This paper unfolds the ongoing fourth revolution of supply chains (4SC) and proposes guidelines for future research. The review of sixty-five literature reviews follows three stages: bibliometric analysis of Industry 4.0, its synergies with supply chain transformation, and state-of-the-art assessment. 4SC is a context-bound technological change driven by organizational and cultural priorities, aiming

This study aims at mining cross-country creativity/knowledge flows of patented blockchain applications – and their technological trajectories – through patent citation networks. It tests – through logit models – whether current patent owners have benefited from patent acquisitions from abroad (“learning-by-acquisition”). More than 50,000,000 patents granted within 2008–2018 were considered. Findings

This paper aims to analyze the relevance of the three dimensions of the knowledge conversion capability (KCC) for the innovation performance of academic spin-offs (ASOs) at two stages of evolution, as well as, how academic and industry networks contribute to the development of these capacities in each stage. Results obtained on a sample of 167 Spanish ASOs show that: 1) the relevance of the KCC capacities

This study examines the relationship between CEO entrepreneurial orientation and the magnitude of strategic change initiated by the firm. Based on the upper echelons perspective and the attention-based view, this study proposes that CEO entrepreneurial orientation affects a firm’s overall magnitude of strategic change. In addition, the relationship between CEO entrepreneurial orientation and strategic

New technologies are at the heart of industry transformation. Virtual and augmented reality companies provide fundamentally new ways of communication, treatment, education, and specialist training within the medical industry. However, business models for new ventures that target the medical industry have received scant attention within academic research. Using a multiple case study approach, we analyze

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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’

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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