Purchasing contribution to innovation exploration: awareness, motivations and capabilities

IF 7.1 2区管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT

International Journal of Operations & Production Management Pub Date : 2024-06-24 DOI:10.1108/ijopm-10-2023-0849

François Constant, Thomas Johnsen

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Abstract

Purpose

This paper explores the precedents for purchasing to contribute effectively to innovation exploration. We investigate how purchasing can become aware of innovation opportunities, their incentives or motivations to explore and capture innovation and the required capabilities.

Design/methodology/approach

Aiming for theory elaboration, we analyse an exemplar case study of a company developing leading-edge practices for involving purchasing in innovation exploration applying an Awareness-Motivation-Capability (AMC) framework.

Findings

This study elaborates on purchasing theory with a comprehensive set of AMC-based precedents for purchasing’s innovation exploration contribution that we categorise into three dimensions: motivations, capabilities and awareness. Our findings indicate interrelations between these and purchasing motivation as a precedent of capabilities and awareness.

Research limitations/implications

We demonstrate the useful of applying AMC theory to researching purchasing’s contribution to innovation and how AMC needs to be adapted in this research context. We explore interrelations between awareness, motivation and capabilities but propose future research on the nature of these interrelations.

Practical implications

We suggest ways for managers to shape, adapt or redesign their purchasing organisations to better support innovation exploration.

Originality/value

This study proposes a framework for purchasing contribution to innovation based on AMC theory.

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采购对创新探索的贡献：意识、动机和能力

本文探讨了采购有效促进创新探索的先例。我们研究了采购人员如何才能意识到创新机会，他们探索和捕捉创新的动机或动力，以及所需的能力。设计/方法/途径为了进行理论阐述，我们分析了一家公司的示范案例研究，该公司运用意识-动机-能力（AMC）框架，开发了让采购人员参与创新探索的先进做法。研究结果本研究阐述了采购理论，为采购人员的创新探索贡献提供了一套全面的基于 AMC 的先例，我们将其分为三个维度：动机、能力和意识。我们的研究结果表明了这些方面之间的相互关系，以及作为能力和意识先例的采购动机。研究局限/意义我们证明了应用 AMC 理论研究采购对创新的贡献的有用性，以及在这种研究背景下如何调整 AMC。我们探讨了意识、动机和能力之间的相互关系，但建议今后对这些相互关系的性质进行研究。实践意义我们为管理者提出了塑造、调整或重新设计采购组织的方法，以更好地支持创新探索。

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International Journal of Operations & Production Management MANAGEMENT-

CiteScore

13.30

自引率

17.20%

发文量

期刊介绍： The mission of the International Journal of Operations & Production Management (IJOPM) is to publish cutting-edge, innovative research with the potential to significantly advance the field of Operations and Supply Chain Management, both in theory and practice. Drawing on experiences from manufacturing and service sectors, in both private and public contexts, the journal has earned widespread respect in this complex and increasingly vital area of business management. Methodologically, IJOPM encompasses a broad spectrum of empirically-based inquiry using suitable research frameworks, as long as they offer generic insights of substantial value to operations and supply chain management. While the journal does not categorically exclude specific empirical methodologies, it does not accept purely mathematical modeling pieces. Regardless of the chosen mode of inquiry or methods employed, the key criteria are appropriateness of methodology, clarity in the study's execution, and rigor in the application of methods. It's important to note that any contribution should explicitly contribute to theory. The journal actively encourages the use of mixed methods where appropriate and valuable for generating research insights.