TechnovationPub Date : 2024-10-04DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103117
Michael A. Zaggl , Matthias Müller
{"title":"Creativity reputation allocation in open and distributed innovation","authors":"Michael A. Zaggl , Matthias Müller","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103117","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103117","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Much of today's creative work crosses organizational borders. This limits the possibilities for directly compensating creative workers. Thus, other forms of reward, such as reputation-building, are necessary. This study builds on the concept of creative reputation (reputation for creativity) and signaling theory. It asks how reputation should be assigned to creative workers to reflect their creative abilities most accurately. We illustrate reputation allocation using the example of the academic system and develop a simple computational model to compare how different reputation allocation mechanisms—varying in how they utilize observable information about creative workers' outcomes—produce reputations for individual creative workers. The insights derived from the model contribute to our understanding of open and distributed innovation systems. They also challenge current practices in evaluating and recruiting creative workers and motivate future research on creative reputation and reputation allocation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":"138 ","pages":"Article 103117"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142417562","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}
TechnovationPub Date : 2024-09-26DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103111
Marie Roussie , Sonia Adam-Ledunois , Sébastien Damart
{"title":"What are foresight-designed science fictions made of?","authors":"Marie Roussie , Sonia Adam-Ledunois , Sébastien Damart","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103111","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103111","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article studies the characteristics of science fiction (SciFi) narratives imagined by authors and produced specifically to serve the prospective approaches of sponsoring organizations. It is based on a study of 38 SciFi narratives designed for actors within the defense sector. For each narrative, the analysis results in the coding of the presence (or absence) of seven attributes considered characteristic of SciFi (or \"what makes science fiction science fiction\"), based on the work of Istvan Csicsery-Ronay. The results demonstrate the wide diversity of writing strategies employed by authors. Few combinations of the seven attributes recur; nevertheless, without being dominant, some stand out. This study opens discussions on how SciFi conceives of and apprehends the future and novelty. However, this exploration does not seek to precisely qualify these SciFi attributes or the way in which the narratives produced draw on them, nor does it measure the intensity of their use. Additionally, it is limited to the study of a specific sector, that of defense. A certain amount of vigilance is therefore called for in the use of the findings. They do, however, make it possible to propose a practical list of SciFi attributes (and their combinations) deemed useful for prospective purposes—a necessary step to begin opening this black box of how SciFi can be designed for foresight activities and consequently for innovation management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":"138 ","pages":"Article 103111"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142322331","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}
TechnovationPub Date : 2024-09-24DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103103
Yaqun Yi , Xiaoming He , Hermann Achidi Ndofor , Fangyan Niu
{"title":"Shared business understanding and innovation: The role of firm dominant logic in business model innovation","authors":"Yaqun Yi , Xiaoming He , Hermann Achidi Ndofor , Fangyan Niu","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103103","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103103","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Business model innovation (BMI) is a key source of innovation that may create a competitive advantage for firms. Drawing insights from the activity system perspective of BMI and dynamic managerial capabilities literature, we argue that a firm's dominant logic promotes BMI, which in turn influences firm performance. We further investigate the boundary condition of managerial connections as providers of privileged resources and information. We examine the proposed hypotheses on a sample of 189 Chinese firms. Our findings suggest that firm dominant logic facilitates both novelty- and efficiency-centered BMI. Further, the two types of BMI affect firm performance differently. Specifically, efficiency-centered BMI improves performance, but novelty-centered BMI does not. In addition, managerial connections strengthen the effect of firm dominant logic on novelty-centered BMI but do not significantly influence the effect of efficiency-centered BMI, reflecting differences between novelty-centered and efficiency-centered BMI. This study is thus noteworthy in its contribution to both the BMI and dynamic capabilities literature.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":"138 ","pages":"Article 103103"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142315030","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}
TechnovationPub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103095
Ruihan Zhang , Xiaodong Li , Xin Yan , Yiwen Bian
{"title":"Does customer concentration matter in business model value: Threshold effects of carbon emissions and dynamic capabilities?","authors":"Ruihan Zhang , Xiaodong Li , Xin Yan , Yiwen Bian","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103095","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103095","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Prior studies have examined the relationship between customer concentration and business model value (hereinafter BMV). This research further examines their relationship by introducing the roles of external carbon emissions and internal dynamic capabilities, and identifies the potential threshold effects induced by the roles. Drawing on a sample of Chinese-listed manufacturing firms from 2012 to 2017, we use a set of regression models, threshold models and robustness checks. The results show that customer concentration is positively related to BMV and carbon emissions modulate a triple-threshold effect on this positive relationship, while dynamic capabilities exhibit threshold effects at both the aggregate and individual levels. This paper provides valuable insights into how firms promote their BMV and achieve carbon neutrality by recognizing the effect of customer concentration on BMV, as well as how firms can leverage their dynamic capabilities to support BMV enhancement and achieve sustainability improvements.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":"137 ","pages":"Article 103095"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142122844","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}
TechnovationPub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103079
Paul Chiambaretto , Sara Laurent , Ulrike Schmalz , Mengying Fu , Audrey Rouyre , Camille Bildstein , Anne-Sophie Fernandez
{"title":"Are consumers willing to pay more for green innovations? Insights from the air transport industry","authors":"Paul Chiambaretto , Sara Laurent , Ulrike Schmalz , Mengying Fu , Audrey Rouyre , Camille Bildstein , Anne-Sophie Fernandez","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103079","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103079","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This research investigates whether consumers are willing to pay more for green innovations. As green innovations are often more complex and costly to develop or operate than are conventional innovations, it is important to assess whether consumers truly value the environmental benefits associated with green innovations. Focusing on the specific case of the air transport industry, we investigate whether air passengers are willing to pay more for greener flights (i.e., using new technologies that have lower greenhouse gas emissions). To do so, we conduct a choice-based conjoint (CBC) analysis in which respondents are confronted with several product profiles for a plane ticket. The sample comprises 17,325 choices made by 1155 respondents from North America, Europe, Asia and Oceania. The results reveal passengers’ willingness-to-pay (WTP) (in euros) to switch from traditional jet fuel to different technological options that emit fewer greenhouse gas emissions than does kerosene. The results also investigate whether passengers are willing to accept longer flight times, which is an alternative operational method for reducing CO2 emissions. Additional analyses reveal that attitudes toward air transport (flight shame and trust in the aviation industry) and general pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors increase the WTP of passengers for greener innovations, while sociodemographics (age, gender and education) have no significant impact on WTP. This research extends the literature on green innovation by underlining the importance of its social acceptance and by highlighting under which circumstances consumers are willing to pay more for green innovations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":"137 ","pages":"Article 103079"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142097438","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}
TechnovationPub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103099
Tiantian Cao , Weian Li , Yaowei Zhang , Minna Zheng
{"title":"Win–win or Lose–Lose? Dual logic, board factional faultlines, and ambidextrous innovation in state-owned enterprises","authors":"Tiantian Cao , Weian Li , Yaowei Zhang , Minna Zheng","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103099","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103099","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Previous research has largely ignored the role of internal dynamics in filtering conflicting institutional demands facing state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and in generating innovation heterogeneity. This study examines the internal dynamics within SOE boards by focusing on how directors representing different institutional logics experience and manage conflicting institutional expectations in a shared decision-making process of ambidextrous innovation. Particularly, using Chinese SOEs as samples, we determine that when faultlines between factional subgroups of directors committed to state and market logic are activated, the balance of ambidextrous innovation will increase; however, the activated faultlines simultaneously lead to declines in exploratory and exploitative innovation. Furthermore, this negative effect on ambidextrous innovation is stronger for high-tech firms but weaker for firms with substantive board independence. We extend the research on SOE innovation, organizational hybridity, and the effects of group faultlines. Additionally, the findings yield practical insights into addressing the challenges of SOE hybridity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":"137 ","pages":"Article 103099"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142232219","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}
TechnovationPub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103097
Sanjit K. Roy , Gaganpreet Singh , Linda D. Hollebeek , Saadia Shabnam , Arnold Japutra , Sebastian van Doorn , Subhasis Ray , Francesco Paolo Appio
{"title":"Smart service value: Conceptualization, scale development, and validation in the retailing context","authors":"Sanjit K. Roy , Gaganpreet Singh , Linda D. Hollebeek , Saadia Shabnam , Arnold Japutra , Sebastian van Doorn , Subhasis Ray , Francesco Paolo Appio","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103097","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103097","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In-store smart technology is rapidly transforming service delivery and value creation in the retail sector. However, despite these advances, academic acumen of customers' perceived value of their smart service interactions remains tenuous, exposing an important omission in extant literature. Addressing this gap, we conceptualize, operationalize, and validate <em>smart service value</em> (SSV) in the retailing context. We first define SSV as the costs and benefits as perceived by customers of using in-store smart service applications. We then operationalize SSV and validate a third-order, reflective-formative construct by means of a scale development survey through Amazon MTurk (study 1; n = 326). To further validate the proposed SSV scale, we subsequently tested our conceptual model using a survey querying a hypothetical retail setting through an Australian panel provider (study 2; n = 298), which was analyzed by using PLS path modeling. Specifically, we explore SSV's effect on customer engagement and trust, which are in turn envisaged to impact customers' quality of life. The results reveal a significant mediating effect of affective customer engagement/trust in the association of SSV and customer-perceived quality of life, highlighting the pertinence of customers' emotional (vs. cognitive) SSV assessments. Our findings are aimed at helping retailers to strategically position smart service technologies in their stores based on customer-perceived SSV.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":"137 ","pages":"Article 103097"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142240725","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}
TechnovationPub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103102
Yiyong Yu , Li Cheng , Danni Zhang
{"title":"How does market competition affect enterprise cooperative innovation? The moderating role of intellectual property protection and government subsidies","authors":"Yiyong Yu , Li Cheng , Danni Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103102","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103102","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Cooperative innovation is an effective strategy for enterprises to obtain innovation resources and reduce innovation costs. However, existing studies have paid less attention to why and when enterprises choose cooperative innovation strategies. Focusing on market competition as a salient feature of the task environment, this study explores the mechanisms through which it affects cooperative innovation. Using a sample of leading manufacturing enterprises in China between 2010 and 2018, we adopt a negative binomial model to test our hypotheses. The results show that market competition has a U-shaped relationship with cooperative innovation breadth and cooperative innovation depth. And the relationship between market competition and cooperative innovation is moderated by the institutional environment factors. Specifically, the main effect is negatively moderated by intellectual property protection. And government subsidies only have significant moderating effects on the relationship between market competition and cooperative innovation breadth, but no significant moderating effects on the relationship between market competition and cooperative innovation depth. Besides, revealing the aforementioned relationship, this study provides theoretical and practical implications on how to strike a balance between innovation resources acquisition from the external partners and the associated risks of cooperation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":"137 ","pages":"Article 103102"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142240726","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}
TechnovationPub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103101
Cécile Ayerbe , Caroline Boulos , Francesco Castellaneta
{"title":"Navigating protection mechanisms and innovation models: A literature-based configurational framework of intellectual property strategies","authors":"Cécile Ayerbe , Caroline Boulos , Francesco Castellaneta","doi":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103101","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103101","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study constructs a configurational framework to examine the complex relationships of factors influencing firms' mechanisms in intellectual property (IP) protection within the dichotomy of open and closed innovation models. Our methodology synthesizes an extensive literature review to identify and explicate four configurations of intellectual property and innovation strategies: open/formal, open/informal, closed/formal, and closed/informal. These configurations reflect the multifaceted decision-making firms face in aligning their innovation models with suitable IP mechanisms. By integrating factors such as industry sector, innovation nature, market dynamics, and legal context, we offer a comprehensive framework that captures the strategic considerations of intellectual property management, highlighting the importance of various factors in shaping firms' protection and innovation decisions. Our findings propose a nuanced understanding of IP strategy selection, setting the stage for future empirical investigations to test and refine this framework across diverse industries and markets.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49444,"journal":{"name":"Technovation","volume":"137 ","pages":"Article 103101"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166497224001512/pdfft?md5=123c43db38864bcc0a330d42a34b9340&pid=1-s2.0-S0166497224001512-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142240727","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}