{"title":"Digging through AI-assisted HRM, business models, and innovation strategies toward sustainable initiatives","authors":"Zhenjiang Dou, Fiza Amjad, Muhammad Mohsin","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2026.101120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jik.2026.101120","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"32 1","pages":"101120"},"PeriodicalIF":18.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148717349","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":"The digital innovation dilemma: A double-edged sword for employment and competitiveness","authors":"Xiaozhong Yang, Jiaqi Du, Enguang Miao","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2026.101113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jik.2026.101113","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"15 1","pages":"101113"},"PeriodicalIF":18.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148717319","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 trade and the dynamics of green innovation efficiency: A dual-stage analysis of research and development and its transformation","authors":"Fang Zhao, Miao Zhang, Shiying Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2026.101136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jik.2026.101136","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"18 1","pages":"101136"},"PeriodicalIF":18.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148717317","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}
Hareem Arshad, Anna Josefien Dreischerf, Dolores Modic, Eugenia Rosca
{"title":"Collaborative knowledge building for innovation: insights from market engagement in circular public procurement","authors":"Hareem Arshad, Anna Josefien Dreischerf, Dolores Modic, Eugenia Rosca","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2026.101129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jik.2026.101129","url":null,"abstract":"The transition to a circular economy requires organizations to develop and integrate new knowledge, often in collaboration with external stakeholders. Recent evidence suggests that organizations capable of leveraging and integrating knowledge with third-party actors are better positioned to develop innovative circular solutions. However, the processes through which collaborative knowledge building occurs remain poorly understood. Drawing on the knowledge-based view, this study examines how organizations build and mobilize knowledge for circular innovation across organizational boundaries. We study these processes in the context of circular public procurement, in which public and private actors interact to exchange and combine complementary knowledge to develop circular solutions. We propose a framework for collaborative knowledge building in complex interaction settings, based on qualitative data from market engagement initiatives in Denmark and Sweden. The framework unpacks three knowledge functions as modalities of collaborative knowledge building: knowledge integration, knowledge co-development, and knowledge sharing, each characterized by distinct interaction mechanisms and knowledge artifacts. Our contribution lies in elaborating on the collaborative knowledge building approach and clarifying its role in driving innovative circular solutions.","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"454 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148693168","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":"Customs digitalization as governance innovation: Impacts on industrial value added via trade and FDI","authors":"Xiaotong Niu, Yuedi Yang, Nicoleta-Claudia Moldovan, Raluca Ioana Racataian","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2026.101128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jik.2026.101128","url":null,"abstract":"In an increasingly complex international trade environment with growing security threats, improving gross value added in industry (GVA) has attracted considerable attention from policymakers and researchers. Using data from European Union (EU) member states, this research examines whether customs administration digitalization (CAD) can be viewed as an effective tool for improving the competitiveness and productivity of the industrial sector. The results show that CAD offers new opportunities for productivity growth in industry, and this favourable impact is closely related to a critical threshold. Moreover, we find that CAD has a positive impact on GVA by facilitating international trade flows and attracting more foreign investment. This demonstrates that trade in goods and services (Trade) and net foreign investment (NFI) are two transmission mechanisms. Moreover, regional heterogeneity analysis reveals significant differences in CAD’s effectiveness across regions of Europe. Based on these findings, the study provides useful insights for EU member states to use digital customs reform to reduce administrative costs, improve the security of the trade environment and drive productivity in the industrial sector.","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148693235","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":"Knowledge innovation mix and innovation-driven productivity","authors":"Pingyu Yang, Weilun Huang","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2026.101135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jik.2026.101135","url":null,"abstract":"This study develops a theoretical framework for optimising knowledge innovation portfolios by extending the production function to incorporate cognitive adaptation costs, piecewise interaction effects, and heterogeneous knowledge depreciation across basic research, applied innovation, and fusion innovation. Numerical optimisation under the baseline parameter calibration indicates that a balanced allocation approximating an equal distribution [0.333, 0.333, 0.333] outperforms traditional science-heavy strategies [0.50, 0.35, 0.15]. Robustness analysis confirms this qualitative pattern across reasonable variations in depreciation rates and interaction parameters. This finding reflects context-dependent optimisation, conditional on the assumed heterogeneous depreciation structure and piecewise interaction effects, rather than a universally applicable prescription. Three counterintuitive insights emerge: excessive concentration in basic research leads to productivity losses; simultaneous, balanced ‘leapfrogging’ strategies dominate sequential catching-up paths; and fusion innovation yields disproportionately high marginal returns despite receiving smaller optimal allocations due to cross-domain synergies. Dynamic and sensitivity analyses validate the heterogeneous depreciation mechanism and confirm the robustness of optimal allocation structures under parameter uncertainty. Based on these findings, the study provides actionable guidance for organisations and governments, emphasising gradual transitions towards balanced portfolios and a reorientation of public funding towards applied and fusion innovation. Overall, the results advance innovation theory and policy through a structural shift from linear specialisation models to dynamic portfolio optimisation grounded in knowledge heterogeneity, differential depreciation, and interaction synergies.","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148693234","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":"How do social capital in collaborative R&D network and cohesion of knowledge network shape firm innovation resilience?","authors":"Li Zheng, Yun Li, Yong Xu, Xuelian Yu","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2026.101124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jik.2026.101124","url":null,"abstract":"The formation mechanism of firm innovation resilience is influenced by the synergistic effects of resource-related factors in the collaborative research and development (R&D) network and structural factors in the internal knowledge network. Using the Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis method, this study selects 119 automobile manufacturing enterprises as the sample to investigate the configurations formed by the alignment of social capital in collaborative R&D network (structural capital, relationship breadth, relationship strength, cognitive capital) and cohesion of the knowledge network (local cohesion, global cohesion). The results reveal three configurational paths for achieving high firm innovation resilience: “core technology-driven,” “heterogeneous resource-driven,” and “relational-cognitive capital accumulation.” Additionally, “social capital deficiency” and “knowledge base deficiency” are identified as reasons for the absence of high firm innovation resilience. The study confirms that no single antecedent condition is necessary for achieving high firm innovation resilience. It supports the multi-network theory’s explanation of firm innovation and advances research on social capital and the knowledge-based view by examining how the structure of social capital and knowledge networks enhances firm innovation resilience.","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"125 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148693239","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":"Climbing to the top: How female and male coinventors shape the rise of star innovators","authors":"Federico Caviggioli, Alessandra Colombelli, Chiara Ravetti","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2026.101126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jik.2026.101126","url":null,"abstract":"The persistent underrepresentation of women in innovation systems may entail the loss of high-potential inventors, that is, the future \"stars\" of technological advancement. As innovation increasingly arises from team-based efforts within and across organizations, understanding how gender shapes collaborations and the emergence of top innovators is critical. In this article, we investigate the time it takes an inventor to become a star in their field and the relationship with the gender and star status of their coinventors. Tracking 100,000 inventors who filed their first patent in 2000 over a 20-year period, we find that female inventors and those that collaborate with female coinventors take significantly longer to reach stardom in their innovative output. Conversely, a higher share of star coinventors, regardless of their gender, is associated with a faster transition. Notably, female inventors experience an additional acceleration in becoming stars when they patent together with male star coinventors, but not necessarily with female stars. These findings underscore the importance of gendered team dynamics and peer effects in shaping careers centered on technological and scientific breakthroughs, and they point to the importance of organizational and managerial levers in addressing gender-based disparities in innovation outcomes.","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148693238","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 transformation and firm performance in manufacturing: The role of servitization and corporate entrepreneurship","authors":"Moonju Nam, Youngha Chang","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2026.101115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jik.2026.101115","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines how digital transformation translates into firm performance in manufacturing by addressing the digital transformation paradox through interdependent knowledge mechanisms. Drawing on the knowledge-based view and integrating perspectives on knowledge management and absorptive capacity, the study proposes and tests a sequential pathway in which digital transformation enables servitization, servitization fosters corporate entrepreneurship, and corporate entrepreneurship ultimately drives firm performance. Survey data from 130 South Korean manufacturing firms were analyzed using PLS-SEM, controlling for knowledge and technology intensity, research and development intensity, firm size, firm age, and geographic location. Results show that digital transformation significantly enhances servitization, servitization significantly promotes corporate entrepreneurship, and corporate entrepreneurship significantly improves firm performance. By contrast, the direct links between digital transformation and firm performance, and between servitization and firm performance, are not significant; only the sequential pathway linking digital transformation to firm performance through servitization and corporate entrepreneurship is supported. This study contributes to theory by clarifying the digital transformation paradox through a layered knowledge-based framework that frames digital transformation as a knowledge infrastructure, servitization as a knowledge interface rather than a direct performance driver, and corporate entrepreneurship as a knowledge-enactment mechanism linking digital transformation to firm performance. For managers, the results underscore the need to strategically orchestrate digital transformation, servitization, and corporate entrepreneurship as interlinked stages of a knowledge-based process to translate digital investments into sustained performance improvements in manufacturing.","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148693240","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}
Shavneet Sharma, Ján Lacko, Rashmini Sharma, Jan Lešetický
{"title":"Ludic knowledge transfer: How immersive games enable cultural and sustainability learning","authors":"Shavneet Sharma, Ján Lacko, Rashmini Sharma, Jan Lešetický","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2026.101101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jik.2026.101101","url":null,"abstract":"Video games have become one of the most pervasive and cognitively demanding learning environments of the twenty-first century. However, how immersive gameplay translates into durable knowledge, attitudes, and real-world behavioral intentions remains under-theorized within knowledge management and sustainability learning research. This study introduces and empirically validates the Ludic Knowledge Transfer framework, which advances existing work by conceptualizing games as decentralized, emotionally immersive infrastructures for cultural and sustainability knowledge creation rather than as information-delivery tools. Grounded in absorptive capacity, narrative persuasion, and self-referencing theories, the study reframes game-based learning as a voluntary, identity-driven process through which players construct and internalize knowledge. Data were collected from 418 gamers and analyzed using Covariance-Based Structural Equation Modeling. Findings reveal that virtual cultural immersion significantly enhances knowledge absorption (cognitive), narrative transportation (affective), and self-relevance mapping (identity), which in turn strengthen cultural heritage attitude and sustainable behavioral intentions. Perceived authenticity emerges as a boundary condition rather than a linear amplifier: moderate realism supports identity-based learning, while excessive realism constrains self-identification, though emotional engagement remains largely unaffected. The study contributes theoretically by reframing play as a mechanism of knowledge integration and by refining authenticity theory through an optimality logic. Practically, it offers actionable insights for developers, educators, and policymakers on how to calibrate authenticity, embed moral narratives, and design identity-linked experiences that translate digital immersion into real-world sustainability outcomes.","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148693241","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}