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{"title":"The role of dynamic capabilities in the development of organisational ambidexterity and its effect on timely responsiveness in emerging market high‐tech firms","authors":"Sin‐Pei Ng, Pervaiz K. Ahmed","doi":"10.1111/radm.12712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12712","url":null,"abstract":"Although organisational ambidexterity (hereafter referred to as ambidexterity) allows emerging market high‐tech firms (EMHTFs) to align themselves with existing markets and to explore and seize new market opportunities to retain their competitiveness in rapidly changing business environments, little is known about how ambidexterity is developed and the role that dynamic capabilities play in the development of ambidexterity. We examine how dynamic capabilities, specifically, sensing and reconfiguring capabilities, influence the development of ambidexterity and the effect of ambidexterity on timely responsiveness. We also investigate the moderating effects of firm characteristics (i.e. firm size, sector, age, and status) and environmental turbulence (i.e. market, competitive, and technological turbulence) on both relationships. We find that the application of sensing and reconfiguring capabilities enables EMHTFs to develop ambidexterity and that ambidexterity improves timely responsiveness. Additionally, the relationship between the use of sensing capability and ambidexterity and between ambidexterity and timely responsiveness, appear robust across varying levels of market, competitive, and technological turbulence, and regardless of firm size, sector, age, and status. Furthermore, while EMHTFs across different sectors, age groups, and status benefit from using the reconfiguring capability to develop ambidexterity, we find that large firms benefit more than SMEs as the resource availability advantage of large firms allow them to reconfigure resources to support ambidextrous orientations in various ways. Hence, large firms can develop greater ambidexterity than SMEs, whose scarce resources limit how they can reconfigure resources to support ambidextrous orientations.","PeriodicalId":21040,"journal":{"name":"R&D Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141777247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Knowledge spillovers or R&D collaboration? Understanding the role of external knowledge for firm innovation","authors":"David B. Audretsch, Maksim Belitski, Rosa Caiazza","doi":"10.1111/radm.12711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12711","url":null,"abstract":"Extant research has established that firms engage in R&D collaboration and access knowledge spillovers to enhance their innovativeness. We aim to take this conversation in a new direction by seeking to answer the question, ‘How does engagement in R&D collaboration with suppliers, customers, and competitors, both domestically and internationally, as well as access to knowledge spillovers from universities and other open sources, influence a firm's innovation?’ This is the primary goal of our study. The study develops a knowledge‐based view on knowledge collaboration and spillovers, explaining how a firm's decision to collaborate, as opposed to accessing knowledge spillovers, shapes its innovation outputs and propensity to innovate. The theoretical utility of this framework lies in elucidating how the distinct types of knowledge (basic or applied) transferred to a firm when accessing external knowledge create different mechanisms that influence innovation output. By analyzing data on knowledge spillovers and R&D collaboration from the innovation survey of firms in the United Kingdom over the period 2002–2014, we demonstrate that in most instances of knowledge combinations, the cost effect of knowledge sourcing exceeds the complementary effect of knowledge, leading to a firm's choice between R&D collaboration and spillovers. The study contributes to the innovation and R&D management literatures by explaining why this pattern emerges and demonstrating that these relationships are contingent upon the degree of collaboration and the level of knowledge spillovers.","PeriodicalId":21040,"journal":{"name":"R&D Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141740408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Smart circular economy as a service business model: an activity system framework and research agenda","authors":"Andres Alcayaga, Erik G. Hansen","doi":"10.1111/radm.12707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12707","url":null,"abstract":"The circular economy is a new sustainability paradigm and a major driver of innovation in industrial firms. Digital servitization, enabled through smart products and their embeddedness in Internet of Things networks, represents a significant lever to generate product life cycle information and achieve collaboration between actors in the value cycle. Empirical studies on how product‐service system business models enable smart circularity are bourgeoning, but a gap exists regarding their microfoundations. Against this background, we adopt an activity system perspective to explore boundary‐spanning and interdependent business model activities. We conducted a qualitative interview study in business‐to‐business industries, from which we derived a funnel framework of smart circular systems (SCS) that spans three layers of the activity system. This contributes to theory in three ways: First, we identify 20 distinct microlevel activities. Second, we explain their interdependencies by classifying them based on the product life cycle into smart use, smart circular, and cross‐strategy activity sets. We also order these activity sets by their data transaction frequency, environmental and economic value, and a firm's typical learning pathway, as well as link them back into circular product design. Third, we highlight increasing servitization to develop the activity system across multiple circular activity sets. Managers can use the funnel as a template to drive circular business models on multiple levels, from adopting individual activities to redesigning the entire activity system.","PeriodicalId":21040,"journal":{"name":"R&D Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141740407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Intellectual property reassembly: a novel approach to evaluate R&D collaboration outcomes","authors":"Su Jung Jee","doi":"10.1111/radm.12709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12709","url":null,"abstract":"Research and development (R&D) collaboration outcomes have usually been evaluated based on the magnitude of outputs, such as new products, patenting, or productivity growth. However, they have yet to be evaluated based on the various directions of mutual learning between collaborators, which have a long‐term impact on the post‐partnership technology development of the collaborators. This study proposes a framework that evaluates intellectual property (IP) reassembly, which indicates how a focal firm produces new IP based on its learnings from its R&D partnership, as a novel approach to evaluate R&D collaboration. The proposed approach estimates the degree to which IP reassembly (a focal firm's independent patent applications drawing on co‐patents) occurs in the following directions: exploitation of, exploration beyond, or complementary to the pre‐partnership capabilities of each collaborator. Within the framework, a focal firm's performance can be compared to that of its partner. The proposed framework is illustrated and validated using the case of partnership between Samsung SDI and BOSCH (2008–2012) in their battery development. We discuss implications for contract design, partnership boundaries, and performance evaluation in the context of R&D collaboration.","PeriodicalId":21040,"journal":{"name":"R&D Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141609218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Engaging with startups through corporate accelerators: the case of H‐FARM's White Label Accelerator","authors":"Nicola Del Sarto, Diane A. Isabelle, Valentina Cucino, Alberto Di Minin","doi":"10.1111/radm.12705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12705","url":null,"abstract":"Corporate accelerators have emerged in recent years as an innovation mechanism that builds bridges between corporations and startups. Through inbound Open Innovation (OI) activities, established firms open their innovation processes to startups to acquire their knowledge. Previous research has focused either on independent accelerators or on corporate accelerator programs that an established firm operates internally. The literature on how accelerators orchestrate different OI practices is sparse, yet large corporations are forging ahead with corporate accelerators. Furthermore, new corporate accelerator models have emerged, rendering the corporate accelerator phenomenon more heterogenous. In this paper, adopting an OI lens, we explore the White Label Accelerator (WLA), a recent model in which an independent accelerator manages the program on behalf of a single corporate organization. Through an in‐depth case study of Technogym Wellness Accelerator, a pioneer and most important WLA in Italy set up by H‐Farm on behalf of Technogym, a large fitness and wellness company, we investigate how such accelerators function as an OI tool. We found four key dimensions that enable successful outcomes. In particular, the importance of entrepreneurial alertness as a key driver for the effective exploitation of intellectual property represents a significant finding. Our research contributes to OI and entrepreneurial finance literature and provides insightful managerial implications to corporate accelerator stakeholders and startups' managers.","PeriodicalId":21040,"journal":{"name":"R&D Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141568386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Organizational support for digital transformation in the metaverse: a contingent pathway from user experience to digitalization resistance","authors":"Inho Hwang, Ribin Seo","doi":"10.1111/radm.12706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12706","url":null,"abstract":"As organizations intensify their digital transformation (DX) initiatives to navigate the evolving digital landscape, metaverses emerge as pivotal digital technology, enhancing collaborative and experiential interactions. Despite their growing integration, a profound understanding of how metaverse utilization influences employee behavior toward DX – particularly in digitalization resistance – remains underexplored. Building a theoretical framework based on the Technology Acceptance Model <jats:italic>and</jats:italic> Uses and Gratifications Theory, we dissect the potential interplay between user experiences within metaverses, individual value perceptions, and organizational support in shaping resistance to digitalization. Analyzing data from 309 employees within organizations actively using metaverse platforms for vocational interactions, we found that informativeness and social interaction within metaverses significantly enhance the perceived value of virtual platforms. This enhancement in perceived value correlates strongly with reduced resistance to digitalization, confirming the critical role of tailored user experiences in fostering technology acceptance. Furthermore, the results demonstrate that organizational support – represented by DX‐centric shared goals, visibility, and communication – plays a crucial moderating role in amplifying the inverse implications of individuals' value perception for digitalization resistance. This study contributes to the literature by expanding a theoretical understanding of the prolific orchestration among technological characteristics, individual perception, and organizational support for digitalization. It underscores the necessity for a strategic alignment that extends beyond technological implementation to include comprehensive support mechanisms, thereby aiding employees in productively capitalizing on digital technology to integrate it into their operational processes. These findings have practical implications for organizational leaders initiating digitalization, providing insights into effectively managing resistance to digitalization.","PeriodicalId":21040,"journal":{"name":"R&D Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141568435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Open social innovation in response to grand challenges: promotor influence as change agent","authors":"Gillian Barrett, Lawrence Dooley","doi":"10.1111/radm.12695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12695","url":null,"abstract":"Following on from the R&amp;D Management COVID‐19 two‐part special issue editorial, this paper strives to deepen our knowledge of Open Social Innovation (OSI) in such grand challenge contexts through exploring the promotor role(s) and interventions in managing temporary organisations. Through an exploration of three case studies that emerged from a bottom‐up perspective, in response to the COVID‐19 grand challenge, this study highlights the central role played by promotors in leveraging OSI projects. The core elements of the George et al. (2016) grand challenge framework are explored within the cases, through a promotor theory lens, to understand how the promotor roles (power, process, technology and relationship) influence the emergence of the temporary OSI organisation to enable a societal contribution. The research recognises the potential of OSI as a response to future grand challenges, highlighting the importance of management routines, such as communicating and articulating the need, adoption of project management practices, leveraging network ties through promotors' credibility and co‐ordinating partners (&amp; volunteers) for nurturing objective achievement. The research also highlights impediments that can curtail progress, which potentially impacts the longevity and outcomes of OSI. This study demonstrates the important role of promotors in initiating OSI communities to respond to grand challenges and given the complexity and enormity of the task, promotors must establish routines to engage and co‐ordinate a collective ecosystem, since they cannot execute alone. Thus, OSI communities require assistance from government and/or commercial entities to exploit and effectively co‐ordinate such OSI endeavours to ensure a meaningful contribution.","PeriodicalId":21040,"journal":{"name":"R&D Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141551079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Corporate governance and innovation: a predictive modeling approach using machine learning","authors":"Leonardo Henrique Lima de Pilla, Elaine Barbosa Couto Silveira, Fábio Caldieraro, Alketa Peci, Ishani Aggarwal","doi":"10.1111/radm.12703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12703","url":null,"abstract":"The examination of the associations between internal corporate governance (CG) mechanisms and innovation faces challenges due to nonlinear patterns and complex interactions. Consequently, existing literature rarely reaches a consensus on the directions or strengths of these relationships. Furthermore, to investigate the CG–innovation association, prior research has predominantly relied on explanatory modeling, which involves applying statistical models to data to test correlational or causal hypotheses about theoretical constructs. These are the reasons why it remains unclear whether internal CG mechanisms, when considered collectively as an extensive array of interconnected variables, offer valuable insights for accurately predicting innovation. To address this gap, we analyze a dataset of research and development (R&amp;D) projects from the Brazilian electricity sector by employing predictive modeling, which entails using statistical models or data mining algorithms to predict new observations, particularly using supervised machine learning (ML) methods. Our study demonstrates that a comprehensive set of variables representing internal CG mechanisms significantly enhances the predictive capabilities of ML algorithms for innovation. Furthermore, we illustrate how ML can illuminate nonlinear and non‐monotonic patterns, and interactions among variables, in the CG–innovation relationship. Our contribution to the literature encompasses three key aspects: introducing a predictive modeling approach to the discourse on the role of CG in innovation attainment through R&amp;D endeavors, which can complement and enrich existing explanatory research; investigating non‐linear and non‐monotonic relationships, as well as interactions, in innovation prediction; and affirming the emerging body of literature that recognizes supervised ML as a valuable tool accessible to management researchers.","PeriodicalId":21040,"journal":{"name":"R&D Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141526927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Who has an R&D investment opportunity? Who goes ahead? How much do they invest?","authors":"Marc Cowling, Weixi Liu, Tim Vorley","doi":"10.1111/radm.12700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12700","url":null,"abstract":"We know a lot about how much firms invest in R&amp;D, but less about the critical first step which is a potential R&amp;D opportunity. We use a large UK survey and detailed case study evidence to establish the chain of events from opportunity to the investment choice. Our results show that 34% of firms had identified an R&amp;D investment opportunity. Realised R&amp;D investment projects were typically between £100,000 and £1/2 m over a 5‐year window. The dominant factors were firm size, industry, equity investment, knowledge and absorptive capacity. The process of R&amp;D management also had an outward, market facing aspect, and an inward, engineering and financial aspect that were often conducted in parallel.","PeriodicalId":21040,"journal":{"name":"R&D Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141505580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The impact of product portfolio specialty and activeness on firm survival: evidence from the nascent drone industry","authors":"Indu Khurana, Dev K. Dutta","doi":"10.1111/radm.12696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12696","url":null,"abstract":"We examine the impact of product portfolio strategy on the likelihood of firm survival within the nascent unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or the drone industry. Using novel and representative global data on firms that operate within the domain of air platforms in the drone industry, our study captures a period of ferment in the industry as it went through significant change and began to acquire some level of stability. The results show that both portfolio specialty and activeness have a positive impact on firm survival. Specialist firms with narrow product usage or higher portfolio specialty are in an advantageous position compared to generalists with wide product usage or low portfolio specialty. They also have a higher likelihood of survival, overall. Similarly, a firm with a more active set of drones within its product portfolio also survives better. The results are consistent even after accounting for firm‐level controls and are robust to other model specifications. Our findings have important implications for firm strategy, positioning, and interaction with technology in nascent industries, especially relating to the development and deployment of new technologies and products.","PeriodicalId":21040,"journal":{"name":"R&D Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141197526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}