Vladimir Dzenopoljac , Aleksandra Dzenopoljac , Jasmina Ognjanovic , Sascha Kraus , Kaisu Puumalainen
{"title":"From sharing to shaping: Role of knowledge quality and ambidexterity in SME innovation performance","authors":"Vladimir Dzenopoljac , Aleksandra Dzenopoljac , Jasmina Ognjanovic , Sascha Kraus , Kaisu Puumalainen","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100838","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100838","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the role of knowledge sharing quality (QKS) in shaping innovation performance within small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), emphasizing the mediating effects of organizational ambidexterity. Drawing on the knowledge-based view and dynamic capabilities perspective, we propose that the extent and quality of knowledge shared—specifically its accuracy, relevance, and actionability—critically influence innovation outcomes. Survey data from 260 SME managers in Serbia were analyzed through structural equation modeling. The findings reveal that tacit knowledge sharing significantly enhances QKS, whereas explicit knowledge sharing does not. Furthermore, QKS positively affects innovation performance. Critically, exploitative and explorative ambidexterity mediate this relationship—the capacity to balance refinement and exploration is essential for translating high-quality knowledge into innovation success. These results extend prior research by unpacking the mechanisms through which SMEs can convert knowledge resources into innovation capability. Implications for theory and practice are discussed, offering actionable insights for SME leaders seeking to foster innovation through strategic knowledge management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"10 6","pages":"Article 100838"},"PeriodicalIF":15.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145254516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ruben Huertas-Garcia , Laura Sáez-Ortuño , Santiago Forgas-Coll , Javier Sánchez-García
{"title":"Applying knowledge transfer in data augmentation to improve online advertising performance of entrepreneurs","authors":"Ruben Huertas-Garcia , Laura Sáez-Ortuño , Santiago Forgas-Coll , Javier Sánchez-García","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100828","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100828","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the way businesses operate, enabling entrepreneurs to achieve diagnoses that were once only possible for large companies. This transformation is evident in digital advertising, where AI not only enables advanced analytics, but also offers the possibility of developing creative designs at low cost. However, this technological progress contrasts with predictions of a slowdown in online advertising in the coming years. Thus, entrepreneurs must change their strategies to overcome the defensive positions of competitors. This study proposes the combination of AI analytical algorithms (XGBoost) with data augmentation algorithms (SMOTE) to improve targeting accuracy when launching online communication campaigns. Specifically, a case study illustrates how a lead-gathering company uses these algorithms to profile five market segments (hearing aids, NGOs, energy distributors, telecommunications and finance). Subsequently, a field experiment was conducted with one of the products, solar panels, to assess external validity. The results reveal that the combination of both algorithms improves internal validity for four of the five products, and the field experiment confirms the external validity of the energy product. Finally, recommendations on the use of these tools are proposed to entrepreneurs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"10 6","pages":"Article 100828"},"PeriodicalIF":15.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145254689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Art of innovating in the arts: Disentangling determinants of technological and symbolic innovations in creative industries— Evidence from Canadian museums","authors":"Paulin Gohoungodji , Nabil Amara","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100824","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100824","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the factors driving innovation in museums by incorporating both technological and symbolic innovations. Unlike previous research, it employs a comprehensive set of determinants to examine their impact on technological and symbolic innovations. Based on data from 250 Canadian museums and a multivariate path model, we simultaneously estimate eight types of innovations, four types of technological innovations (product, process, organizational, marketing) and four types of symbolic innovations (artistic, aesthetic, cultural, audience). The findings indicate that innovation appears to emerge through complex interplays between internal capabilities, market responsiveness, and external relationships. Resource-related factors such as technological infrastructure, financial assets, and artistic capabilities show differentiated impacts across types of innovation, suggesting that in museums, innovation is not uniformly resource-driven. Human capital, artistic creativity, and R&D investments demonstrate more limited or selective effects. Market orientation, particularly visitor orientation, emerges as a relevant driver of symbolic innovations, while custodial orientation, collaboration, and co-creation strategies have weaker or isolated impacts. Hence, the determinants differ across types of innovation, with some being specific to particular types thereof. Moreover, the study reveals complementarities between several pairs of types of innovation including Process and Aesthetic innovation, Artistic and Cultural innovation, and Aesthetic and Audience innovation. Finally, the degrees of complementarity between technological innovations are higher than those between symbolic innovations. These findings highlight the complex and contingent nature of innovation in museums, underlining, for museum managers, the importance of resource alignment, market-driven orientation, and external engagement strategies for successful innovation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"10 6","pages":"Article 100824"},"PeriodicalIF":15.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145221762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artificial intelligence innovation to sustainable knowledge: The dual role of enterprise resilience","authors":"Shaofeng Wang , Liang Ma , Feifei Hao , Hao Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100832","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100832","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) presents unprecedented opportunities for knowledge creation and sustainable innovation in global digital commerce. This study investigates how AI orchestration capability generates new forms of knowledge that drive sustainable development in cross-border e-commerce multinational enterprises, with enterprise resilience serving as a critical knowledge transformation mechanism. Drawing on resource orchestration theory and employing a mixed-methods approach, we analyze data from 444 enterprises across China and Europe using partial least squares-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM), importance–performance map analysis, and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), and executive interviews. Our findings reveal that AI orchestration capability—encompassing planning, integration, and reconfiguration dimensions—creates actionable knowledge that significantly enhances sustainable development both directly and indirectly through enterprise resilience. Enterprise resilience emerges as a dual-function capability that not only mediates knowledge flows between AI systems and sustainability outcomes but also amplifies the innovation potential of AI-generated insights. Regional analysis uncovers distinct knowledge creation pathways: Chinese enterprises excel at transforming AI capabilities into resilience-based knowledge, while European firms demonstrate superior translation of resilience-derived knowledge into sustainability innovations. Configurational analysis identifies multiple equifinal combinations of AI capabilities and resilience dimensions that generate high-impact sustainable innovations. This research advances our understanding of how digital technologies create enduring knowledge for sustainability, offering novel theoretical insights into innovation–knowledge dynamics and practical guidance for leveraging AI as a catalyst for sustainable business transformation in the digital economy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"10 6","pages":"Article 100832"},"PeriodicalIF":15.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145221763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reyes Gonzalez, Jose Gasco, Juan Llopis, Susana De Juana-Espinosa
{"title":"Knowledge about the impact of telework on management and business: A conceptual study","authors":"Reyes Gonzalez, Jose Gasco, Juan Llopis, Susana De Juana-Espinosa","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100827","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100827","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The need remains for a review of the literature devoted to telework, due to the exponential growth of this work format, as well as to the consequent increase in the number of publications about it. For this reason, the aim sought with this study consists in analysing the literature on telework from a Management and Business perspective. For that purpose, we examined 156 articles taken from the Social Science Citation database of the Web of Science. A content analysis about the articles in question was likewise performed in order to determine the topics underlying the telework phenomenon as a whole. The journals related to Organisation, Psychology, Technological Innovation, Gender and even Ethics also discussed these themes, revealing the transversal nature and the manifold implications of this labour modality. The main limitation faced in this research has to do with the way to select the papers under study, which can leave aside important publications dealing with telework, insofar as books, papers presented at conferences and other types of non-academic works have not been considered. The model proposed from the literature review makes it possible to see that the implementation of teleworking has had both clearly positive consequences ―e.g. staff retention, innovation and flexibility― and negative ones, among them loss of privacy, higher discrimination, stress or the isolation of the teleworker, along with variables that present ambiguous values suggesting positive as well as negative effects, such as the relationships between telework and performance, or between the former and the work/life balance, or also between teleworking and the satisfaction/well-being of the individuals who carry out this activity. The model, which can be utilised and tested in future research works, includes effects which, due to their ambiguity, require further research and deeper understanding.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"10 6","pages":"Article 100827"},"PeriodicalIF":15.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145159709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Longfei Li , Junnan Zhang , Chao Liu , Yuyue Guan , Wan Kang
{"title":"Knowledge creation network in response to crisis: A static–dynamic framework for innovation network resilience from a dual-risk perspective","authors":"Longfei Li , Junnan Zhang , Chao Liu , Yuyue Guan , Wan Kang","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100825","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100825","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>It is essential to comprehend the feature and improvement path that supports the resilience of innovation networks under multiple crisis shocks. Studies have primarily examined the impact of network features on sustainable innovation outcomes yet overlooked the inter-organisational resilience feature of these networks. This study presents a measurement system to analyse resilience features in China’s new energy vehicle industry (NEVI) cooperative innovation network. To evaluate the evolution of network structures and functionality, this system integrates the static–dynamic framework, capturing static and dynamic impacts. The exponential random graph model is used to investigate the improvement path of innovation network resilience in the NEVI. Findings reveal that, from the perspective of static network resilience, the transportability of the innovation network decreases, while the level of aggregation remains high. From the perspective of dynamic network resilience, nodes with high transitivity and diffusion abilities significantly enhance the efficiency and scale stability of the NEVI’s innovation network. Improved network resilience is influenced by self-organisation, individual attribute, and exogenous network effects. This study enriches the literature on maintaining stability and sustainable development of innovation networks. It illustrates how to measure and improve the resilience of innovation networks to aid recovery from crises.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"10 6","pages":"Article 100825"},"PeriodicalIF":15.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145159712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Technology-driven green governance in low-carbon cities: policy innovation and employment effects","authors":"Yan Wu , Jinye Li , Xinfang Deng","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100823","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100823","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As the main objective of a low-carbon transition policy is to achieve green and sustainable development and since employment is related to people's livelihoods, will the low-carbon transition affect employment? Based on data from 2000–2022 for prefecture-level cities and above, we use in this paper a multiperiod difference-in-difference approach to assess the employment impacts of two different low-carbon transition policies: the low-carbon city pilot (LCCP) and the carbon emissions trading pilot (CETP). We found that both the LCCP and the CETP have positive effects on urban employment and that the marginal utility of the CETP on employment is greater than that of the LCCP. From the perspective of green sustainability, this paper reveals that the two low-carbon transition policies (LCTPs) increase urban employment through three green mechanisms: the green factor input expansion effect, the green technology creation effect and the green product demand effect. Both LCTPs have distinctly different and complementary employment impacts in different sectors, regions, and cities of different scales. The synergies between the LCTPs and data factors have a more obvious marginal effect on “stabilizing employment” and “stabilizing growth”. This paper's findings provide empirical evidence to better understand the relationship between sustainable development and employment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"10 6","pages":"Article 100823"},"PeriodicalIF":15.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145159710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Md Zahidul Islam , Md. Shamim Hossain , Mohammad Bin Amin , Md. Mourtuza Ahamed , Judit Oláh
{"title":"The asymmetric impacts of remittances on innovation in middle-income economies: A nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag approach","authors":"Md Zahidul Islam , Md. Shamim Hossain , Mohammad Bin Amin , Md. Mourtuza Ahamed , Judit Oláh","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100817","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100817","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Innovation is essential for promoting long-term growth in middle-income countries (MICs). Amid growing remittance inflows, understanding how these financial transfers influence innovation outcomes has become increasingly important; however, the prevailing literature overlooks the impact of remittances on innovation, mainly their asymmetrical effect. To address this gap, we employ the nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag approach and the Dumitrescu–Hurlin causality test. Specifically, we investigate the asymmetric effects of positive and negative remittance shocks on innovation in MICs over the short and long run, using panel data from 1996 to 2022. The study employs second-generation panel unit root tests to verify stationarity and second-generation cointegration analysis, confirming a stable long-term relationship among variables. Our findings indicate that positive remittance shocks stimulate innovation, while negative shocks have a detrimental impact. We also explore the significant positive association between innovation and key economic factors, including gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, CO2 emissions, financial development, and capital stock. These results can help policymakers design targeted policies that boost the economic benefits of remittance flows by aligning them with innovation-driven growth initiatives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"10 6","pages":"Article 100817"},"PeriodicalIF":15.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145159711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digital technology and synergistic emissions reduction: CEOs’ green experience","authors":"Lingli Qing , Lin Ma , Zhiyang Shen","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100821","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100821","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Attaining simultaneous reductions in pollution and carbon emissions is essential for addressing global environmental challenges in line with the Sustainable Development Goals. While digital technology is often cited as a key driver, its firm-level impact on this dual objective remains empirically underexplored. This study fills this gap by examining how digitalization enables firms to simultaneously reduce pollution and carbon emissions. Integrating the natural resource-based view and upper echelons theory, this study employs a staggered difference-in-differences methodology using panel data from 2962 Chinese A-share listed companies in the period of 2010–2022. Our findings show that digital technology significantly promotes synergistic emissions reduction. Specifically, a one-unit increase in digitalization corresponds to a 1.22 % reduction in pollution and a 3.90 % reduction in carbon emissions. This positive effect is amplified in firms led by CEOs with prior environmental experience. These results provide valuable insights into how digital technology contributes to the advancement of sustainability initiatives. They also highlight its potential to drive progress in corporate environmental management and encourage its broader adoption for sustainable development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"10 6","pages":"Article 100821"},"PeriodicalIF":15.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145119445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Senuri Disara Siriwardhana , Robert C. Moehler , Yihai Fang
{"title":"Construction 4.0 in Australia: Evaluating technological implementation, organisational adaptation and skills development","authors":"Senuri Disara Siriwardhana , Robert C. Moehler , Yihai Fang","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100822","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100822","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the determinants shaping Construction 4.0 adoption in the Australian construction sector, with a focus on organisational integration and workforce skills development. Drawing on the technology-organisation-environment (TOE), resource-based view (RBV) and socio-technical systems (STS) frameworks, the study explores how organisational readiness, skills capability and contextual infrastructure influence digital transformation. After conducting semi-structured interviews with 23 industry experts, findings reveal that while technologies such as building information modelling (BIM) and drones are gaining traction, others like artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT), robotics and 3D printing remain underutilised or siloed. Barriers include fragmented technology integration, resistance to change, limited governance and widespread digital skills gaps, particularly among small firms and in regional areas. The study highlights the need for coordinated national strategies, improved training systems and collaborative ecosystems to enable sector-wide transformation. Practical recommendations include national digital standards, micro-credential training programmes and industry–government–academia partnerships. The findings offer theoretical and practical insights relevant to Australia and other advanced economies navigating Construction 4.0 transitions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"10 6","pages":"Article 100822"},"PeriodicalIF":15.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145120053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}