type of innovation in and from emerging economies. Moreover, previous studies on disruptive innovations have not investigated the processes behind. This study begins to fill these research gaps. Analysing disruptive innovations in and from China, we identify three important differences from the
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Uncovering disruptors’ business model innovation activities: evidencing the relationships between dynamic capabilities and value proposition innovation J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2020-08-17 Alexander Lennart Schmidt, Laurent Scaringella
Ongoing debates highlight the need for continuous business model innovation for inducing disruptive dynamics. However, the conceptual or qualitative nature of studies impede the formulation of confirmatory statements. We collected survey data from 98 German strategy executives and performed partial least squares structural equation modelling to study the antecedents and sub-constructs of value proposition
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Leading for constructive innovation: Preliminary evidence from China J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2020-08-11 Jin Chen, Robert A Burgelman, Jiaxue Li, Chang Chieh Hang, Gang Zheng
Disruptive innovation theory has received widespread attention. With the rapid development of the Chinese economy, Chinese firms accomplished many instances of innovative disruption in recent years, and many latecomer companies are gradually growing into world class innovative companies. As an emerging economy, it is necessary to analyze how China may achieve more disruptive innovations in the future
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Relational embeddedness and disruptive innovations: The mediating role of absorptive capacity J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2020-08-07 Zhiwei Wang, Juan Ling, Jay I. Chok
What are the driving factors of disruptive innovations in emerging economies from a network perspective? We argue that three forms of absorptive capacity (i.e. exploratory, exploitative and transformative learning) mediate the relationship between a firm’s network relations and disruptive innovations. We tested the hypotheses with a survey of 251 firms in China and iterated the conceptual model to
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Disruptive innovation and national cultures: Enhancing effects of regulations in emerging markets J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2020-08-05 Sahrok Kim, K. Praveen Parboteeah, John B. Cullen, Wan Liu
Research on the effects of national cultures and their interactions with the regulatory institutional environment on disruptive innovation in emerging economies context remains scarce. Thus, to answer this gap, we draw from the sociological framework of Institutional Anomie Theory and hypothesized that disruptive innovation is a form of positive deviance to anomic conditions in societies. Using multilevel
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Revisiting the R&D Investment–Performance Relationship: The Moderating Effects of Factor Market Characteristics J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2020-07-21 Sean T. Hsu, Susan K. Cohen
R&D activities produce knowledge, new products and processes, and augment firms’ capacities to adapt. Yet investing in R&D does not always lead to higher profits, because the value it creates is difficult to appropriate. We theorize three characteristics of industry’s tangible input factor markets raise appropriability and the returns to R&D. Using a panel dataset of 1303 business units, across 168
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Acceptance of 5 G technology: Mediation role of Trust and Concentration J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2020-07-03 Morteza Akbari, Azadeh Rezvani, Elmira Shahriari, Miguel Ángel Zúñiga, Hanieh Pouladian
Even though 4 G technology is still under development, many investors are currently working to advance the following type of Internet networks identified as ‘5 G’. The importance of 5 G technology has been demonstrated over the past few years, extended to different activities related to technology acceptance. Therefore, the primary purpose of our study is to assess factors affecting the intention to
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Disruptive innovation and technology ecosystem: The evolution of the intercohesive public–private collaboration network in Chinese telecommunication industry J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2020-06-23 Justin Tan, Liang Wang, Hongjuan Zhang, Wan Li
Recent events involving Chinese technology firm Huawei and its role in the global 5th Generation (5G) telecommunication standard, as well as the role of the Chinese government in shaping the technology competition, have pushed the issue of public–private collaboration to the headline. To offer improved understanding about this issue of profound implication for research and practice, we trace the trajectory
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Factors influencing the intention of managers to adopt collaborative robots (cobots) in manufacturing organizations J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2020-06-05 Ana Correia Simões, António Lucas Soares, Ana Cristina Barros
This study identified and characterized the factors influencing managers’ intentions to adopt collaborative robots (cobots) in manufacturing companies. Based on a conceptual framework that integrates three technology adoption theories (Diffusion of Innovation, Technology-organization-environment and Institutional theory) and following an exploratory qualitative research design, this paper identifies
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Patent-based framework for assisting entrepreneurial firms’ R&D partner selection: Leveraging their limited resources and managing the tension between learning and protection J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2020-06-05 Su Jung Jee, So Young Sohn
One of the critical attributes for successful R&D collaboration with external organizations is finding appropriate partners. When choosing R&D partners, entrepreneurial firms confront challenges on how to leverage their limited resources and manage the tension between learning and protection. Given those challenges, this study suggests a patent-based framework for helping technology-based entrepreneurial
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The main determinants of new product development ability for international markets: An empirical study on brazilian manufacturing export companies J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2020-06-05 Mateus Panizzon, Gabriel Sperandio Milan, Eric Charles Henri Dorion, François Coallier
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Generational technology advancement and firm growth: A study of sales growth in the flat panel display industry J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2020-05-25 Lihong Qian, I. Kim Wang
Firms may pursue higher generations of technology to grow sales, but the effectiveness of this strategy is undetermined, because technological changes often create disruptions to the firm and its competitive environment. Understanding the effectiveness of a firm’s generational technology advancement strategy requires an examination of the contextual factors pertaining to generational technological
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Adoption of enterprise social networking: Revisiting the IT innovation adoption model of Hameed et al J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2020-05-24 Marie-Laurence Caron-Fasan, Nicolas Lesca, Céline Perea, Sarah Beyrouthy
Enterprise social networking (ESN) is still an underused IT innovation; although its advantages are widely recognized, its adoption remains a challenge. This research aims to study the characteristics involved in the adoption process of ESN by using the integrative conceptual model of Hameed et al., which combines the individual/organizational dimensions of adoption with the three-phase adoption process
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A literature review of disruptive innovation: What it is, how it works and where it goes J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2020-04-08 Steven Si, Hui Chen
The disruptive innovation theory, proposed and developed by Christensen over 20 years ago, has been widely discussed and applied. However, there are still serious misunderstanding and misusing of the concept and connotation of disruptive innovation. Doubts about its practical significance and predictability also remain. In this paper, we attempt to further clarify the concept and emphasize its important
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Platform competition: A research outline for modelling and simulation research J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2020-03-13 George Papachristos
Platform competition and management shapes and is shaped by a constantly changing socioeconomic context. This implies that managers face transient strategic trade-offs in platform development and competition processes. The frameworks and empirical studies in extant literature do not account for this. A way to address the temporal aspect of strategic action in platform competition research is the systematic
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A generic study on Green IT/IS practice development in collaborative enterprise: Insights from a developing country J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2020-02-21 Bokolo Anthony, Mazlina Abdul Majid, Awanis Romli
This study investigates the perception of Information Technology (IT) professionals and IT managers towards deployment of environmental-friendly practices in Collaborative Enterprise (CE). Through literature review this study develops a model based on Perceived Organizational e-Readiness Theory (POER) and Process-Virtualization-Theory (PVT) to investigate the factors that influence IT professionals’
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The organizational climate for psychological safety: Associations with SMEs' innovation capabilities and innovation performance J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2020-02-01 Marius Andersson, Oystein Moen, Per Olaf Brett
This paper conceptualizes psychological safety as an organizational level phenomenon, and proposes that an organizational climate for psychological safety is positively related to SMEs' innovation performance and innovation capabilities. These hypotheses are tested on data from Norwegian SMEs. The results demonstrate that psychological safety is positively associated with SMEs' innovation performance
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Understanding the motivations of technology managers in radical innovation decisions in the mature R&D firm context: An Agency theory perspective J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2020-01-16 Ibrahim A. Shaikh, Gina Colarelli O’Connor
Economic and management theory predicts that mature R&D organizations will underinvest into radical technological innovation. Recent research, however, highlights how many established R&D companies often do aggressively invest into radical innovation, but never truly reap the full benefits of their early investments. In order to investigate this paradox, we ground our paper in Agency-theory and focus
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A theory of the evolution of technology: Technological parasitism and the implications for innovation magement J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2019-12-27 Mario Coccia, Joshua Watts
How do technologies develop? This study proposes the theory of technological parasitism that is based on the idea that parasite-host relationships between technologies and technologies with a high number of technological parasites have an accelerated evolution driven by long-run mutualistic symbioses, providing the basis for extensive macroevolution and adaptive behavior of systems of interactive technologies
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The key role of dynamic capabilities in the evolutionary process for a startup to develop into an innovation ecosystem leader: An indepth case study J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2019-11-21 Nanping Feng, Chao Fu, Fenfen Wei, Zhanglin Peng, Qiang Zhang, Kevin H. Zhang
This paper explores the evolutionary mechanism of an innovation ecosystem by investigating how the case startup develops to initiate and lead one. The results reveal that the dynamic capabilities of the case company play a key role. They help the company acquire, renew and reconfigure resources to conquer its own development puzzles. This process naturally solves the stage challenges of the innovation
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The Future of University-Business Cooperation: Research and Practice Priorities J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2019-11-15 Balzhan Orazbayeva, Carolin Plewa, Todd Davey, Victoria Galan Muros
University-Business Cooperation (UBC) is an essential mechanism for advancing interests of business, universities and societies. To improve our understanding of the future of UBC research and practice, this study reports on a priority setting process comprising a two-stage research design. Qualitative research identifies a portfolio of six priority areas and 58 related topics. A quantitative step then
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Innovation diffusion through standardization: A study of building ventilation products J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2019-11-14 Soheila Bahrami, Brian Atkin, Anne Landin
Standards on product information can facilitate the diffusion of innovations. This paper explores the standards related to the ventilation products with improved acoustic performance and the stakeholders involved. We introduce a new approach to classification and identification of the functions of standards in supporting such innovations. Moreover, our analysis of stakeholders indicates that the companies
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Mirroring hypothesis and integrality: Evidence from Tesla Motors J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2019-11-06 Yurong Chen, Shamsud D. Chowdhury, Carole Donada
Viewing the relationship between vertical integration and product architecture as the “mirroring hypothesis”, we examine the case of Tesla Motors. Our analysis demonstrates that, by and large, Tesla pursues a high degree of integrality in product architecture and employs significant vertical integration. Such congruence offers support for the mirroring hypothesis in the introductory stage of the electric
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Depth and breadth of knowledge and the governance of technology alliances J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2019-10-22 Mohammad Saleh Farazi, Shanthi Gopalakrishnan, Ana Perez-Luño
This paper focuses on technology alliances between R&D intensive biotechnology firms and larger pharmaceutical companies. It aims to investigate whether the biotech partners can leverage the depth and the breadth of their knowledge resources to retain their equity ownership when forming an alliance, and whether prior alliance experience adds to their overall leverage. Using a sample of 390 alliances
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Digitalizing the maritime industry: A case study of technology acquisition and enabling advanced manufacturing technology J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2019-09-30 Oda Ellingsen, Knut Einar Aasland
The need to reduce time-to-market and reduce cost-of-non-quality drives organizations operating within the advanced manufacturing industry to explore, and source technology externally. This paper reports on a case study of enabling technology and strategies for technology acquisition. The data is collected through in-depth structured interviews with five global technology experts. The interview guide
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Technology partnership portfolios and firm innovation performance: Further evidence J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2019-08-28 Martin Carree, Boris Lokshin, Harold Alvarez Alvarez
Firms may cooperate in R&D with various types of partners to boost their innovative performance. We model the optimal partnership portfolio breadth and empirically test the model on a panel of Dutch manufacturing firms. We confirm earlier evidence of a curvilinear relationship between breadth of R&D cooperation and a firm’s innovation performance. Two firm-specific factors, firm size and R&D-intensity
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Disruptive technological process innovation in a process-oriented industry: A case study J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2019-08-19 Amir Bahman Radnejad, Harrie Vredenburg
By utilizing a unique methodology to the field of strategy (i.e., the complete participant method), we demonstrated that firms are able to identify a technology that can potentially disrupt the industry, expanding on the ex-ante capacity of disruptive innovation theory. In addition, the study identifies six challenges that a new entrant faces when developing a potentially disruptive technical process
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Exploring uncertainties in collaborative product development: Managing customer-supplier collaborations J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2019-05-18 Mohammad H. Eslami, Lisa Melander
The paper explores technological, commercial and organizational uncertainties of collaborative product development by customers and suppliers. The empirical data consist of an in-depth single case study of a collaborative product development project. The findings provide a deep insight into the dynamic character of different uncertainties in collaborative product development. The study shows the complexity
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Towards a deeper understanding of the emergence of process innovations: Which role do inter-organisational learning and internal knowledge exploitation play? J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2019-05-14 Christian Linder, Sonja Sperber
We demonstrate that suppliers as external partners act as promising information sources for incremental process innovations, while internal knowledge is more likely to provoke radical process innovations. However, this relation changes if suppliers are come from a distant geographic or a distance industry sector. Our paper contributes to the ongoing discussion surrounding operation innovations by highlighting
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“From lab bench to store shelves:” A translational research & development framework for linking university science and engineering research to commercial outcomes J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2019-05-13 Carlos Bazan
Research conducted at the university can have considerable commercial potential. However, turning those discoveries, innovations, and inventions into commercially viable products can prove extremely difficult. Based on a systematic review and narrative synthesis of the literature on translational research: the different models, its practice, and the efforts to streamline it, the author proposes a novel
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Drivers of thoroughness of NPD tool use in small high-tech firms J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2019-05-13 Gerrit Anton de Waal, Paul Knott
This paper explores how thoroughly practitioners in small high-tech firms use tools in support of NPD activities. We present a mixed-methods study starting with a survey of 99 firms covering 76 tools across 12 functional perspectives on NPD, which shows wide variability in reported thoroughness of use. We investigate what drives this variability via 17 interviews. We find that the principal driver
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Determinants of maintenance performance: A resource-based view and agency theory approach J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2019-04-18 Antonio Miguel Cruz, Gregory L. Haugan
This study aims to examine the effects of maintenance service firms’ resources and capabilities on maintenance performance, measured by the turnaround time of medical devices (TAT). The theoretical framework used in this study is based on the resource-based view (RBV) and agency theory (AT). The hypotheses were tested using information on 764 medical devices and 60 maintenance service providers, resulting
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Multi level network management – A method for managing inter-organizational innovation networks J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2019-03-06 Jan-Patrick Cap, Erik Blaich, Holger Kohl, Ariane von Raesfeld, Rainer Harms, Markus Will
Collaboration in inter-organizational networks is a major driver of innovation. Nevertheless, methods that practitioners can rely upon for managing innovation networks are still scarce. This research fills this gap by providing an approach that increases innovation output by intensifying collaboration in networks. An action research methodology with two cycles of action was adopted. The first cycle
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Technological innovation vs technological backwardness patterns in latecomer firms: An absorptive capacity perspective J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2019-02-22 Claudio Petti, Yongli Tang, Alessandro Margherita
This study investigates the factors inhibiting latecomer firms’ technological innovation and eventually their catch-up process. Accordingly, it relies on resource-based theory to advance an absorptive capacity argument and develop a multiple mediation model. This model is tested using the data collected from 166 Chinese manufacturing firms. Furthermore, this study provides theoretical arguments and
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A new approach to efficient ratio: A case of South Korea’s research and development investment J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2018-12-24 Hongbum Kim, Jungwoo Shin, Sangwon Lee
Previous studies generally indicate that increasing investment in research and development (R&D) positively affects economic growth. However, there exists limited discussion on the efficient ratio of R&D investment for basic, applied, and development research. Therefore, this study conducted an empirical analysis of the efficient ratio of R&D investment based on national data in Korea. In addition
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Proactive development of emerging technology in a socially responsible manner: Data-driven problem solving process using latent semantic analysis J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2018-11-03 Heeyeul Kwon, Yongtae Park
This article offers a quantitative method of realizing the responsible development of emerging technologies via text analysis of future-oriented web data and scientific publication data. Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) is applied to group key terms based on their contextual similarity. It overlooks what people have in mind regarding social disruptions of new technologies and further provides technical
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In with the new? Generational differences shape population technology adoption patterns in the age of self-driving vehicles J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2018-09-27 Kai Ruggeri, Ondřej Kácha, Igor G. Menezes, Michaela Kos, Matija Franklin, Laurie Parma, Patrick Langdon, Brian Matthews, John Miles
With rapid growth of self-driving vehicle technologies, policymakers and industry are actively engaging the public to understand attitudes toward smart mobility. As public officials explore implementing connected systems, they may find diverse reactions. We present an important insight using precise technology adoption curves for three age groups within a major initiative in the United Kingdom, going
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Standardisation framework to enable complex technological innovations: The case of photovoltaic technology J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2018-09-07 Jae-Yun Ho, Eoin O’Sullivan
Strategic standardisation is becoming increasingly challenging due to high levels of complexity, interdisciplinarity, and systems nature of modern technologies. This paper develops a standardisation mapping framework for systematic and comprehensive analyses of how standardisation supports innovation, by integrating key ‘dimensions of standardisation’ addressed in existing conceptual models and related
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How do patent-based measures inform product commercialization? —The case of the United States pharmaceutical industry J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2018-09-04 Hsin-Ning Su, Yi-Siang Lin
Patents have frequently been used to analyze innovation and technological trajectory in the economic literature. The present study explored how 13 frequently used patent indicators inform product approval probability and product commercialization speed. A total of 2943 drugs approved by the FDA and the corresponding 4660 patents were analyzed to understand how patent-based indicators inform 1) which
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Valuation of innovation projects with high uncertainty: Reasons behind the search for real options J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2018-08-29 Vinicius Chagas Brasil, Mario Sergio Salerno, Leonardo Augusto de Vasconcelos Gomes
Real Options (RO) has been indicated to valuate projects with high uncertainty. However, literature points to challenges and asks for an organizational understanding of its use. So: Why do managers search for the RO approach to valuate radical innovation projects? Based on five in-depth case studies, we discuss hidden organizational and managerial issues related to the search for RO to valuate radical
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Academics coping with business logic: A study at Indonesian universities J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2018-08-09 Firmansyah David, Peter van der Sijde, Peter van den Besselaar
This paper presents coping mechanisms that address competing institutional logics in University-Business Co-operation (UBC). We examined academics at two Indonesian universities and in two science fields, computer science and electrical engineering. Our findings suggest that the level of the integration of business and science logic determines their coping strategies. Academics can act as a hybrid
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Openness and management systems integration: Pursuing innovation benefits J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2018-07-13 Alfonso Hernandez-Vivanco, Claudio Cruz-Cázares, Merce Bernardo
In a global and highly competitive environment, innovation is becoming riskier and costlier. Against this backdrop, firms are challenged to allocate their innovation resources efficiently to obtain the most benefits. To this end, integration of management systems and open innovation are internally- and externally-oriented managerial practices, respectively, that may foster innovation efficiency. However
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Cross-fertilization of Key Enabling Technologies: An empirical study of nanotechnology-related projects based on innovation management strategies J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Cristina Páez-Avilés, Esteve Juanola-Feliu, Josep Samitier
In this empirical study, we have analysed three innovation management strategies that could be influencing the process of cross-fertilization of KETs (Key Enabling Technologies), currently being fostered by European initiatives. To do so, we have interviewed Nanotechnology-related project leaders participating in Horizon 2020. Results from a MCA (Multiple Correspondence Analysis) have shown that higher
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Exploring the impact of innovation implementation on supply chain configuration J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2018-06-22 Yasmine Sabri, Guido J.L. Micheli, Cali Nuur
Considering the foreseen digital transformation and rapid dissemination of technological innovations, this paper investigates what happens along the supply chain (SC) when process and product innovation practices are implemented. The research examines the SC strategy and configuration of four product families; it considers the configuration to incorporate the whole range of SC functions and relationships
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Balancing comprehensiveness and parsimony: Towards a context-specific barrier identification across multiple levels combined with complexity reduction through barrier groups J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2018-06-01 Anne-Karen Hueske, Edeltraud Guenther
We address the criticism of barrier groups as incomplete and overlapping using a mixed-method barrier analysis. Striving for comprehensiveness, a set of forty-five context-specific barrier manifestations is identified through qualitative expert interviews guided by the multilevel theory-driven EOI (External environment Organization Individual) barrier model. The perceived relevance of the barrier manifestations
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Do the technical universities exhibit distinct behaviour in global university rankings? A Times Higher Education (THE) case study J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2018-05-30 Carmen Perez-Esparrells, Enrique Orduna-Malea
Technical Universities (TUs) exhibit a distinct ranking performance in comparison with other universities. In this paper we identify 137 TUs included in the THE Ranking (2017 edition) and analyse their scores statistically. The results highlight the existence of clusters of TUs showing a general high performance in the Industry Income category and, in many cases, a low performance on Research and Teaching
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Organic vs. mechanistic coordination in distributed New Product Development (NPD) teams J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2018-05-26 Céline Péréa, Max von Zedtwitz
New Product Development (NPD) processes commonly involve distributed teams. The more dispersed team members are, the less frequently and easily they will communicate, and the more challenging it will be to form a cohesive team. One solution is to reduce task interdependence and adopt a mechanistic coordination mechanism, which reduces the need for team communication, has a hierarchical structure and
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The dynamics of collaborative practices for knowledge creation in joint R&D projects J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2018-05-18 Kadígia Faccin, Alsones Balestrin
Purpose We aim to elucidate how the dynamics of collaborative practices in research and development (R&D) projects occur and to reveal the main practices adopted in developing an ambidextrous project. The dynamics of R&D practices in knowledge creation arise from complementary practices of exploration and exploitation undertaken over the lifespan of an inter-organizational project that trigger an ambidextrous
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Open innovation and firm performance: Evidence from the Chinese mechanical manufacturing industry J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2018-05-10 Si Zhang, Delin Yang, Shumin Qiu, Xiang Bao, Jizhen Li
This paper studies how human capital can affect the relationship between open innovation and the financial performance of firms. The results demonstrate that there is an inversed U-shape relationship between open innovation and firm profitability. We also indicate how human capital (both quality and structure) will differently moderate above relationship: generally, higher the education level of employees
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Trust in driverless cars: Investigating key factors influencing the adoption of driverless cars J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2018-05-03 Kanwaldeep Kaur, Giselle Rampersad
Driverless cars are seen as one of the key disruptors in the next technology revolution. However, the main barrier to adoption is the lack of public trust. The purpose of this study is to investigate the key factors influencing the adoption of driverless cars. Drawing on quantitative evidence, the study found that the ability of the driverless car to meet performance expectations and its reliability
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Eco-innovation determinants in manufacturing SMEs from emerging markets: Systematic literature review and challenges J. Eng. Technol. Manage. (IF 1.957) Pub Date : 2018-04-17 Diego Augusto de Jesus Pacheco, Carla Schwengber ten Caten, Carlos Fernando Jung, Helena Victorovna Guitiss Navas, Virgílio Antônio Cruz-Machado
The debate on eco-innovation is a recent and emergent topic between practitioners and in the academy. Especially in developing economies, such as in Brazil, this topic is very incipient mainly in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) context. Hence, the purpose of this study is to identify what are the determinant factors for the successful adoption of eco-innovation in Brazilian SMEs. The findings