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{"title":"Mutual perturbations in coupled exploration: Diverse impacts of feedback frequency and feedback timing","authors":"Jie Mi ,&nbsp;Jiamin Dong","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101899","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101899","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the process of coupled exploration, when feedback from other teams comes in the form of disapproval, comments, and suggestions, teams may need to modify the existing technical routes or even abandon previous choices, which can perturb their ongoing exploration activities. We employ a multi-agent computational model to analyze the aforementioned processes. We have found that frequent perturbations among the R&amp;D teams responsible for various subsystems can significantly impact the performance of coupled exploration, which is highly dependent on the speed at which teams search for better options and reach consensus. During the initial phase of coupling exploration, frequent perturbations permanently alter the trajectory of the exploration process. The reciprocal perturbation during the intermediate stage enhances the capacity for coupled exploration in subsequent stages, contingent upon the actor’s adeptness in swiftly discerning and selecting optimal strategies. When the team’s ability to identify the correct solution is weak, frequent early perturbations can result in increased divergence in feedback among teams. The presence of conflicting advice from other teams exacerbates the challenges faced by actors in making informed judgments based on feedback.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":"77 ","pages":"Article 101899"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144581315","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":"The key role of digital ambidextrous capabilities in cross-boundary innovation: Moderating effects of technological diversification and environmental turbulence","authors":"Xiaobin Feng,&nbsp;Bowen Xiao,&nbsp;Hanzhong Zheng","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101895","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101895","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although the importance of digital technology in fostering cross-boundary innovation (CBI) has attracted increasing attention from scholars and practitioners, research gaps persist concerning how firms’ capabilities in leveraging digital technologies influence CBI and the boundary conditions that either facilitate or impede its effectiveness. Based on firm capability theory, this study distinguishes firms’ digital ambidextrous capabilities to achieve different digital goals from an organisational ambidexterity perspective. Using fixed effects and interaction effects models to analyse data from 730 publicly listed Chinese firms, this investigation explores the roles of digital exploratory capability (DERC) and digital exploitative capability (DEIC) in enhancing CBI. The results indicate that DERC and DEIC substantially foster CBI. Technological diversification acts as a positive moderator in the relationship between DERC and CBI, whilst exhibiting an inverted U-shaped moderation between DEIC and CBI. Furthermore, environmental turbulence moderates the relationship between DERC and CBI in an inverted U-shape and positively moderates the relationship between DEIC and CBI. Additionally, SOEs are more reliant on DEIC for CBI and less susceptible to environmental turbulence. This study provides new managerial insights for firms to establish and leverage digital ambidextrous capabilities to achieve CBI.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":"77 ","pages":"Article 101895"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144514145","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":"Unpacking smart farming innovation: A systematic literature review on technological change in agriculture","authors":"Lea Daniel ,&nbsp;Lars Groeger ,&nbsp;Katharina Hölzle","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101898","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101898","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Technological change presents significant challenges for organizations and society and needs to be understood from a socio-technical perspective. Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) can play a crucial role in understanding disruptive change. Smart farming technologies (SFTs) are used as prime examples for disruption in a traditional industry. This paper shows how scholars can use TIM theories to contribute to a better understanding and subsequent recommendations for action. We review 973 articles using bibliographic coupling to synthesize existing literature. We identify the most prominent research themes and problematize the existing narratives in light of three theoretical approaches to technological change: evolutionary economics, social construction of technology, and actor-network theory. Finally, we present theory-driven questions for future research that indicate new directions for TIM. We comprehensively review and synthesize existing research at the intersection of smart farming technologies and the TIM domain, using bibliographic coupling to identify prominent research themes, highlight blind spots, and generate questions for future research. To counter the common shortcomings of systematic literature reviews in general (Alvesson and Sandberg, 2020) and trending automated literature reviews, we supplement our analysis with an extensive explorative-qualitative discussion of the results, linking our findings back to theory and deriving a comprehensive set of research questions for future research. We build upon Bruun and Hukkinens’ (2003) Integrative Framework for Studying Technological Change to guide our discussion and expand our critical review. Thus, we make three main contributions. First, we give a curated and comprehensive overview of articles on SFT and technological change to identify the theoretical deficiencies that lead to oversimplified assumptions regarding the dissemination of smart farming technologies. Second, we enrich the TIM literature by applying three established theories of technological change in a particular sector, making the connection between a specific domain of technological application (SFT) and established theories in the technology and innovation management field. Third, by detailing the extent to which the three theories help us understand the existing literature and discussing it in its entire complexity, we identify several blind spots of current research and derive research questions for future research in both, the SFT and the TIM field. This approach opposes a technology-deterministic and simplistic view of technological developments. By doing so, we aim to inspire TIM scholars to use theories that sharpen their understanding of the socio-technical system and the complexity of technological change. The article is structured as follows: we present the current state of smart farming adoption and diffusion, introduce the theoretical framework, describe the methodology employed for our b","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":"77 ","pages":"Article 101898"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144523521","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":"When digital platforms meet tradition: Phygital innovation in the cultural heritage","authors":"Danilo Pesce ,&nbsp;Claudia Franzè","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101896","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101896","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The digitalization of cultural and creative industries has often followed a path of convergence between physical and digital artefacts, leading to the rise of digital platforms that reshape value chains. However, the cultural heritage sector has undergone a different form of digital transformation. Digital platforms in this field create a “phygital” experience that blends tradition with innovation. This study examines the role of digital platforms in fostering social and economic development in the cultural heritage sector, focusing on Google Arts &amp; Culture, launched by Google in 2011. Through a longitudinal case study, we explore how digital platforms create value for multiple stakeholders—museums, users, and the platform itself—by enhancing efficiency, complementarities, novelty, and lock-in mechanisms. Our findings indicate that digital platforms introduce a more dynamic and complex ecosystem that drives growth and innovation while shifting cultural organizations from integrated supply chains to networks of strategic partnerships. The success of digital platforms in promoting social and economic development depends on museums’ ability to internalize legacy knowledge and platforms’ capacity to reinterpret this knowledge using advanced digital tools. This research contributes to the literature on innovation and strategic management by demonstrating that, rather than disrupting tradition, digital platforms enhance the cultural heritage experience. Additionally, while platforms like Google Arts &amp; Culture operate under a non-profit model to democratize culture, they capture significant value through data aggregation, which may play a key role in training artificial intelligence systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":"77 ","pages":"Article 101896"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144518523","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":"Differential effects of geographic-cluster and alliance resources on firm innovation: The moderating role of firm technological capability","authors":"Manish K. Srivastava ,&nbsp;Devi R. Gnyawali ,&nbsp;Stephen Tallman","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101901","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101901","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this study, we focus on two significant sources of a firm’s external knowledge—geographic clusters and strategic alliances—and examine whether a firm’s technological capability influences the effectiveness of these two sources of knowledge for firm innovation performance in different ways. We theorize that clusters and alliances differ in their knowledge flow mechanisms, leading to varying roles of internal technological capability. Specifically, we argue that a firm’s capability is more crucial for absorbing and integrating knowledge from clusters, where information flows in a fragmented form through informal channels. Furthermore, firms are less concerned about knowledge loss due to the nature and pattern of knowledge flows in clusters. In contrast, in alliances, where knowledge flow is more integrated and structured, technologically capable firms are generally more concerned about knowledge loss, which adversely affects reciprocity and, consequently, the flow of knowledge between partners. Moreover, since knowledge in alliances is transferred through structured mechanisms, the advantages of high internal capability in absorbing and integrating partner knowledge become less significant. Using 15 years of longitudinal data from the U.S. semiconductor industry—a sector characterized by innovation, strategic alliances, and clustering tendencies—we find that technologically stronger firms derive greater innovation benefits from clusters in enhancing the value of their innovations. In contrast, technologically weaker firms gain more from strategic alliances. Overall, our study supports our hypotheses and provides a nuanced understanding of how internal technological capability operates differently in leveraging external knowledge from clusters versus alliances.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":"77 ","pages":"Article 101901"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144739538","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":"Business ecosystem governance, digital capabilities, and enterprises' digital innovation performance -Empirical data from China","authors":"Jingtao Liu ,&nbsp;Qifang Gao ,&nbsp;Lidong Zhu","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101900","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101900","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Business ecosystems serve as a critical platform for firms to accumulate innovation resources, co-create value with stakeholders, and achieve innovation outcomes. Strengthening ecosystem governance can mitigate issues like \"free-riding\" and optimize the overall functioning of the ecosystem. Enhancing digital innovation performance through effective ecosystem governance has become a key strategy for complementary firms seeking innovation and growth. This study investigates how complementary firms within business ecosystems adapt to governance mechanisms to boost digital innovation performance. A survey of 684 complementary firms within the business ecosystem was conducted, with multiple regression analysis applied to examine the impact of ecosystem governance on digital innovation performance from the complementary firms' perspective. The analysis also explores the mediating role of digital capabilities and the moderating effect of technological dynamism. The findings indicate that: (1) both contractual and relational governance positively and significantly influence digital innovation performance; (2) digital perceptual capabilities and digital resource coordination capabilities mediate the relationship between ecosystem governance and digital innovation performance of complementary firms; (3) technological dynamism negatively moderates the relationship between contractual governance and digital capabilities, but does not influence the relationship between relational governance and digital capabilities. This research advances the understanding of the relationship between ecosystem governance and digital innovation performance in the context of the digital economy, offering insights from the perspective of complementary firms and highlighting the complex mechanisms through which ecosystem governance affects their digital innovation outcomes. The conclusions provide practical implications for complementary firms aiming to enhance their digital innovation performance within the digital economy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":"77 ","pages":"Article 101900"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144605690","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":"Virtual influencers for municipalities: A content analysis of risks and opportunities in public digital transformation","authors":"Silvana Secinaro ,&nbsp;Federico Lanzalonga ,&nbsp;Federico Chmet ,&nbsp;Ing. Milos Poliak","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101897","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101897","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The rapid advancement of digital technology has enabled the emergence of virtual influencers (VIs), who are being considered for their potential impact across various sectors, including the public sector and place branding. This study examines the integration of VIs into municipal branding, offering a novel perspective on the role of digital transformation in public-sector communication strategies. A content analysis of 262 cases sourced from various digital media was conducted to explore the potential and limitations of VIs in enhancing city images and engaging citizens. The findings highlight two main advantages of adopting VIs, which align with modern communication demands: their flexibility and innovative capabilities. However, significant challenges such as high production costs and concerns over authenticity and genuine engagement pose critical risks. This study further delves into the classification of VIs as “hyperreal capital,” expanding traditional categorizations of municipal assets to include digital and virtual elements. These insights are critical in redefining strategic public management and place branding, suggesting practical applications for digital personas in urban branding initiatives. This analysis serves as a foundational exploration, encouraging further investigation into the tangible and intangible impacts of VIs on municipal branding. We propose a new theoretical framework for understanding the role of digital innovation in public communication, providing a basis for future studies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":"77 ","pages":"Article 101897"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144490274","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":"Elite community dynamics, knowledge search, and innovation output –Evidence from energy-saving techniques in China","authors":"Yonghong Ma,&nbsp;Huili Ni,&nbsp;Enjia Zhu,&nbsp;Yuning Li","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101894","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101894","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper constructs a conceptual framework combining social network theory, knowledge base view, and absorptive capacity theory to investigate how elite community dynamics interact with internal/external knowledge search strategies in shaping community-level innovation outputs. Employing longitudinal patent data from China's energy-saving sector, we empirically demonstrate the nonlinear relationship between community dynamic and overall innovation outputs. Internal knowledge search moderates this nonlinear effect, whereas external cross-community search fails to produce multiplicative innovation gains. By highlighting the dualistic nature of knowledge boundaries，this work advances theoretical understanding community-based innovation mechanisms and offer practical guidelines for optimizing elite community governance through balanced dynamics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":"77 ","pages":"Article 101894"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144271981","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":"Exploring innovation management systems: A systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis","authors":"Natalia Karstegl ,&nbsp;Manon Enjolras ,&nbsp;Frédérique Mayer","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101876","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101876","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>An Innovation Management System is a structured framework designed to manage innovation within organizations to achieve strategic goals. This study conducts a systematic literature review of 118 articles (2003–2023) retrieved from Scopus and the Web of Science database. Through VOSViewer Software, a bibliometric analysis was conducted, with foundational articles, keywords and authors also identified. Through a bibliographic coupling and content analysis, we identify four clusters: Theories and Conceptual Frameworks, Methodological Approaches, Research Areas &amp; Sectors and Current and Future Impacts. Our research shows a focus on the theorical aspect of IMS, rather than practical applications. These findings and their implications are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":"76 ","pages":"Article 101876"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144089647","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":"Solver brokerage as an open innovation tool for industrial transfer of mathematical technologies","authors":"Silvia Vermicelli ,&nbsp;Antonino Sgalambro ,&nbsp;Maurizio Ceseri","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101883","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2025.101883","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Mathematical technologies are recognised as a key enabling factor for innovation and competitiveness in the Industry. Although Open Innovation enables innovation processes for companies, there is a lack of studies about the effectiveness of OI mechanisms for mathematical technologies transfer. We fill this gap by exploring Solver Brokerage as a suitable tool for fostering industry-research collaborations based on mathematical technologies. We present a single case study based on a project promoting the industrial transfer of mathematical technologies leveraging a Solver Brokerage approach. We critically discuss the weaknesses and strengths of this approach, sharing valuable contributions for both scholars and practitioners.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":"76 ","pages":"Article 101883"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144167236","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}