{"title":"Industrial prototyping in the German automotive industry: bridging the gap between physical and virtual prototypes","authors":"Laura Rehberg , Alexander Brem","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2024.101798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jengtecman.2024.101798","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The automotive industry is undergoing a profound transformation characterized by the transition from hardware-centric to software-driven vehicles. This results in a variety of challenges, such as the increasing complexity of components, shortened development cycles, and evolving regulatory requirements that need to be met. In this context, our article explores the impact of UNECE regulations R.155 and R.156 on the technical prototyping phase in the development of mechatronic systems. Furthermore, we use the findings as an objective and examine the implications for the current landscape of prototyping research. Using a comprehensive case study in the German automotive industry with four OEMs, we investigate the current state of prototyping in the German automotive industry. Our analysis shows that although previous research suggests prototyping processes, they reach their limits in complex systems and cannot cope with the challenges of the industry. At the center of the conclusions is the need to develop a prototyping framework that includes a taxonomy of projects and forms the basis for a testing strategy to shorten time-to-market. As part of this, we propose the introduction of the novel term \"phygital prototype\" to bridge the gap between physical and virtual prototypes. Furthermore, we argue that product compliance should not only be integrated methodically but also propose concrete procedural steps within the prototyping framework.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0923474824000031/pdfft?md5=cd3c4d1deafe48c2eefb15de5165d0df&pid=1-s2.0-S0923474824000031-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139737814","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}
Sayed Muhammad Fawad Sharif , Wenping Wang , Naiding Yang , Omar Alghamdi , Fouzia Kanwal , Mikiale Gebreslase Gebremariam
{"title":"Sustaining SME agility through knowledge coupling, business process digitization, and innovation during crisis","authors":"Sayed Muhammad Fawad Sharif , Wenping Wang , Naiding Yang , Omar Alghamdi , Fouzia Kanwal , Mikiale Gebreslase Gebremariam","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2024.101802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jengtecman.2024.101802","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>SMEs faced a paradoxical state due to Covid-19. They must layoff to cover costs and doing so challenges their survival owing to loss of knowledgeable workforce. We empirically develop a strategy allowing SMEs to retain their innovation and agility besides downsizing. Analyses of 306 Chinese manufacturing SMEs indicate that innovation positively mediates between knowledge coupling (business process digitization) and market capitalizing agility (MCA) during downsizing. In no-downsizing sample knowledge coupling leads to innovation (MCA), also innovation leads to MCA; whereas, BPD does not contribute to innovation and MCA. This study is among the earliest empirical examinations to establish agility in Chinese SMEs through mediation of innovation and moderation of downsizing.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139942038","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 effect of innovation performance shortfall on firms’ trade-offs between exploratory and exploitative innovation: Do corporate governance factors matterʔ","authors":"Ge Ren , Ping Zeng , Xi Zhong","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2024.101801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jengtecman.2024.101801","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Whether and when innovation performance shortfall (innovation performance below innovation aspiration) affects firms’ trade-offs between exploratory and exploitative innovation remains an important unexplored question. Based on insights from behavioral theory of the firm and agency theory, we propose that as the innovation performance shortfall widens, firms will devote more resources to exploratory innovation rather than to exploitative innovation. That is, innovation performance shortfall positively affects firms’ relative exploratory innovation emphasis. Furthermore, we propose that board monitoring capacity and analyst coverage enhance the positive effect of innovation performance shortfall on firms’ relative exploratory innovation emphasis. Using data on Chinese listed companies from 2008 to 2020, we obtain empirical evidence supporting most of the above theoretical views.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139914870","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":"Latecomers’ technological catch-up dynamics in natural resource-based industries: Evidence from Iran’s oil & gas sector","authors":"Sina Tarighi","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101795","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study sheds light on the catch-up dynamics in natural resource-based industries (NRBI) of developing countries considering learning modes, technological capability dimensions, catch-up strategies, and windows of opportunity. It provides a framework for examining the technological catch-up of latecomer Exploration & Production companies while emphasizing the nature of the industry and characteristics of lagging behind and under-sanction countries like Iran. The analytical framework has been examined by studying two Iranian oil companies. Findings show that latecomer E&P companies can take two distinct paths for technological catch-up, including increasing the depth of operational capability and upgrading the level of advanced capability.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139100847","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":"Insights into environmental sustainability implementation during the design stage of New Product Development: An industry perspective","authors":"Emelia Delaney, Wei Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2024.101803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jengtecman.2024.101803","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Design is an important stage within New Product Development (NPD) for sustainable development, with increased research on the roles of designers and other stakeholders. However, previous studies have been predominately theoretical, which has provided little insight into the current status of industry when aiming to produce sustainable products. This study investigates these themes further from the perspective of practicing designers to determine how their role supports sustainable NPD. This has enabled the development of an illustrative process model, highlighting the thought and decision-making process of practicing designers when implementing key factors of environmental sustainability. Future research directions have also been outlined.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0923474824000080/pdfft?md5=64bf952dbf2f1bf52c1a463e0b0bcd5d&pid=1-s2.0-S0923474824000080-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139945007","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}
Souad Brinette , Abdoulkarim Idi Cheffou , Vessélina Tossan
{"title":"Management support and learning from innovation trophies: Insights from a large french energy company","authors":"Souad Brinette , Abdoulkarim Idi Cheffou , Vessélina Tossan","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101794","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article aims to show how a firm learns from innovation trophies while focusing on a specific category of these trophies concerning symbolic rewards of intrapreneurial projects that were professionally managed but failed for various reasons. It was written after a case study in a big company. The interest of this Trophy of Best Failed Ideas is discussed based on interviews conducted with intrapreneurs and managers. The results suggest that innovation \" failures \" can serve as a source for organizational learning and some of them should be called \" nearlings \" to comply with impression management theory.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139033739","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}
Felipe Bastos dos Reis , Alceu Salles Camargo Júnior
{"title":"Industry 4.0: An investigation of benefits and barriers with managers of Brazilian manufacturers adopters","authors":"Felipe Bastos dos Reis , Alceu Salles Camargo Júnior","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101786","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study aims to understand how Brazilian manufacturers’ managers perceive the benefits and barriers to adopting I4.0. The study collected data from 194 managers who implemented I4.0 solutions developed by technology suppliers supported by Finep Inovacred 4.0. Our results show that large and high-technology-intensity manufacturers considered managerial benefits more critical, while small-medium sized and medium-low technology-intensity manufacturers evaluate operational benefits as the most important. Data security and employee skills were evaluated as the main barriers by large and international manufacturers’ managers while high investments and government regulations were figured as the main barriers by small-medium sized and high-tech manufacturers’ managers.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138501786","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":"Research on innovation cooperation network of Chinese universities based on patent data","authors":"Yamin Du , Miaomiao Wang , Yushi Yin","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101784","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Innovation collaboration is of paramount importance in the socio-economic context. This study employs social network analysis methods to investigate patent data from Chinese universities between 2002 and 2021. We constructed a patent collaboration network and explored its dynamics. We analyzed and compared the evolution of university patent collaboration networks across different stages. The results indicate that collaboration among universities is not balanced, with a dominant presence of top-ranked universities. Businesses tend to engage in in-depth technical collaborations with universities in their respective fields. Companies place emphasis on leveraging the technological resources of universities for both technology and product innovation. The patent collaboration network has witnessed an increasing number of nodes and edges, tighter relationships, and greater diversification in collaboration patterns.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0923474823000541/pdfft?md5=97687f922bb65008975365740a2d355c&pid=1-s2.0-S0923474823000541-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138501785","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":"The set up process of Innovation Units: Resource development and interaction","authors":"Arianna Chiarabilli, Serena Galvani, Alessandro Pagano","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101785","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study observes the set-up and development process of Innovation Units in firms, exploring implications at the intra- and inter-organisational level. Methodology relies on an in-depth, qualitative single case study of an engineering firm operating in the Oil & Gas sector. The analysis identifies three phases constituting the process of developing Innovation Units (IUs); every phase requires combining interdependent intra- and inter-organisational resources, adding complexity to the whole process. An Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP) perspective based on the resource interaction approach (RIA) helps in disentangling IUs’ implementation, from which theoretical and managerial implications emerge.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0923474823000553/pdfft?md5=838c5ef7368d025f3fe7c86456045c6e&pid=1-s2.0-S0923474823000553-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138501232","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":"Organizational learning and the evolution of firms’ competitive advantage","authors":"Chien-Nan Chen , Jun-You Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101780","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>How do firms manage timing and transitions when changes occur in the level of their competitive advantage? This study explores the relationship between firms’ organizational learning and the evolution of their competitive advantage to ascertain when a firm should switch between exploitation and exploration learning as its competitive advantage changes. This study utilizes a sample of <em>Tech 100 in Taiwan</em> from 2000 to 2013 to test our arguments. The findings suggest that firms invest more resources in exploitation to build and sustain their competitive advantage. Conversely, they invest more resources in exploration when their competitive advantage faces erosion. The results indicate that firms adopt a punctuated equilibrium learning pattern, which balances the transition between exploration and exploitation over time to enable the adaptation to highly competitive environments. Furthermore, firms must take precautions to not fall into the success trap caused by excessive exploitation but should rather strengthen their abilities to conduct effective exploration in organizational learning. These findings offer important advances to our understanding of the competitive advantage evolution of firms’ organizational learning.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67740097","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}