Transforming mature design management to better firm performance: The importance of top management involvement

IF 3.2 1区工程技术 Q2 ENGINEERING, MANUFACTURING

Design Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-24 DOI:10.1016/j.destud.2024.101276

Sylvia Xihui Liu, Peiyao Cheng

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Abstract

Design can be utilized in different manners, including as styling activities, integrating role, and strategic manner. The different way reflects different maturity of a firm. Although previous studies conceptually suggest the mature way of managing design brings considerable benefits, empirical evidence is rare. This study fills in this gap by investigating the influences of design management maturity on product innovation performance and financial performance. A survey was conducted (N = 200) and analyzed through PLS-SEM. Results show that design management maturity does not directly improve product innovation performance but mediated by top managers' design management expertise. These findings highlight the importance of top managers' design management expertise in transforming a firm's design management maturity to enhanced product and firm performance.

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将成熟的设计管理转变为更好的公司业绩：高层管理参与的重要性

设计可以以不同的方式加以利用，包括造型活动、整合作用和战略方式。不同的方式反映了企业的不同成熟度。尽管以往的研究从概念上表明，成熟的设计管理方式会带来可观的收益，但实证证据却很少见。本研究通过调查设计管理成熟度对产品创新绩效和财务绩效的影响，填补了这一空白。我们进行了一项调查（N = 200），并通过 PLS-SEM 进行了分析。结果表明，设计管理成熟度并不能直接提高产品创新绩效，而是通过高层管理者的设计管理专长来实现。这些发现凸显了高层管理者的设计管理专长在将企业的设计管理成熟度转化为产品和企业绩效提升方面的重要性。

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来源期刊

Design Studies 工程技术-工程：制造

CiteScore

8.60

自引率

20.00%

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审稿时长

40 days

期刊介绍： Design Studies is a leading international academic journal focused on developing understanding of design processes. It studies design activity across all domains of application, including engineering and product design, architectural and urban design, computer artefacts and systems design. It therefore provides an interdisciplinary forum for the analysis, development and discussion of fundamental aspects of design activity, from cognition and methodology to values and philosophy. Design Studies publishes work that is concerned with the process of designing, and is relevant to a broad audience of researchers, teachers and practitioners. We welcome original, scientific and scholarly research papers reporting studies concerned with the process of designing in all its many fields, or furthering the development and application of new knowledge relating to design process. Papers should be written to be intelligible and pertinent to a wide range of readership across different design domains. To be relevant for this journal, a paper has to offer something that gives new insight into or knowledge about the design process, or assists new development of the processes of designing.