Antonio Thomas , Giuseppe Scandurra , Alfonso Carfora
{"title":"Profiling green innovative behaviour: Evidence from Italian technology-based SMEs","authors":"Antonio Thomas , Giuseppe Scandurra , Alfonso Carfora","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101764","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101764","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Scientific literature investigating the process of adoption of green innovations (GIs) by technology-based SMEs is still incomplete and fragmented despite their importance for a country's economic development. In this paper, the authors analyse a sample of these SMEs to investigate how they relate to GIs. The findings show that these SMEs follow different approaches toward GIs, their decision being greatly affected by their capacity to establish networks with external partners, as well as by the presence of a suitable business climate. The statistical analysis conducted highlights the patterns followed and provides a geographic representation of the propensity for eco-innovation and networking.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 101764"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41783699","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":"Relationship management for recurrent project value creation","authors":"Nelli Theyel , Gregory Theyel","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101769","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101769","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper investigates how firms can be the most effective at relationship management to create initial and long-term, recurrent project value. The paper uses qualitative data from in-depth interviews to analyse the project experience of a multinational firm with its strategic partners to better understand inter-firm relationship success. The analysis shows that complementary resources and knowledge sharing are necessary, but not sufficient for value creation from inter-firm relationships, and competitive alignment is introduced to differentiate between the successful and less successful relationships. The research shows the importance of defining competitive alignment during the negotiation process and sustaining it throughout each relationship cycle in order to create long-term value. In addition, practitioners can learn how to exploit formal control mechanisms to incentivize competitive alignment with their external partners.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 101769"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41627883","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}
Jelena Petronijevic , Alain Etienne , Samuel Bassetto , Ali Siadat
{"title":"The missing link between project and product risk management: From the review to the call to action","authors":"Jelena Petronijevic , Alain Etienne , Samuel Bassetto , Ali Siadat","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101770","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101770","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Comprehensive process / project and product risk management is not easy to achieve due to the complexity of products and projects, and the nature of standardized methods which are usually suitable for one of the two areas. This review investigates risk management tendencies in engineering literature. It distinguishes the notion of risk regarding the subject involved; emphasizes the risk tradeoffs based on the observed problem; shows the scientific gap in the sense of needs and global guidelines; and provides direction for future development in these areas. The review is concluded with the call for action including discussion and axes of development.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 101770"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48341237","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}
Omar Bentahar , Stephane Tywoniak , Thomas Loilier
{"title":"The project manager as chameleon? Changing project manager roles with technological uncertainty","authors":"Omar Bentahar , Stephane Tywoniak , Thomas Loilier","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101767","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101767","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper proposes an integration of the fragmented views of project manager (PM) roles from an organizational perspective: technical, management, leader, innovator, and champion. We explore how PM roles appear to be discriminately activated depending on context through an empirical study of 26 case studies of dam projects with varying technological uncertainty profiles. Our study extends the organizational project management theory beyond the leadership perspective by integrating a dynamic conception of PM roles. This leads to a conception of the PM as needing to adapt mobilization of roles according to context, much like a chameleon changes its hue.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 101767"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48377006","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":"Measuring R&D team’s focus towards innovation: Scale development and empirical validation","authors":"Gaurav Dilip Tikas","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101766","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101766","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study aims to conceptualize ‘focus towards innovation’ as a team-level construct and develop a theoretically grounded and empirically robust mechanism to measure it within organizational settings. A rigorous multi-method design was used to develop and validate the team focus towards innovation (TFI) scale. Factor analysis on the analysis sample (n1 = 256) and validation sample (n2 = 216) were used to identify and validate the three-factorial structure of the TFI construct with sub-dimensions – inner focus, other focus, and outer focus towards innovation. This unique three-dimensional factor structure, and its item-level composition are the major contributions of this study</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 101766"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46976451","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 the probability of firm cooperation in innovation: The role of technological intensity, knowledge intensity, and size","authors":"Giovanna Lara , Anna Arbussà , Josep Llach","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101763","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101763","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study explores the probability of a company cooperating in innovation, in particular with universities and research institutes, in relation to its technological and knowledge intensity, and its size. It uses data from the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) conducted in Spain in 2014. While size is the relevant variable to explain propensity to collaborate with universities and research institutes in the case of manufacturing firms, knowledge intensity better explains the probability of service firms cooperating with these institutions. Regional analysis is relevant for the appropriate translation of European innovation policies to specific innovation patterns of manufacturing and service firms.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 101763"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43412140","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":"Configuring motivational pathways to manage academics’ individual motivation for engagement: Insights from German higher education institutions","authors":"Eva Sormani , Peter van der Sijde","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101768","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101768","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Higher education institutions are a driver of innovation within the knowledge-based economy. Knowledge transfer via academic engagement with society is a promising response to societal challenges. This study investigates academics’ motivation to engage with society by testing hypotheses derived from self-determination-theory. Effects of intrinsic regulation (joy), integrated regulation (internalized values) and the mediation by perceived autonomy (choicefullness) were tested using structural equation modelling, in which unique survey data collected from academics in Germany were analyzed. Two motivational pathways for academic engagement with society were found to be significant. These results provide relevant insights for higher education institution managers.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 101768"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43697018","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":"A reverse engineering-based model for innovation process in complex product systems: Multiple case studies in the aviation industry","authors":"Maryam Rozesara , Soroush Ghazinoori , Manouchehr Manteghi , Seyed Habibollah Tabatabaeian","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101765","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101765","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Reverse engineering is an activity of innovation based on knowledge and data acquired from the earlier design, which plays a significant role in complex product systems (CoPS) industries. However, no study has yet been conducted on the innovation process based on reverse engineering in these industries. This paper provides a model for this process and addresses hidden and unknown interactions between reverse and forward engineering. We argue how reverse engineering in CoPS projects can lead to the designing and manufacturing of an innovative product. First of all, an analytical framework was developed by reviewing extant literature on reverse engineering and innovation process models. Then, a ten-step process model was developed by a chronological multiple case study of three CoPS in the aviation industry and analyzing reverse and forward engineering in cross-case comparison. The stages of the model included; data evaluation and verification, technical data generation, design verification, design implementation, concept, development, production, utilization, support, and retirement. This model is a complex system of dynamic, iterative, concurrent, recursive, and time-interdependent processes. It is capable of providing a systematic, pragmatic, and detailed framework for better management of the innovation process in CoPS as designed and produced based on reverse engineering.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 101765"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49123024","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":"Critical Success Factors in a multi-stage adoption of Artificial Intelligence: A Necessary Condition Analysis","authors":"Sam Solaimani, Lucas Swaak","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101760","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Notwithstanding the widespread publicity, Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption has remained relatively limited. One important reason is a lack of insight into critical factors in the adoption process. This study reviews the literature on AI and several similar technologies to identify success factors and employs Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA) to empirically assess the criticality of the identified factors across various stages of adoption. The findings evidence the necessity of performance expectancy, top management support, technical competencies and resources, perceived ease of use, organizational compatibility, and trading partner leverage with varying levels of criticality across various stages of AI adoption.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 101760"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49877296","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}
José Coelho Rodrigues , Ana Cristina Barros , João Claro
{"title":"Configurational model for the process of alignment in technology implementations","authors":"José Coelho Rodrigues , Ana Cristina Barros , João Claro","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101761","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101761","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The full realization of the potential of a technology requires good understanding of its implementation. During implementations, lack of compatibility between technology and its adopters require dynamic sequences of alignment. This process is understood to be central to the success in technology assimilation. This paper proposes a configurational model to explain and predict the alignment process during technology implementations, derived from a multiple case research of the implementation of a retinopathy screening program in networks of healthcare providers. It builds on and expands previous research capturing in a holistic way the alignment process and its nature of adaptation over time.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 101761"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45475864","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}