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{"title":"Factors affecting the adoption of quality standards in the semiconductor industry: The importance of stakeholder pressures","authors":"Maarten F.M. Jurg,&nbsp;Linda M. Kamp,&nbsp;Geerten van de Kaa","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100690","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100690","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Standards play a significant role in the semiconductor industry. However, few scholars have focused on gaining a better understanding of standardization in this industry. This study examines a specific aspect of standardization: the adoption of quality standards by companies in The Netherlands’ semiconductor industry. Multiple quality standards are available and the uncertainty surrounding that choice is high. There is a need to decrease this uncertainty. This paper attempts to accomplish that by focusing on a Dutch multinational semiconductor company that has adopted quality standards that improve sustainability. This is a typical example of a company affected by uncertainty regarding the quality standards that should be adopted. Based on a literature review and interviews with experts from the company, we develop a list of factors that influence the company's adoption of two quality standards and assign weights to these factors by applying the best-worst method. Our results show that pressure from customers, pressure from big players, management support, and formalization are the most important factors explaining quality standard adoption in The Netherlands’ semiconductor industry. Applying these factors and weights can reduce the uncertainty for companies regarding which standards should be adopted, which is the practical implication of our study.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"10 3","pages":"Article 100690"},"PeriodicalIF":15.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143601208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Research on the nonlinear effects of technological progress on output of manufacturing firms","authors":"Ning Wang ,&nbsp;Yuanyuan Hong ,&nbsp;Ziyu Guo","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100692","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100692","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study constructs a theoretical framework for technological progress (TP) on firm output (FOP) and examines the nonlinear influence between them. First, the empirical findings indicate that TP has a “positive U-shaped” correlation with FOP. This impact is particularly pronounced among firms characterized by high technological intensity, older age, location in eastern regions, and presence in high-innovation-policy environments. Second, the TP of enterprises further affects the output of enterprises by affecting their operating expenses, labor costs, and production capacity. Most importantly, this study shows that quality competitiveness plays a significant role in moderating the interaction between TP and FOP. Specifically, in the early stages of TP, the addition of industry quality competitiveness amplifies the inhibitory effect of TP on FOP. However, when TP further develops, quality competitiveness enhances the promotional effect of TP on FOP. In the initial phase of technological advancements, quality competitiveness mitigates the negative influence that TP may exert on FOP. This study contributes to the existing body of knowledge, offering Chinese insights to complement existing research and holding both scholarly and practical relevance for the progression of other emerging economies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"10 3","pages":"Article 100692"},"PeriodicalIF":15.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143592860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How does education affect knowledge and intergenerational social class mobility in China?","authors":"Bingqiang Li ,&nbsp;Wenjie Nie ,&nbsp;Xuan Zuo ,&nbsp;Heping Zuo","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100678","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100678","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Education is an important tool used to equip knowledge and pursue self-improvement, which may affect intergenerational social class mobility through human capital accumulation. Using 8014 mixed cross-section samples from the 2017, 2018 and 2021 China General Social Survey (CGSS), an multi-nominal logistic regression model was adopted to empirically analyse the impact of educational levels on intergenerational social class mobility in China. The econometric results indicated that (1) higher education considerably promotes subjective and objective upwards intergenerational social class mobilities, with the objective effect exceeding the subjective effect by 3.4 %; (2) the implementation of the compulsory education law and the expansion of higher education enrolment has increased the potential for high educational level to drive upwards intergenerational social class mobility; (3) among the different types of education, population migration exerts a repelling effect on objective upwards intergenerational social class mobility, whereas family background exerts a negative effect on subjective intergenerational social class mobility; and (4) the effects of education on intergenerational social class mobility are heterogeneous, with women, non-agricultural hukou holders and groups in developed areas facing greater difficulties in achieving social mobility through education. The main contribution of this study is its initial detection of the varying impacts of educational level on intergenerational social class mobility, as investigated through subjective and objective perspectives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"10 3","pages":"Article 100678"},"PeriodicalIF":15.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143579966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The performance effects of innovative service transition strategies","authors":"Christoph Buck ,&nbsp;Nils-Ole Floegel ,&nbsp;Maximilian B. Stöter ,&nbsp;Kevin C. Desouza ,&nbsp;Timothy Robb","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100687","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100687","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In recent years, the management research has increasingly discussed service transition. However, studies have not used sufficiently granular empirical data for valid quantitative evaluation of service-intensive strategies by, for example, examining the possible effects of resource slack on firm performance. To test the hypothesis that resource slack moderates the performance effects of a servitization-based strategy, a regression model was applied to data spanning several industrial and geographic sectors. Tobin's q and return on assets were applied as uniform measures of financial performance. The study shows some potential positive and negative effects of the servitization of manufacturing firms on their financial performance. However, resource slack on its own is not shown to moderate these effects. The conclusion is that servitization is not a panacea for manufacturing firms, nor is the combination of servitization with resource slack. The contribution of this article lies in providing further evidence of the positive performance effects of servitization, while showing that servitization can have negative effects on firm performance in certain circumstances.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"10 2","pages":"Article 100687"},"PeriodicalIF":15.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143548026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring the unknowns of international open innovation and international dynamic capabilities on the speed of innovation and firm international performance: A strategic view","authors":"Noor Ul Hadi ,&nbsp;Imtiaz Ali","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100683","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100683","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Technological advancements are forcing firms to innovate quickly to sustain a competitive advantage. However, despite theoretical arguments and empirical findings, the mechanisms that influence the speed of innovation and firms’ international performance are surprisingly unexplored in the international business literature. Therefore, this study offers theoretical rigor through the resource-based view and dynamic capabilities framework to improve our understanding of how firms can achieve international performance. This study develops a conceptual model to investigate the joint effects of international open innovation, international dynamic capabilities, and the speed of innovation on firms’ international performance. This study empirically examines a conceptual model using 303 valid responses from marble manufacturers in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Pakistan. The results confirm that international open innovation has a positive and significant effect on the international performance of marble manufacturers. The findings also suggest that international open innovation and international dynamic capabilities together influence the speed of innovation and the international performance of marble manufacturers. This study concludes that strong dynamic international capabilities can turn open international innovation into a source of international performance for manufacturers through the speed of innovation. Several theoretical and policy implications are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"10 2","pages":"Article 100683"},"PeriodicalIF":15.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143526874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Analyzing the impact of digital technology on consumers’ travel intentions","authors":"Yanan Tan ,&nbsp;Guoliang Jiang ,&nbsp;Shaheem Sayed Merajuddin ,&nbsp;Fang Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100685","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100685","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>With the objective of providing insights and strategic recommendations to enhance the competitiveness of tourism destinations, this study endeavors to examine the nuanced impact of digital technology utilization on the travel intentions of consumers. A comprehensive theoretical framework is developed, incorporating five key mechanisms to elucidate how digital device usage influences consumers’ propensity to travel. Empirical findings indicate that the expansion of information channels and the broadening of social networks constitute the most significant mechanisms through which smartphone usage affects travel intentions. These effects are followed by the enhancement of mutual trust and life convenience, while the augmentation of income levels exerts the weakest influence. Furthermore, this study extends its analysis to the heterogeneous effects of smartphone and digital device adoption across different consumer demographics. The data suggest that the influence of digital technology on travel intentions is particularly pronounced among the middle-aged and elderly, males, extroverts, those with a more pessimistic worldview, and lower-income groups. Drawing upon these findings, this study proposes targeted policy and managerial implications aimed at optimizing the impact of digital technology on travel intentions. These recommendations emphasize innovations in tourism marketing communication channels, the enhancement of tourism service offerings, and the advancement of digital infrastructure, with a focus on aligning digital adoption strategies with the distinctive characteristics of diverse consumer segments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"10 2","pages":"Article 100685"},"PeriodicalIF":15.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143526873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"New external driving force of enterprises’ commercial innovation: Revealing the role of internet platforms","authors":"Fang Zhao ,&nbsp;Guoliang Jiang ,&nbsp;Yi Xu ,&nbsp;Wanying Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100686","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100686","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As digital platforms continue to evolve, they facilitate the exchange of information and create opportunities for innovation-driven growth and introduce new challenges for enterprises navigating research and development-driven transformation. In the study, we used the Probit model, IV-Probit model, propensity score matching (PSM) model, KHB model to conduct research and discussion based on 2015 China Private Enterprise Survey (CEPS), and conducted a systematic investigation of the mechanisms that Internet platforms affect enterprises. Focusing on the mechanisms through which widespread digital platform adoption influences corporate commercial innovation, we first identify the pathways through which internet platforms enhance enterprises’ commercialization and innovation capabilities. Specifically, internet platforms improve the external market environment by increasing the frequency and quality of information exchange between enterprises and consumers. In addition, these platforms strengthen enterprises’ motivation and confidence, which encourages increased investment in innovation. Moreover, integrating “visible hand” (government intervention) and “invisible hand” (market forces) factors, we demonstrate that the positive effects of internet platforms on commercialization and innovation are more pronounced when government support for enterprises is intensified. Conversely, a more developed and competitive market environment magnifies firms’ propensity to accelerate innovation using digital platforms. Expanding the scope of our analysis, we introduce industry, enterprise size, type of internet platform, and geographical location dimensions to enable a more nuanced understanding of how company-specific characteristics influence the impact of digital platforms on commercial innovation. These expanded analyses significantly enhance the practical relevance and operational applicability of our findings, providing deeper insights into how firm attributes mediate the influence of digital platforms on innovation outcomes. Finally, we propose a set of strategies and frameworks for using digital platforms to facilitate the rapid recovery of enterprise operations and bolster innovation capabilities in the post-COVID-19 era.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"10 2","pages":"Article 100686"},"PeriodicalIF":15.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143529439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lean digital education to resolve the paradox of the illusion of digital prosperity","authors":"Mária Csernoch","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100676","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100676","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Digital education, including digitally supported education, is loaded with biases. Most participants are blinded by the abundance of digital devices and misled by the hardware and software providers who try to convince and force education systems to keep track of untraceable developments. However, recent studies have revealed that the productivity of the participants and the sustainability of their digital artifacts generate a huge but silent waste, both in terms of human and machine resources. This contradiction generates a paradox in which the illusion of digital prosperity does not allow us to clearly see the ineffectiveness of digital processes and artifacts and the losses piling up. Our research revealed that the methodology of Lean Thinking allows us to find the root causes of the problems and the revolutionary changes which must be applied to eliminate the waste generated by the participants in the digital era. It was also found that the adaptation of the lean philosophy, proven effective in production, services, and administration, can be a solution in resolving the paradox of digital education, which leads us to Lean Digital Education (LDE). Within this framework – instead of the widely accepted tool-centered ideas – we offer a human-centered, long-term thinking philosophy focusing on respect for participants, on their development, tasks, and problems, while at the same time eliminating and reducing waste. The present paper details the strength of this innovative approach which is based on (1) a solid theoretical background (2) a reliable measuring system for calculating the waste of digital activities and artifacts, (3) approaches proven to be effective and efficient in end-user data management, and (4) examples of the learning-teaching materials which support the philosophy adapted.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"10 2","pages":"Article 100676"},"PeriodicalIF":15.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143562877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Driving green technology innovation: The impact of environmental policies on manufacturing","authors":"Wensheng Wang,&nbsp;Xi Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100684","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100684","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Environmental regulations have been extensively studied in the context of advocating green development. As one of the most stringent laws in history, the new Environmental Protection Law (EPL) of 2015 has greatly affected the production and development of enterprises. In this context, and in the face of the incentive problem of green technology innovation, what impact does this legislation have on the quantity and quality of green technology innovation activities of manufacturing enterprises? This study takes the new EPL as a representative policy of environmental regulation, and the A-share listed companies from 2010 to 2022 as a sample, and uses the differences-in-differences model to explore the impact of environmental regulation policies on green technology innovation. The results show that although the implementation of the new environmental protection law has enabled an expansion of the quantity of green technology innovation, it has also led to a decline in the quality of related innovation activities. It also finds differences based on the nature of enterprise property rights, with the quantity and quality of green technology innovation of state-owned enterprises being significantly higher than that of non-state-owned enterprises. Differences based on enterprise scale are also noted; compared with small-scale enterprises, the number of green technology innovations of large-scale enterprises is higher under the new environmental protection law, while the quality is not significantly different. The conclusions of this study provide theoretical support and counter-measures for deepening the reform of environmental regulation-related systems and formulating differentiated policy support measures for enterprises with different ownership types and scales.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"10 2","pages":"Article 100684"},"PeriodicalIF":15.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143526872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unveiling the hidden dynamics: A configurational analysis of personality traits, demographic factors, and knowledge hiding","authors":"Andreas Kallmuenzer ,&nbsp;Rashid Khurshid ,&nbsp;Hafiz Muhammad Usman Khizar ,&nbsp;Jingbo Yuan","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100666","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100666","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Knowledge Hiding is a pervasive problem in the workplace, which can have various negative consequences for individuals and organizations. Drawing from the underpinning of complexity theory, this study investigates the complex causal interrelationships associated with knowledge hiding in the workplace. That is, we explore the interrelationships of individual-level factors: i) demographic characteristics (age, gender, education and experience), and ii) personality traits (i.e., Big-5 and the Dark Triad), and knowledge hiding behaviours. We collected data from 157 employees in the hospitality sector and analyzed by using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). Our results highlighted multiple configurations of the demographic characteristics and personality traits (i.e., causal conditions) leading to knowledge hiding behaviours (i.e., outcome). Our findings revealed a total of 25 unique profiles combining personality traits and demographics factors–14 associated with the presence of knowledge hiding, and 11 linked to its absence. In particular, Machiavellianism emerged as a core condition driving the presence of knowledge hiding, while extraversion was identified as a core condition associated with its absence. This is the first-ever study comprehensively investigating distinct profiles resulting from the interplay between employees' personality traits and demographic factors associated with their knowledge hiding behaviour.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"10 2","pages":"Article 100666"},"PeriodicalIF":15.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143562876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}