{"title":"Short communication: To speed or not to speed? The impact of market type and the COVID pandemic","authors":"Haili Zhang, Michael Song","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101737","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101737","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Rapidly developing and bring an innovation to market (innovation speed) should have positive effects on performance. Yet innovation and technology management literature also suggests that faster innovation speed may lead to higher innovation failures in some scenarios. We investigate the value of innovation speed in four market scenarios: established markets before and during the COVID pandemic and emergent markets before and during the COVID pandemic. The study findings indicate that the pandemic has major implications for the value of innovation speed. In established markets where customer needs are well defined, rapid innovation increases performance before the pandemic; yet fast innovation speed leads to worst performance during the pandemic. In emergent markets where customer needs are still being formed, before the pandemic, the effect of innovation speed on performance is U-shaped (that is, slow or rapid innovation speed is better than moderate innovation speeds). In contrast, increasing innovation speed always leads to higher performance during the pandemic and innovation is most successful at very fast innovation speed. We present top ten success factors for managing innovation speed before and during the pandemic. The research findings are applicable for the post-pandemic new normal. The study also advances the engineering and technology management literature.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46514578","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}
Zin Mar Aung, Djoen San Santoso, Tharindu C. Dodanwala
{"title":"Effects of demotivational managerial practices on job satisfaction and job performance: Empirical evidence from Myanmar’s construction industry","authors":"Zin Mar Aung, Djoen San Santoso, Tharindu C. Dodanwala","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2022.101730","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2022.101730","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The study examined how demotivational managerial practices in the construction industry are linked to job satisfaction and performance. Data were gathered from a questionnaire survey of 260 non-managerial construction professionals in Yangon, Myanmar. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted to assess the underline dimensions of demotivational managerial practices before developing a structural equation model. The model identified job satisfaction as a positive direct antecedent of job performance. Inadequate reward and recognition directly predicted a decline in job satisfaction. Besides, the relationship between inadequate reward and recognition and job performance was fully mediated by job satisfaction. The empirical component of the findings was also discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44663799","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":"Flawed decision models and flexibility in product development","authors":"Gary J. Summers , Christopher M. Scherpereel","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2022.101728","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2022.101728","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this article we answer a fundamental concern of product development management: How to best respond to uncertainty, unforeseeable uncertainty, and complexity in product development? To answer this question we apply reliability analysis, from behavioral economics, to product development and build a new model, showing that successful frameworks, practices, tools, and decision-making succeed by reducing the impact of decision errors. Our model contributes seven practical principles for managing action flexibility in product development. By applying these principles, product development managers can successfully exploit many existing practices, improve decision-making effectiveness, and leverage action flexibility.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49528520","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}
Wesley da Paixão de Oliveira , Márcia Regina Neves Guimarães , João Eduardo Azevedo Ramos da Silva
{"title":"Ecosystems, strategy, and resilience: Four empirical cases in the COVID-19 crisis","authors":"Wesley da Paixão de Oliveira , Márcia Regina Neves Guimarães , João Eduardo Azevedo Ramos da Silva","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101734","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101734","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The pandemic pushed companies to rethink competitive strategies and the innovation ecosystem structure. Then, we studied four small organizations from different industries through interviews, observations, and documentation. We offer five key findings: First, the crisis affected the cases in distinct ways, benefiting those in the healthcare sector. Second, innovation ecosystems provided opportunities for digitalization to keep businesses running. Third, resilience and initiative from the ecosystem leaders were crucial in responding to the crisis. Fourth, shifts in competition and cooperation favored survival. Lastly, the competitive strategy and ecosystem goals set before the pandemic have not changed, but how to achieve them.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43742469","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":"An integrated framework for assessing the technology roadmapping process from multiple perspectives: The case at the sector level","authors":"Youngjung Geum , Clare Farrukh , Sungjoo Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101732","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101732","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We propose an approach to assess, and thus, update the technology roadmapping process. Building on extant literature, we define the ideal roadmapping process and suggest an integrated framework to guide its improvement from three perspectives: process maturity, system elements, and contextual validity. To verify its effectiveness, we applied the proposed approach to roadmapping conducted by a Korean government agency responsible for technology planning at the national level. We found that the assessment guidelines could help an organization systematically identify its roadmap process’s strengths and weaknesses to build an approach toward process enhancement.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45430088","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":"Knowledge integration in interdisciplinary research teams: Role of social networks","authors":"Xueyan Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101733","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2023.101733","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Successful knowledge integration in interdisciplinary research teams is critical for solving complex problems and achieving innovation. Empirical research on knowledge integration in interdisciplinary research teams only emphasizes the role of knowledge heterogeneity but with mixed findings and ignores the impacts of team social networks where members are embedded. Based on the knowledge-based view and social network theories, we examine the effect of knowledge heterogeneity on knowledge integration in the interdisciplinary research team context and the influences of social network factors, including tie strength, structural equivalence, and betweenness centrality on the main effect. Based on a questionnaire survey of 346 members of 46 interdisciplinary research teams in a top research university in China, we find an inverted U-shaped relationship between knowledge heterogeneity and knowledge integration. Tie strength and structural equivalence positively moderate the quadratic relationship, respectively. We do not find support for the moderating role of betweenness centrality. This study extends our knowledge of the relationship between knowledge heterogeneity and knowledge integration and enriches the literature on interdisciplinary collaboration and social network theories.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49108660","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 importance of possessing knowledge on black-box components: The case of smartphone OEMs","authors":"Antonello Cammarano, Vincenzo Varriale, Francesca Michelino, Mauro Caputo","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2022.101727","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2022.101727","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Traditionally, the black-box approach in buyer-supplier relationships does not require knowledge exchanges between the actors, since the purchased module is autonomously developed by the supplier. However, the purpose of the article is to demonstrate that in high-tech sectors, despite the presence of black-box approaches, the OEM can achieve higher market performance if it develops in-house competences on purchased modules. To measure OEM component knowledge, a content analysis of patents in the smartphone industry is performed. The results show the importance for OEMs to accumulate both general and specific component knowledge, although modules are outsourced.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49190004","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":"How firms’ openness promotes radical innovation performance: The joint interaction effects of political ties and business ties","authors":"Chun-Hsien Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2022.101705","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2022.101705","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates the role of openness to innovation knowledge sources in driving firms’ radical innovation. First, we develop a theoretical model that predicts how political ties and business ties can be used by firms as a complementary mechanism to capitalize on their preferential resources. This complementary mechanism is more effective than relying on a single kind of tie. Moreover, using Chinese firm-level data, we find that openness has a curvilinear relationship with firms’ radical innovation performance. Second, we show that the joint interaction effects of political ties and business ties significantly influence firms’ openness to engaging in radical innovation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43795270","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":"Sentiments about autonomous vehicles","authors":"Hio Nam Io , Chang Boon Lee , Zhaotong Lian","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2022.101717","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2022.101717","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There is a lot of hype about autonomous vehicles (AV) but there are few studies on how people feel about this innovative product. To fill this research gap and to provide richer insights on this subject, this study crawled 10,374 AV-related comments from a microblogging website and used sentiment analysis to evaluate people’s feelings and perceptions. The results show that people’s sentiments depend not just on the AVs (e.g., their safety and convenience) but also AVs’ impact on society, such as unemployment and legislation. The sentiments therefore transcend beyond individual considerations. The paper discusses the implications of the results and the contributions to the AV literature.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44167880","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 arcanum of artificial intelligence in enterprise applications: Toward a unified framework","authors":"Heinz Herrmann","doi":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2022.101716","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jengtecman.2022.101716","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Disagreement and confusion about artificial intelligence (AI) terminology impede researchers, innovators, and practitioners when developing and implementing enterprise applications. The prevailing ambiguities and use of buzzwords are exacerbated by media and vendor marketing hype. This study identifies several ambiguities within and across AI fields and subfields. Combining a systematic review with a sequential mixed-models design, a total of 26,143 publications were reviewed and mapped, making this the largest conceptual study in the AI field. A unified framework is proposed as an Euler diagram to bring about clarity through a \"common language\" for AI researchers, innovators, and practitioners.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Technology Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0923474822000467/pdfft?md5=7c9c380a9af40425ad1acb56079d4475&pid=1-s2.0-S0923474822000467-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45395238","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}