TOBIAS SCHUSTER, TIMO J. J. BRUNNER, MALTE H. G. SCHNEIDER, CLAUDIA LEHMANN, DOMINIK K. KANBACH
{"title":"LEADING IN THE DIGITAL AGE: CONCEPTUALISING DIGITAL LEADERSHIP AND ITS INFLUENCE ON SERVICE INNOVATION PERFORMANCE","authors":"TOBIAS SCHUSTER, TIMO J. J. BRUNNER, MALTE H. G. SCHNEIDER, CLAUDIA LEHMANN, DOMINIK K. KANBACH","doi":"10.1142/s1363919623500317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1363919623500317","url":null,"abstract":"Although firms rely on employees’ innovative work behaviour and effective leadership to achieve service innovation performance, these relations remain underexplored, especially regarding digital leadership. We conceptualise a digital leader’s capabilities and explore influences on innovative work behaviour and service innovation performance, using the dynamic capabilities view as a theoretical lens. Applying a multi-method exploratory research design, our qualitative results, based on 34 expert interviews, deliver a taxonomy of digital leadership capabilities along three dimensions. With 249 survey participants, we quantitatively tested dimensional influences individually (multidimensional view) and collectively (unidimensional view) using structural equation modelling. In line with our mediation results, both views are significantly positively related to innovative work behaviour; still, only the unidimensional view significantly influences service innovation performance. Our results underpin the comprehensive character of digital leadership capabilities contributing to innovation research with a new “antecedal” perspective. We also provide practical relevance by revealing innovation-effective leadership capabilities.","PeriodicalId":47711,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Innovation Management","volume":"29 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135775508","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}
TOR HELGE AAS, KARL JOACHIM BREUNIG, MAGNUS MIKAEL HELLSTRÖM, KATJA MARIA HYDLE
{"title":"ORGANISING DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES: THE CASE OF PRODUCT–SERVICE SYSTEMS","authors":"TOR HELGE AAS, KARL JOACHIM BREUNIG, MAGNUS MIKAEL HELLSTRÖM, KATJA MARIA HYDLE","doi":"10.1142/s1363919623500305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1363919623500305","url":null,"abstract":"This study addresses the development of new integrated product–service systems (PSSs). Most empirical research on the organisation of development processes has focussed on new product development, new service development, software development and new business model development in isolation; however, the development of new, complex PSSs that require the integration of these development efforts has received limited research attention. We address this literature gap through a qualitative, in-depth study of five firms operating in the business-to-business context. The findings demonstrate that all new PSS development processes did not implement and use one specific process model. Instead, the organisation of new PSS development processes was contingent upon the type of services to be offered and the target business model. This study proposes a contingency framework for development processes that provides considerable guidance to managers searching for ways to facilitate the processes of developing new PSSs.","PeriodicalId":47711,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Innovation Management","volume":"15 33","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135813493","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}
VALENTIN ERNST, CHRISTOPH H. WECHT, MAXIMILIAN BÖGER, FRANK KOPPENHAGEN
{"title":"BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION 2.0: A CONCEPTUAL APPROACH TO ADD RESPONSIBILITY","authors":"VALENTIN ERNST, CHRISTOPH H. WECHT, MAXIMILIAN BÖGER, FRANK KOPPENHAGEN","doi":"10.1142/s1363919623400042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1363919623400042","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a responsible business model innovation process is developed based on the existing process of the St. Gallen Business Model Navigator. For its development, a literature review was conducted to formulate requirements that a responsible business model innovation process should fulfil. In particular, the four guiding principles of responsible research and innovation were considered: anticipation, inclusion, reflection, and responsiveness. Based on these findings, several aspects were added to the Business Model Navigator. The focus was on extending the description of a business model along the magic triangle with two additional levels, the environmental one and the social one. Additionally a new step was added in the initiation phase to make the purpose of the process more visible. The results contribute to the current understanding of a responsible business model innovation process, where ethical, social, and environmental aspects are included as core parts of the business model itself.","PeriodicalId":47711,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Innovation Management","volume":"25 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135813885","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}
ADRIAN BRAUMANDL, ALEX PONNRAJ, JULIAN BRÜCKEL, KATHARINA BAUSE, ALBERT ALBERS
{"title":"UTILISING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO INVESTIGATE THE RELEVANCE OF CUSTOMER BENEFITS","authors":"ADRIAN BRAUMANDL, ALEX PONNRAJ, JULIAN BRÜCKEL, KATHARINA BAUSE, ALBERT ALBERS","doi":"10.1142/s1363919623400066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1363919623400066","url":null,"abstract":"To support market success, it is important to identify customer needs, and the relation between customer needs and customer purchasing behaviour. This paper provides an overview over existing, already established approaches to determine the relevance of customer benefits. Then, an approach utilising artificial neural networks to correlate the attributes of battery electric vehicles and their sales performance is presented. This approach is discussed in relation to needs expressed by customers in surveys as well as typical user behaviour of passenger cars. It seems that, for example, charging speed of electric vehicles is more important than operational range despite customers regularly expressing operational range as their greatest concern. The presented approach can be integrated into the reference process for developing product profiles and can be coupled with drive system optimisation methods, to consider sales performance alongside vehicle performance, efficiency and costs in the early stage of product generation engineering.","PeriodicalId":47711,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Innovation Management","volume":"62 39","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135863288","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}
JUSTIN DORAN, GERALDINE RYAN, NÓIRÍN McCARTHY, MARI O’CONNOR
{"title":"GREEN INNOVATION LAUNCH VERSUS EXPANSION: DO THE PUBLIC POLICY SUPPORTS NEEDED VARY BY FIRM SIZE?","authors":"JUSTIN DORAN, GERALDINE RYAN, NÓIRÍN McCARTHY, MARI O’CONNOR","doi":"10.1142/s1363919623500299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1363919623500299","url":null,"abstract":"Green innovation is garnering increasing attention in business, academic and policy circles as a route to sustainable growth and development. Governments have introduced a range of policies to encourage and enable firms to introduce and expand their offerings of environmental friendly goods and services. While environmental regulation has been shown to be an important driver of green innovation, little is known about whether other types of polices, such as financial incentives, technical and marketing supports, and assistance with identifying potential markets, are important to firms of all sizes at different stages of the green innovation process (i.e., at product/service launch vs. product/service expansion). Using data from the European Commission, the results show that policy support to identify markets or customers is deemed important by firms of all sizes to introduce green goods and services. However, this support is no longer perceived as important to expand firms’ green portfolio. This suggests firms capitalise by using their existing markets or customers. The results do not lend support to the view of small firms as the most resource constrained and hence needing the greatest policy supports. Overall, the results point to the need for a variety of policy supports targeted at (1) firms of different sizes and (2) by stage of the green innovation process.","PeriodicalId":47711,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Innovation Management","volume":"5 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136069451","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":"EARLY VALIDATION OF HIGH-TECH STARTUPS BY USING (BIG) DATA","authors":"SAAD AHMED, MARIANNE KJØRSTAD, GERRIT MULLER, OTTAR SUNDHEIM","doi":"10.1142/s1363919623400108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1363919623400108","url":null,"abstract":"This study focuses on high-tech startups in the Norwegian context and investigates the use of data and/or big data to support validation at the early stage of development. Early-stage startups often fail due to lack of validation and incur loss to all the stakeholders involved in the process. Early validation through a lean or agile approach can help these young companies to manoeuvre through a turbulent external environment. The results from the study show that big data and/or data can act as a support at this stage but is not necessarily the sole solution to the problem. There are various barriers that need to be addressed for successful data-based validation. Based on multi-case study research method, this study proposes an early validation user guide (EVU) to overcome these barriers and make data adoption easier. The EVU can provide startups support to show how and when to use data and/or big data depending on the market context. The study thus contributes to the current body of knowledge of innovation and entrepreneurship concerning validation for early stage startups and can also guide practitioners in validating their startup ideas.","PeriodicalId":47711,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Innovation Management","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136069739","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}
CHRISTOPH KEMPF, MICHAEL SCHLEGEL, SIMON RAPP, KAMRAN BEHDINAN, ALBERT ALBERS
{"title":"REASONS AND TRIGGERS USING RESEARCH RESULTS IN CORPORATE PRODUCT ENGINEERING","authors":"CHRISTOPH KEMPF, MICHAEL SCHLEGEL, SIMON RAPP, KAMRAN BEHDINAN, ALBERT ALBERS","doi":"10.1142/s1363919623400054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1363919623400054","url":null,"abstract":"In product engineering, the development of new innovations is a big challenge due to the high complexity of nowadays systems. Research results are a high-potential input for companies to still advance their technologies and solutions. However, using research as a source of new knowledge and technologies is a non-trivial process that can often be neglected by many companies. The goal of this investigation is to gain and provide an understanding of the specific triggers and reasons for corporate product engineers to use research results as input in their development process. Based on nine semi-structured interviews with experts from different engineering companies, we present a model that explains these reasons, triggers, and situations to use research results. We believe that our model will help to raise the awareness of corporate product engineers to the potential of using research results within their design activities. Furthermore, the outcome of this investigation provides a basis for further research to improve the usability and actual usage of research results in corporate product engineering. Therefore, in our further research, we will use these results for developing decision support for corporate engineers to decide when to look into research.","PeriodicalId":47711,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Innovation Management","volume":"19 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136317654","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":"INFLUENCING FACTORS ON CREATIVITY IN DISTRIBUTED TEAMS — SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW","authors":"ANNIKA BASTIAN, MELINA WASSERBÄCH, ALBERT ALBERS","doi":"10.1142/s1363919623400091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1363919623400091","url":null,"abstract":"Creativity has been identified as a critical activity in distributed product development. Various methods and tools support distributed product development and distributed teams in general, but none with a focus on creative problem solving. To tackle this challenge, a systematic literature review has been conducted to gather the influencing factors on distributed creativity to be used as a starting point for supporting creativity in distributed product development teams. Within this submission, an impact model is developed, focusing on the success factors of creativity. Furthermore, the interconnection between the factors is modelled. Barriers to creative problem solving are included as well but will be the focus of a following publication.","PeriodicalId":47711,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Innovation Management","volume":"51 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136376794","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}
ALEXANDRA DION-POULIN, SOPHIE VEILLEUX, VÉRONIQUE PERREAULT, SYLVIE L. TURGEON
{"title":"MANAGING THE CO-CREATION PROCESS: WHEN THE CAKE DOES NOT RISE","authors":"ALEXANDRA DION-POULIN, SOPHIE VEILLEUX, VÉRONIQUE PERREAULT, SYLVIE L. TURGEON","doi":"10.1142/s136391962340008x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s136391962340008x","url":null,"abstract":"Co-creation is recognised in the literature as fostering successful collaboration between academia and industry. Although models do exist, they only contain general principals and provide no details about the process from ideation to value creation. Moreover, they are established based on a consideration that industry submits a problem and the university provides solutions. However, with increasing pressure on researchers for their research to lead to tangible applications, universities must now also turn to firms to pinpoint their needs and practices. The purpose of this paper is to understand how a researcher can implement and manage a co-creation project in collaboration with firms to foster innovation. A university research team in food science and technology, in response to the issue of allergen management in the food service industry, more specifically the use of eggs in pastries, has led a co-creation project with six professional pastry chefs to improve cake formulations, in which eggs were replaced with legume puree. Based on the results and the literature, a model to manage the co-creation process between academia and industry that incorporates a collaboration platform is proposed. This paper also identifies the concrete practices that foster creativity and interaction among participants and that lead to innovation.","PeriodicalId":47711,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Innovation Management","volume":"134 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134906815","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":"INNOVATION CHAMPIONS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS: SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW AND INTEGRATIVE MODEL","authors":"AFAF KAMAL MAHADI HASSAN","doi":"10.1142/s1363919623300027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1363919623300027","url":null,"abstract":"Innovation champions often play an important role in enabling sustainable development (SD). The rise of innovative ideas and technologies in the field of SD has led to major changes in the nature of adopted innovation. In turn, this calls for investigating the available knowledge on innovation champions’ various roles and their influence on SD projects. This paper provides a systematic literature review on innovation champions’ roles from a project-based perspective. Considering a search of 118 papers from high-quality journals, 69 peer-reviewed papers were identified as relevant and synthesised earlier knowledge on innovation champions and SD. The literature review revealed that innovation champions could have direct influence on the adoption and implementation of SD projects, which entail countless innovative products, processes, and technologies. Consequently, the findings of the research were used to develop an integrative model that associates the various roles of innovation champions to the successful implementation of SD projects.","PeriodicalId":47711,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Innovation Management","volume":"74 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135566611","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}