Creativity and Innovation Management最新文献

{"title":"Fostering Digital Business Model Innovation: The Role of Government Venture Capital in High-Tech SMEs","authors":"Jiaxin Liu,&nbsp;Hang Yin,&nbsp;Bowen Liu","doi":"10.1111/caim.70046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/caim.70046","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The advancement of digital technology plays a critical role in shaping business model transformation among high-tech SMEs. Government venture capital (GVC) provides both financial and strategic resources for digital business model innovation (DBMI) and has attracted growing scholarly attention. Drawing on resource-based theory, this study develops a theoretical framework to examine how GVC influences DBMI in high-tech SMEs, with particular attention to the GVC certification hypothesis and resource mechanisms. We measure DBMI in Chinese listed high-tech SMEs using a text analysis approach. This involves constructing and expanding a DBMI lexicon with word vectors based on natural language processing, preprocessing annual report texts, and calculating DBMI levels based on keyword frequencies. Investment data on GVC participation are collected to form an unbalanced panel dataset, and a multiperiod difference-in-differences (DID) model is employed to estimate the direct, mediating, and heterogeneous effects of GVC on DBMI. In addition, a PSM-DID approach is applied to further test the robustness of the results. The empirical results indicate that GVC significantly enhances DBMI in high-tech SMEs. This effect is particularly pronounced in firms characterized by high ownership concentration, nonstate ownership, and CEO nonduality. Furthermore, GVC promotes DBMI by alleviating financing constraints and enhancing firms' intellectual capital. This study contributes to resource-based theory by elucidating the role of digital technology in business model innovation and highlighting the importance of GVC in fostering innovation and growth among high-tech SMEs. The findings offer important theoretical and practical implications for policymakers and business managers, helping high-tech SMEs leverage policy support to advance DBMI.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47923,"journal":{"name":"Creativity and Innovation Management","volume":"35 3","pages":"570-589"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148667535","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":"Entrepreneurial State as a Creative Destroyer: Comparison of Hong Kong and Singapore's Creative Industries","authors":"Bryan Cheang,&nbsp;Praharsh Mehrotra","doi":"10.1111/caim.70055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/caim.70055","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper explores the limits of mission-directed entrepreneurial states by drawing on the theory of recombinant innovation and F.A. Hayek's insights on the spontaneous growth of knowledge in society. First, the use of discretionary policymaking curtails the range of knowledge generated in the process of social interaction, limiting the scope for ideas to be fortuitously recombined. Second, by privileging a single overarching mission, the state may foster a social culture that encourages compliance with authority, limiting the epistemic curiosity in individuals necessary for creative innovation. We make this argument through a comparative historical analysis of Singapore and Hong Kong, which adopted divergent approaches to development. Despite rapid growth in both, the former's technocratic governance came at the expense of its creative sectors, while the latter's reliance on spontaneous solutions enabled strong creative industries to develop despite little state support. By using creative performance as a proxy for innovation-led development, we exemplify the limits of top-down governance. Rather than fostering creative destruction, the entrepreneurial state may end up being a creative destroyer.</p>","PeriodicalId":47923,"journal":{"name":"Creativity and Innovation Management","volume":"35 3","pages":"555-569"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/caim.70055","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148667507","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":"Institutional Antecedents of Creativity and Product Innovation in the Digital Cultural Industries","authors":"Irina Mihailova,&nbsp;Sílvio Luís de Vasconcellos","doi":"10.1111/caim.70064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/caim.70064","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigates the external sources of creativity that firms in the digital cultural sectors can utilize to develop innovative products to compete internationally. Drawing on organizational creativity and institutional theories, we aim to explore whether creativity can be nurtured outside firms' boundaries within the network of industry professionals and influenced by institutional factors. Adopting an inductive theory-building approach, we conduct a qualitative case study of Finnish digital firms in the digital cultural sectors to achieve the objective of the study. Our findings reveal that socio-cultural and regulatory forces such as startup funding, promotion of interaction within the industry ecosystem, and support for international expansion of Finnish firms nurture collective and collaborative creativity and country-of-origin perceptions among industry professionals by enabling their interaction, open knowledge sharing, and free flow of ideas. These processes enhance the creative capabilities of individuals in the industry, which drives them to develop innovative products within their own firms for international markets. This study advances the literature by demonstrating how socio-cultural and regulatory institutions that are external to organizations jointly contribute to local firms' creative capacity, supporting their national and international competitiveness.</p>","PeriodicalId":47923,"journal":{"name":"Creativity and Innovation Management","volume":"35 3","pages":"809-826"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/caim.70064","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148667498","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":"Innovation for Sufficiency: How Businesses Support a Disruptive Consumption Strategy","authors":"Indra da Silva Wagner,&nbsp;Bernd Ebersberger","doi":"10.1111/caim.70062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/caim.70062","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Ecological constraints and changing societal values require businesses to reconsider innovation opportunities. Sufficiency constitutes an emerging sustainability strategy for businesses that focuses on the absolute reduction of inputs and consumption levels to restrict resource use. This particularly challenges aspects of value generation, strategic orientation, and consumer focus in the context of innovation management. Although sufficiency strategies and business models have been explored, the link to innovation is missing. We review the literature on sufficiency and innovation to create an Innovation for Sufficiency framework that contributes twofold. First, we propose sufficiency-oriented innovation varieties that guide businesses in engaging in sufficiency practices along themes of circularity, product lifecycles, service provision, consumer engagement, and communication. Second, the framework indicates how these innovations direct consumers' consumption behavior toward sufficiency. We identify sufficiency as a driver for innovation, leading to innovative services and innovations that prioritize communication with, participation of, and education of consumers. Specifically, the Innovation for Sufficiency framework positions businesses in close interaction with the demand side by introducing varieties for innovations leading to disruptive consumption strategies for long-term changes toward sufficiency. Our study stimulates the creativity of practitioners to engage in sufficiency through innovation and encourages researchers to focus on understanding the sufficiency concept from the perspectives of specific innovation drivers, strategies, or capabilities.</p>","PeriodicalId":47923,"journal":{"name":"Creativity and Innovation Management","volume":"35 3","pages":"752-769"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/caim.70062","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148667505","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":"Toward Sustainable Organizations: Routines to Embed Sustainability in Corporate Culture","authors":"Diletta Di Marco,&nbsp;Raffaella Cagliano","doi":"10.1111/caim.70047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/caim.70047","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examines how organizations embed sustainability in corporate culture through recursive routinization—the dynamic interplay between formal structures and everyday practices that reinforce sustainability as a cultural norm. Drawing on qualitative research involving 26 large Italian organizations in various industries, the study identifies four interrelated clusters of sustainability practices: governance structures; metrics, standards, and certifications; daily work practices; and experimental partnerships. Governance structures enable strategic alignment, metrics, standards, and certifications translate sustainability goals into measurable benchmarks, daily practices ensure consistent enactment, and partnerships foster innovation and adaptability. Together, these clusters form an integrated system that embeds sustainability through both formal routines and informal, adaptive practices. Grounded in organizational routine theory and cultural embedding frameworks, the study shows how both ostensive (formal) and performative (enacted) aspects of routines drive sustainability integration. It frames this process as dynamic and iterative, shaped by internal reflexivity and external inputs. Theoretically, the research contributes to understanding sustainability integration as a multidimensional, evolving process. Practically, it highlights the need for interconnected, reflexive systems of routines that balance stability with adaptability, ensuring sustainability remains an enduring, responsive element of organizational culture.</p>","PeriodicalId":47923,"journal":{"name":"Creativity and Innovation Management","volume":"35 3","pages":"590-611"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/caim.70047","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148667516","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":"Toward Sustainable Organizations: Routines to Embed Sustainability in Corporate Culture","authors":"Diletta Di Marco,&nbsp;Raffaella Cagliano","doi":"10.1111/caim.70047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/caim.70047","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examines how organizations embed sustainability in corporate culture through recursive routinization—the dynamic interplay between formal structures and everyday practices that reinforce sustainability as a cultural norm. Drawing on qualitative research involving 26 large Italian organizations in various industries, the study identifies four interrelated clusters of sustainability practices: governance structures; metrics, standards, and certifications; daily work practices; and experimental partnerships. Governance structures enable strategic alignment, metrics, standards, and certifications translate sustainability goals into measurable benchmarks, daily practices ensure consistent enactment, and partnerships foster innovation and adaptability. Together, these clusters form an integrated system that embeds sustainability through both formal routines and informal, adaptive practices. Grounded in organizational routine theory and cultural embedding frameworks, the study shows how both ostensive (formal) and performative (enacted) aspects of routines drive sustainability integration. It frames this process as dynamic and iterative, shaped by internal reflexivity and external inputs. Theoretically, the research contributes to understanding sustainability integration as a multidimensional, evolving process. Practically, it highlights the need for interconnected, reflexive systems of routines that balance stability with adaptability, ensuring sustainability remains an enduring, responsive element of organizational culture.</p>","PeriodicalId":47923,"journal":{"name":"Creativity and Innovation Management","volume":"35 3","pages":"590-611"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/caim.70047","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148667518","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":"Applying Design Science in Creativity and Innovation Management Research: A Decision Guide for Deepening Research Practice","authors":"Anna Margolis,&nbsp;Simon L. Schmidt,&nbsp;Alexa Böckel,&nbsp;Fenna Blomsma","doi":"10.1111/caim.70049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/caim.70049","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Creativity and innovation management research (CIMR) seeks to understand how creative and innovative solutions emerge. Recently, greater practitioner engagement, interdisciplinary integration, process orientation and context-sensitive impact measurement have been proposed as realms of further development. To address these opportunities, we introduce <i>Design Science Research</i> (DSR) as a complementary methodology for CIMR. DSR connects theory and practice through the iterative development of practice-oriented artifacts that are grounded in theory, thus enabling scholars to co-create actionable tools jointly with practitioners. We have adapted DSR to the unique characteristics of CIMR—such as interdisciplinarity, process orientation and pluralist ontological and epistemological positions—by developing the <i>DeepDSR Guide</i>. The DeepDSR Guide supports CIMR scholars in making consistent and reflexive methodological choices throughout DSR projects. We have iteratively developed and validated the DeepDSR Guide with feedback from 21 scholars following a DSR approach. Our study contributes methodologically by adapting DSR to fit the pluralist, creative nature of CIMR and expands the application of DSR in management research.</p>","PeriodicalId":47923,"journal":{"name":"Creativity and Innovation Management","volume":"35 3","pages":"658-695"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/caim.70049","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148667378","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":"Disentangling the Relationship Between Mindfulness and Creativity: The Role of Conceptual and Experimental Creative Methods","authors":"Aldijana Bunjak,&nbsp;Andrew C. Hafenbrack,&nbsp;Matej Černe,&nbsp;Guido Bortoluzzi","doi":"10.1111/caim.70056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/caim.70056","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Prior research has indicated that mindfulness has the potential to enhance individuals' functioning in many ways. However, explorations of its relationship with creativity have elicited contrasting results that remain unresolved, and the underlying processes of this relationship remain unclear. In the present research, we examine whether and how conceptual and experimental creative problem-solving methods function as mechanisms linking mindfulness and creativity. We test our theoretical model in three studies: two survey-based studies (the first with online crowd-workers, the second with employees from Italian and Croatian small- and medium-sized enterprises) and an experiment conducted at a Slovenian university. The results indicate that conceptual creative methods mediate the positive relationship between mindfulness and creativity, such that higher mindfulness leads to greater use of conceptual methods, which in turn enhances creativity. Experimental creative methods do not mediate this relationship, indicating that mindfulness does not enhance creativity through increased use of experimental methods. We discuss the implications of these findings for theory and practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":47923,"journal":{"name":"Creativity and Innovation Management","volume":"35 3","pages":"696-715"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/caim.70056","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148667383","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":"Let's Talk! The Impact of a Scientist's Integrative Knowledge Network on Breakthrough Innovation","authors":"Siwei Zhu,&nbsp;Peter A. Koen,&nbsp;Heidi M. J. Bertels,&nbsp;John Skvoretz","doi":"10.1111/caim.70061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/caim.70061","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Breakthrough innovation relies on integrating knowledge through networks, yet extant research often examines inventor and knowledge element networks in isolation, obscuring the individual-level mechanisms of recombination. We bridge this gap by conceptualizing the integrative knowledge network as an individual's cognitive blueprint for breakthrough innovation. Using data from top biochemical scientists at a leading US oil and gas firm, we find that the depth of the network has no significant direct effect on breakthroughs. Conversely, our analysis reveals an inverted U-shaped relationship between the breadth of the network and breakthrough innovation, which is significantly moderated by weak ties. Our study demonstrates that breakthrough innovation arises from combinatorial potentials that emerge as individuals actively seek knowledge from colleagues through integrative knowledge networks.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47923,"journal":{"name":"Creativity and Innovation Management","volume":"35 3","pages":"827-851"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148667539","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":"Standardised Innovation Management Systems: Modelling the Antecedents of Certification and Maintenance Benefits","authors":"Carlos J. F. Cândido,&nbsp;Marisa Isabel Silva Cesário,&nbsp;Liana Mendes de Saboya","doi":"10.1111/caim.70059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/caim.70059","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The literature lacks a comprehensive model examining the performance impact of certifying and maintaining standardised innovation management systems (SIMS) or clarifying the advantages of standardisation. This study addresses that gap by analysing the key determinants of the benefits associated with SIMS certification and maintenance. Drawing on the literature and data collected from 103 Portuguese organisations holding certified SIMS, a partial least squares structural equation model (PLS-SEM) is developed that encompasses two critical stages of the certification life cycle: initial certification and maintenance. The results reveal that SIMS maintenance significantly influences maintenance benefits, underscoring its pivotal role in sustaining organisational performance. Certification motivations strongly affect certification benefits but do not directly enhance maintenance benefits, exerting only a moderate indirect impact mediated by maintenance motivations. Maintenance motivations, critical success factors (CSFs), and certification benefits emerge as the principal predictors of maintenance benefits. Although certification barriers do not directly influence performance, they exert a persistent indirect negative effect, highlighting the importance of effectively managing maintenance CSFs. In addition, two subsets of organisations display contrasting relationships between barriers and benefits (one negative and the other positive) reflecting differences in strategic alignment with SIMS and in the perceived importance of resource availability. This study is the first to examine the antecedents of SIMS maintenance benefits and to propose an empirical model explaining their determinants; it is also the first to integrate two main stages of the SIMS certification life cycle within a single framework. The findings contribute to the SIMS, ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 literature, where such frameworks are currently lacking, and offer valuable theoretical and practical insights for optimising the certification and maintenance of management systems so as to enhance organisational performance. Notably, the study demonstrates that the impact of barriers on performance is nuanced and reveals the importance of nurturing maintenance motivations, given that initial certification motivations lose their direct effect over time. Overall, the study clarifies not only that standardisation is beneficial but also how these benefits can be effectively realised and sustained.</p>","PeriodicalId":47923,"journal":{"name":"Creativity and Innovation Management","volume":"35 3","pages":"770-790"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/caim.70059","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148667514","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}