Tua A. Björklund, Shannon K. Gilmartin, Sheri D. Sheppard
{"title":"The dynamics of innovation efforts in the early career","authors":"Tua A. Björklund, Shannon K. Gilmartin, Sheri D. Sheppard","doi":"10.1111/caim.12534","DOIUrl":"10.1111/caim.12534","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Although innovation is highly valued in organizations, early-career professionals face a paradox of bringing in novel ideas, yet having varied latitude and support to see these new ideas through. Building on 35 critical-incident-based interviews with early-career engineers in the United States, this study illuminates the socially situated dynamics of their innovation efforts, examining the process of such promotive proactive behaviour. We find that all participants reported some engagement in creating, championing and implementing new ideas, typically in the form of self-initiated improvements to the tools and processes participants used in their jobs. Encouragement from direct supervisors, supportive organizational cultures and practices, job scope, time afforded and one's perceived status were key considerations in determining whether to take such initiative. Carrying out innovative work behaviours, in turn, was largely dependent on continued employee initiative and ad hoc, informal cooperation, with individual effort punctuated by influential interactions with others that often determined the perceived valence of efforts. The study adds to understanding the social interactions and perceptions of voice required for innovative work behaviour, revealing when and to whom these prerequisites are afforded. Implications for organizations' innovation capacity and new hires' participation in innovation are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":47923,"journal":{"name":"Creativity and Innovation Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/caim.12534","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43116490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A configurational approach to capabilities of business model innovation: Insights from a project-based firm","authors":"Kristian Løbner, René Chester Goduscheit","doi":"10.1111/caim.12531","DOIUrl":"10.1111/caim.12531","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The capabilities of business model innovation (BMI) are crucial for the modern firm to remain competitive. This study aims to answer recent calls for a more structured approach to understanding BMI and to researching how the capabilities relate to performance. Furthermore, and despite the rise of the project-based firm, there is still a profound lack of BMI research in the setting of project-based firms – a research stream, which we contribute to developing further. Theoretically, and on the basis of a literature review, we suggest a set of four overall capabilities for BMI with 29 corresponding themes within the areas of strategy, business models, management, and organizations. Empirically, we gained deep access to 15 projects in a major European engineering consultancy, which were marked by BMI. Analytically, we analyzed the results through a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) and derived three main findings. Firstly, a high degree of skunkworks with little relationship to the firm's strategic and operational logic leads to a fast time to market. Secondly, lack of managerial capabilities leads to increased investment and lower revenues. Finally, lack of managerial capabilities—even with the presence of strategic capabilities of BMI and organizational capabilities of BMI—leads to lower future potential of the business model. In continuation of these findings, we develop three propositions and recommend project-based firms to boost the managerial capabilities of leading BMI by focusing on training of BMI managers, organizational learning through experiments, establishing trust in project employees, ensuring openness in collaborations, minimizing transaction costs and developing appropriate key metrics for the BMI project.</p>","PeriodicalId":47923,"journal":{"name":"Creativity and Innovation Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/caim.12531","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44420936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Boosting the confidence of new product development teams: The role of team boundary spanning, team size and functional diversity","authors":"Pilar Carbonell, Ana I. Rodriguez Escudero","doi":"10.1111/caim.12532","DOIUrl":"10.1111/caim.12532","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In today's highly interconnected, uncertain and dynamic business environment, team boundary spanning has become an important determinant of the performance of new product development (NPD) projects. Despite the positive evidence supporting the use of boundary spanning activities by NPD teams, little is still known about how boundary spanning teams become high-performance teams. The current study advances research on this subject by examining the mediating effect of team potency on the relationship between team boundary spanning and new product performance, as well as the moderating effects of team size and functional diversity on the relationship between team boundary spanning and team potency. Data from a time-lagged survey study of 140 NPD projects found that team boundary spanning can promote team potency that, in turn, results in greater new product quality and new product creativity. The positive effect of team boundary spanning on team potency was found to be more pronounced for NPD teams of medium size and high levels of functional diversity.</p>","PeriodicalId":47923,"journal":{"name":"Creativity and Innovation Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43739335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Green exploration and exploitation: Capabilities, product advantage, and policy considerations","authors":"Jie Xue, K. Scott Swan","doi":"10.1111/caim.12530","DOIUrl":"10.1111/caim.12530","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While sustainability has been identified as a critical driver of innovation, our understanding of green innovation activities interrelationship with capability antecedents and consequences of both green exploration and green exploitation remains unclear. A preliminary framework is developed to guide hypotheses and provide insights into green innovation and its connections with new product advantage from a Resource-Advantage (R-A) perspective. A sample of 197 traditional Chinese manufacturing enterprises conducting green innovation is an input into a structural equation model. The results indicate that green exploitation has direct positive effects on both innovative eco-friendly products' customer satisfaction and differentiation, whereas green exploration only positively impacts product differentiation. Importantly, green exploitation fully mediates the connections between capability antecedents (i.e., technology capability and market capability) and new product advantage (i.e., customer satisfaction and differentiation). By contrast, green exploration only fully mediates capability antecedents on new product differentiation. Our findings shed new light on exploration and exploitation research that shapes green innovation activities. Further, it contributes greater clarity into how manufacturing enterprises translate their technology and market capabilities into new eco-friendly product advantage. Moreover, the results suggest implications for manufacturers to become both “green and competitive” as well as offer policy-makers insights into shaping programs to assist green innovation.</p>","PeriodicalId":47923,"journal":{"name":"Creativity and Innovation Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/caim.12530","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43881535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Crowdsourcing innovation challenges: How participants react when their ideas are rejected","authors":"Cyrielle Vellera, Elodie Jouny-Rivier, Aurélie Hemonnet-Goujot","doi":"10.1111/caim.12528","DOIUrl":"10.1111/caim.12528","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Although crowdsourcing challenges as tools for generating high levels of innovation have received much attention, little research has investigated the impact on participants when their submissions are rejected. This research is aimed at gaining a better understanding of the consequences of rejection for participants' relationships with the brand engaged in the crowdsourcing activity. To investigate these issues, two quantitative studies were carried out with participants whose challenge proposals had not been selected. The results highlight positive effects on participant–brand relationships, especially on brand attachment, proselytism, brand commitment and brand loyalty. A confirmatory, interview-based qualitative study then identifies managerial perspectives and marketing strategies for brands and crowdsourcing platforms following the announcement of challenge results. This paper contributes to both the co-creation and crowdsourcing literature by extending academic knowledge and provides opportunities for further research.</p>","PeriodicalId":47923,"journal":{"name":"Creativity and Innovation Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/caim.12528","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48685006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When the going gets tough … the role of creativity and innovation management during times of crisis?","authors":"René Chester Goduscheit, Jennie Björk, Harry Boer","doi":"10.1111/caim.12533","DOIUrl":"10.1111/caim.12533","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47923,"journal":{"name":"Creativity and Innovation Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43510193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stefano Magistretti, Silvia Sanasi, Claudio Dell'Era, Antonio Ghezzi
{"title":"Entrepreneurship as design: A design process for the emergence and development of entrepreneurial opportunities","authors":"Stefano Magistretti, Silvia Sanasi, Claudio Dell'Era, Antonio Ghezzi","doi":"10.1111/caim.12529","DOIUrl":"10.1111/caim.12529","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Although firms constantly seek opportunities to launch new products, services, or business models, little is known about the way opportunities emerge and develop. In particular, despite current ontological and epistemological knowledge of entrepreneurial opportunities, the process that drives their emergence and development remains understudied. To enrich our understanding, we conduct an exploratory multiple-case study of six design agencies that supported firms in developing their entrepreneurial endeavours by leveraging design sprint, a hybrid method combining design and entrepreneurship. A primary contribution of our study is the conceptualization of a process model illustrating how design (sprint) can support the emergence and development of entrepreneurial opportunities. The model advances four actions that enable translating insights into opportunities: defining, framing, experimenting, and learning. Our findings also offer interesting insights on the role of third-party agents in this process. Indeed, design agencies can act as facilitators in enacting entrepreneurship as design by supporting the emergence and development of entrepreneurial opportunities. Our research also contributes to the debate on the timing of entrepreneurial endeavours, offering an empirical portrayal of their chronology. In this sense, our model also contributes to managerial practice, providing a sequence of actions that can guide the emergence and development of entrepreneurial opportunities.</p>","PeriodicalId":47923,"journal":{"name":"Creativity and Innovation Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/caim.12529","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44466256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sergio Matos Dos-Santos, Antonio Carlos Pacagnella Junior, Pierre-Luc Fournier, Cristiano Morini, Luis Antonio Santa-Eulalia
{"title":"Critical success factors for the innovativeness of the electronic industry: An analysis in developed and developing countries","authors":"Sergio Matos Dos-Santos, Antonio Carlos Pacagnella Junior, Pierre-Luc Fournier, Cristiano Morini, Luis Antonio Santa-Eulalia","doi":"10.1111/caim.12522","DOIUrl":"10.1111/caim.12522","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of critical success factors (CSFs) on the innovativeness of the electronic industry. We propose a novel conceptual model. To validate the model, we used structural equation modelling. Data were collected in a survey with 261 responses from companies in Brazil, Canada and the USA. A multigroup analysis was carried out. The results for the whole sample show that all the CSF investigated have a positive and significant influence at 1% on innovativeness, with the greatest influence obtained by the construct innovative culture and strategy, followed by research and development infrastructure, management knowledge and the innovative environment. The originality lies (1) in a proposition of a novel theoretical model that investigates both the individual effect and joint action of the constructs related to CSF, in a broader set of CSF; (2) in a deeper analysis of the relationship between innovativeness with the innovation performance of organizations in the electronic industry; (3) in a different dimension of analysis comparison considering three different innovation systems; and (4) in a managerial contribution by encouraging the construction of an organizational culture that has as its values the constant search for innovation and for encouraging the creation of innovative solutions.</p>","PeriodicalId":47923,"journal":{"name":"Creativity and Innovation Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47433063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Real options or fallen angels: Examining the complexities of learning from terminated projects","authors":"Andrew M. Hess","doi":"10.1111/caim.12527","DOIUrl":"10.1111/caim.12527","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Do organizations learn from innovative failures? Extant research has been mixed. We posit that these disparate findings likely reflect an underlying (and under-researched) spectrum of failure severity, which is comprised not only by the magnitude of the failure in question but by the frequency with which it occurs. Using fine-grained, project-level data, consisting of 33,905 projects in 2496 pharmaceutical firms, we decompose 1251 terminated projects into two types based on their phase of development: early- and late-stage terminations. We use hazard rate modelling and an analysis of abnormal equity returns to assess the likelihood of future failure and the market's reaction to the project termination. Specifically, we are interested in understanding the role that magnitude and frequency of project terminations play in the likelihood and magnitude of future project terminations.</p>","PeriodicalId":47923,"journal":{"name":"Creativity and Innovation Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46492046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Organizational learning for implementing product platforms: A case study of an automotive manufacturer","authors":"Jingyao Mei, Gang Zheng, Ling Zhu","doi":"10.1111/caim.12526","DOIUrl":"10.1111/caim.12526","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Product platform development has become a norm in practice for manufacturing companies, enabling firms to develop and produce products more efficiently, shortening the time needed to develop new derivatives, and reducing unit procurement costs. However, the required organizational activities for product platform development with different architectural knowledge need further exploration. We conduct a case study of an automotive manufacturer in China to explore how firms engage in organizational learning processes when implementing product platforms with different architectural knowledge. This study illustrates four organizational learning approaches rooted in exploration and exploitation, yields four configurations between architectural knowledge and the required organizational learning approaches and reveals that each of these architecture knowledge-organizational learning configurations produces different organizational performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":47923,"journal":{"name":"Creativity and Innovation Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43467332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}