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{"title":"Impact of founder CEO and CEO ownership on entrepreneurial orientation, moderating role of CEO narcissism","authors":"Aiza Shabbir, S. Kousar","doi":"10.1108/APJIE-10-2018-0057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/APJIE-10-2018-0057","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000This study aims to explore the moderating impact of narcissism overload on the relation between founder CEO and entrepreneurial orientation (EO) in registered private schools of Pakistan.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000Data were collected through a stratified random sampling method with the help of previously validated questionnaires. A sample of 121 replies was gathered for analysis. SPSS has been used to find the results.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000Results depict that CEO narcissism moderates the relation between founder CEO and EO and does not moderate the relationship between and CEO ownership and EO.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000Many studies focused on the founder personality characteristics (such as generalized self-efficacy or locus of control) are not directly observed, but rather inferred their effect indirectly. The study contributes to examine how the founder CEO variable interacts with CEO personality to influence EO. This study will propose a practical approach to investigate whether and how the narcissism constructs moderate the founder CEO–EO relationship. Direct association between stock ownership and EO will also be examined.\u0000","PeriodicalId":45219,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2019-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/APJIE-10-2018-0057","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47562426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Empowering small industry of wood carving handicraft in Bangli district","authors":"A. Marhaeni, N. N. Yuliarmi, N. Setiawina","doi":"10.1108/APJIE-07-2018-0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/APJIE-07-2018-0045","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000The purpose of this study is to analyze the influence of social capital on human capital; the effect of social capital on transaction costs; the influence of social capital, human capital and transaction costs on empowerment; the indirect effect of social capital on empowerment through human capital; and the indirect effect of social capital on empowerment through transaction costs in Bangli Regency.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000The population in this research is all wood carving business in Bangli Regency, in all districts some 366 business units. The number of respondents surveyed were 191 business units in all sub-districts. The sampling technique used is stratified random sampling, with strata of business area. Inferential analysis is preceded by using factor analysis techniques to obtain factor scores on each latent variable, followed by path analysis to answer the research objectives.\u0000\u0000\u0000Finding\u0000Based on the analysis, the following conclusions are drawn: social capital has a positive and significant impact on human resources; positive social capital and significant positive to transaction costs; social capital and human resources have a positive and significant effect while transaction costs and no significant positive effect on empowerment; human resources partially mediate the influence of social capital on empowerment; and transaction costs do not act as a variable, mediating the influence of social capital on empowering small woodcraft industry in Bangli Regency.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000This study is one of the few to investigate the role of social capital, human capital and transaction cost on empowerment of small industries, especially wood carving in Bangli District. This small woodcraft industry is famous for its uniqueness that characterizes Balinese carving ornaments. But lately, the productivity of handicrafts wood carving, especially in Bangli District, fluctuates tend to decline. Social capital, in addition to human capital and technology, also plays an important role in the production process. Social capital equals other physical capital and can increase productivity and economic efficiency. Higher social capital owned by individuals or groups can reduce transaction costs; thus economic activity can run efficiently. Social capital is the information, trust and norms of reciprocity inherent in social networks.\u0000","PeriodicalId":45219,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2019-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/APJIE-07-2018-0045","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42221982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Does innovation capabilities affect the new service innovation success among Pakistani cellular companies?","authors":"Malkah Noor Kiani, Syed Hussain Mustafa, Mehboob Ahmad","doi":"10.1108/APJIE-10-2018-0058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/APJIE-10-2018-0058","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose\u0000In today’s Pakistan, the emergence of new forms of business in collaboration with the mobile service providers is bringing a big difference, not only in every walk of life but also in digital economy of the country. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to explore what are the factors that determine the success rate of new innovative services in cultural context of mobile service providers of Pakistan.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000Data have been collected from 397 employees of cellular firms of Pakistan by using the simple random sampling strategy. The gathered data were analyzed by using the regression-based process approach of Hayes and Preacher (2014).\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000The results indicated that innovation capabilities and service innovation have significant positive effect on the short-term, long-term and indirect success of the service innovation. It was also found that the service innovation mediates the relationship among the capabilities to innovate and service innovation success rate. The findings of this research work are beneficial for the practitioners of cellular firms of Pakistan.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000The value of this research work is evident from the fact that this research work attempts to address some identified gaps of existing body of literature. This research work provides some key insights for practitioners and also discusses the new avenues for future researches.","PeriodicalId":45219,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2019-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/APJIE-10-2018-0058","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45696508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Entrepreneurial knowledge, skills, competencies and performance","authors":"A. Mamun, Syed Ali Fazal, Rajennd Muniady","doi":"10.1108/apjie-11-2018-0067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/apjie-11-2018-0067","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000This study aims to examine the effect of entrepreneurial skills, market orientation, sales orientations and networking on entrepreneurial competency and performance of micro-enterprises in Kelantan, Malaysia.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000Adopting a cross-sectional design, this paper collected data through structured interviews from 403 micro-entrepreneurs from “Majlis Amanah Rakyat,” Kelantan and “Majlis Agama Islam dan Adat Istiadat,” Kelantan.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000The findings reveal that entrepreneurial skills, market orientation and networking have a positive effect on entrepreneurial competency. Then, entrepreneurial competency, entrepreneurial skills and networking have a positive effect on enterprise performance. The findings show a significant mediation effect of entrepreneurial competency on the relationships between entrepreneurial skills, market orientation and networking and enterprise performance.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000Addressing the understudied “human factor” in entrepreneurship, this paper extends the resource-based view and enriches the existing entrepreneurship literature in Malaysia. It provides useful insights into the improvement of micro-enterprise performance, which is crucial for promoting entrepreneurial activities and for enhancing socio-economic conditions among low-income households in Malaysia. Thus, the government and developmental organizations should focus on the development of entrepreneurial skills, market-oriented approach, networking traits and entrepreneurial competencies and subsequently encourage poor households to perform entrepreneurial activities.\u0000","PeriodicalId":45219,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2019-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/apjie-11-2018-0067","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41455286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Contradictory results on environmental concern while re-visiting green purchase awareness and behavior","authors":"M. I. Malik, F. Mir, S. Hussain, S. Hyder, Asim Anwar, Zia Khan, Noman Nawab, Syed Qasim Ali Shah, M. Waseem","doi":"10.1108/APJIE-11-2018-0061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/APJIE-11-2018-0061","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000This paper aims to examine the mediating role of environmental concern in the relationship of green purchase awareness and purchasing behavior of fast food consumers keeping in view the theory of planned behavior.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000A quantitative, cross-sectional design is used by collecting primary responses through a validated questionnaire. In all, 1,008 male and female buyers of fast food were sampled. Structural equation modeling is applied.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000The results revealed that green purchase awareness has a positive relationship with green purchase behavior, and environmental concern has no mediation in the relationship. Upon having awareness, the respondents adopted green or pro-environmental behavior, but at the same time, they were found having least concern for the protection of environment.\u0000\u0000\u0000Research limitations/implications\u0000This is a cross-sectional study with questionnaire. Multiple sources of data collection results in weakening self-reporting bias.\u0000\u0000\u0000Practical implications\u0000Implications count toward individuals, enterprises and society at general.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000The study highlights the issue of not having concern for the protection of the environment even after having green purchase awareness. This is the first time the environmental concern is examined as a mediator in the selected relationship. The contradictory results of having no environmental concern differentiate this study from others.\u0000","PeriodicalId":45219,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/APJIE-11-2018-0061","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42318170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Individual social entrepreneurship orientation: towards development of a measurement scale","authors":"Mir Shahid Satar, S. Natasha","doi":"10.1108/APJIE-09-2018-0052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/APJIE-09-2018-0052","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000While the literature has described social entrepreneurs as overwhelmingly occupying a pivotal role in social entrepreneurship (S-ENT) process, there is a high inconsistency prevailing with respect to entrepreneurial traits, attitudes and skills of social entrepreneurs. One explanation for this may be the lack of a suitable scale measuring entrepreneurship orientation of social entrepreneurial individuals. The purpose of this study is to address this gap by proposing an initial assessment tool for individual S-ENT orientation (ISEO).\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000A mixed methods research design, along with a two-stage Delphi process, helped in generating appropriate constructs for ISEO. While the items for the first dimension of scale were directly derived from the Delphi study, the items of the remaining dimensions were mainly found based on the three individual entrepreneurial orientation dimensions presented by Bolton and Lane. By means of exploratory factor analysis, the final examination of the ISEO items was undertaken through a survey of 71 social entrepreneurs across India. The process eventually resulted in reliable and valid measures for four dimensions of ISEO.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000The scale-development process eventually resulted in a 13-item scale, measuring four dimensions of ISEO (social passion, innovativeness, risk-taking and pro-activeness). By developing a set of relevant ISEO indicators, the study answers the call for a scale development of ISEO in S-ENT literature.\u0000\u0000\u0000Research limitations/implications\u0000There is a need to further validate this instrument among other stakeholders (students) as well as in samples with different demographic characteristics across different regions of the country and the world. To further evaluate the reliability and validity properties and to confirm the newly established subscales and their relationship with the ISEO construct, there is need for conducting a confirmatory factor analysis using larger sample sizes.\u0000\u0000\u0000Practical implications\u0000The measurement of SEO at an individual level will assist in S-ENT education, training and development of present and prospective social entrepreneurs, as well as assist individuals who want to assess the strength of their orientation towards S-ENT. The understanding of ISEO at the individual level will be equally useful for S-ENT incubators, the government and other S-ENT stakeholders who are considering supporting S-ENT proposals.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000The paper is the first to develop an ISEO scale which is based on empirical data in S-ENT field.\u0000","PeriodicalId":45219,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/APJIE-09-2018-0052","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48964544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The impact of ethical leadership on service innovation behavior","authors":"F. Özsungur","doi":"10.1108/APJIE-12-2018-0073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/APJIE-12-2018-0073","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000Ethical leadership is at the forefront of what matters in today’s business life and current issues, with a view to making strong moral decisions through bilateral communication. Service innovation behavior is important in terms of individual and institutional actions in the process of producing and implementing new ideas. Investigating the mediating role of psychological capital which consists of self-efficacy, optimism, hope and psychological endurance dimensions, between ethical leadership and service innovation behavior, is a matter to be investigated. This study aims to assess the impact of ethical leadership on service innovation behavior by means of a comprehensive literature review. In this framework, psychological capital forms the scope of researching the mediating role.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000This study was conducted with 376 blue-collar workers randomly selected from 140 company which were selected from 1,294 joint stock companies among 76,882 companies operating in the province of Adana in Turkey and registered in the Adana Chamber of Commerce, by applying a questionnaire of 40 items.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000As a result of the factor analysis, 6 items which could not provide reliability were extracted from the scale and the remaining 34 items were distributed in three factors and the validity of the construct validity was measured by the convergence and divergence methods. Construct reliability (CR) values were found to be statistically significant (SRMR: 0.50, RMSEA = 0.058, IFI: 0.955, CFI = 0.97, GFI = 0.96, AGFI = 0.86, TLI = 0.97, χ2/s.d. = 2.264) when it was above 0.7, and the structural equation model determined that the research data and the initially determined model are compatible. Ethical leadership has a significant effect on psychological capital (ß = 0.224, p < 0.001), ethical leadership has a significant effect on innovation (ß = 0.113, p < 0.001), psychological capital was found to have a significant influence on service innovation (ß = 0.965, p < 0.001), and ethical leadership was mediated by psychological capital on service innovation behavior (SIE = 0.235).\u0000\u0000\u0000Research limitations/implications\u0000Further research is needed to assess conducting research in enterprises with different cultural characteristics. This paper provides the effectiveness of ethical leadership and psychological capital factors, which are effective in improving employee service innovation behavior and enabling managers to develop human resources strategies in this respect.\u0000\u0000\u0000Practical implications\u0000The results provide the impact of ethical leadership on the productivity of employees in the workplace and provide practical benefits in terms of developing innovation-oriented service development behaviors.\u0000\u0000\u0000Social implications\u0000The innovative behaviors of the employees enable the development of innovative ideas in social life by contributing to consumer satisfaction and economy. Ethical leadership ensures positive behaviors in the society by ensuring","PeriodicalId":45219,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2019-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/APJIE-12-2018-0073","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42798219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Diffusion of innovation through individual and collective entrepreneurship","authors":"H. Makhdoom, Cai Li, Shoaib Asim","doi":"10.1108/APJIE-06-2018-0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/APJIE-06-2018-0040","url":null,"abstract":"PurposeThis paper aims to develop an original framework of innovation and to explore the complexity of association between individual and collective (team-based) entrepreneurship, and their simultaneous impacts on innovation in context of small and medium enterprises (SMEs).Design/methodology/approachAn integral theoretical framework is developed to encourage innovation and the hypothetical relations are tested with the help of structural equation modeling (SEM) through AMOS. Data were gathered through survey technique and the questioners were distributed through email among 700 entrepreneurs from SMEs operating in five major industrial cities of Punjab province Pakistan.FindingsThe results of SEM analyses confirm that both the individual entrepreneur and the collective efforts of all the business members contribute to innovation in SMEs. Entrepreneur’s personality traits have a direct positive impact on innovation while the centralized decision-making by entrepreneur is not associated with innovation. Centralized decision-making is found to be negatively associated with communication and have insignificant positive association with collaboration. Factors associated with the team-based entrepreneurship like communication and collaboration among members of the SME’s contribute to the entrepreneurial orientation and collective entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial orientation and collective entrepreneurship have direct positive impact on innovation in SMEs.Practical implicationsIt is imperative for SMEs to encourage decentralized organizational culture and participative leadership to bring innovation into their products and processes and further to improve their competitive advantage.Originality/valueTo the best of author knowledge, present study is a first attempt that explores the complex association between individual and team-based entrepreneurship and further, empirically investigate the simultaneous impacts of these variables on innovation in context of SMEs.","PeriodicalId":45219,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2019-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/APJIE-06-2018-0040","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43289410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Corporate entrepreneurship as a strategic approach for internal innovation performance","authors":"Cheng Tseng, Chien-Chi Tseng","doi":"10.1108/APJIE-08-2018-0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/APJIE-08-2018-0047","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000The purpose of this paper is to explore corporate entrepreneurship and the relationship between intrapreneurship and the proposed strategic models through a literature review. This paper reviews the strategic approach for increasing internal innovation performance at corporations.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000Key words were identified to use in the literature search: corporate entrepreneurship, innovation performance and entrepreneurial environment. Then, all of the several electronic databases available in the university’s electronic library, including Harvard Business Review and The University of Chicago Press, as well as journals, books, Google Scholar and other institutional resources.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000The six innovative outcomes are motivating individuals to engage in innovative behavior, concentrating entrepreneurial ventures through a newly minted organization within a corporation, helping innovative-minded people to reach their full potential, rewarding a corporate entrepreneur, encouraging people to look at the organization from a broad perspective and educating employees about corporate entrepreneurship.\u0000\u0000\u0000Research limitations/implications\u0000The study was exploratory, based on a literature review. Further studies are needed using empirical research to examine why corporate entrepreneurship was attributed to be the strategic approach for internal innovation performance.\u0000\u0000\u0000Practical implications\u0000By implementing the strategic approaches, corporate management professionals can realize their entrepreneurial intentions for the firm and maintain their responsibility to shareholders in terms of other business and development goals.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000The research constructs an input-process-output framework that minimizes external mergers and acquisitions and maximizes internal innovation performance. Value was created when corporate entrepreneurship was identified as a strategic approach for internal innovation performance.\u0000","PeriodicalId":45219,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2019-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/APJIE-08-2018-0047","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48937747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Time to get into the action","authors":"Juhi Raghuvanshi, C. P. Garg","doi":"10.1108/APJIE-06-2018-0041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/APJIE-06-2018-0041","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000The aim of this study is to identify and rank the factors of innovation capability (IC) in Indian micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). This study focuses on ascertaining the important factors that help in enhancing the IC with an emblematic focus on the MSME sector of India.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000This paper proposes a multicriteria decision-making methodology, which is based on fuzzy analytic hierarchical process to prioritize the factors that enhance the IC of MSMEs. Finally, sensitivity analysis is conducted to examine the ranking stability.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000Knowledge management is the most important enabler, followed by creativity and idea management and organizational culture.\u0000\u0000\u0000Practical implications\u0000Several organizations promote the strategic measures for enhancing the IC. To increase their capability to innovate, there is a need to identify, acknowledge and implement the drivers of IC into practice.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000Prioritization done in the study facilitates the entrepreneurs to determine the most important factors that need crucial attention in dealing with sensitive issues of IC. Entrepreneurs can take several steps to implement the most important factors for enhancing the IC into practices for meeting the needs of the consumers, generating profits and enhancing the competitiveness.\u0000","PeriodicalId":45219,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2018-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/APJIE-06-2018-0041","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46438932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}