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Author-Name: Laurent Scaringella
Author-X-Name-First: Laurent
Author-X-Name-Last: Scaringella
Title: Initial and further business development: highlights from business model, open innovation, and knowledge management perspectives
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In a technological spin-off, initial and further business development is a two-stage challenge of survival and growth. Spin-offs' business development relies on the design and renewal of an adequate business model, effective open innovation, and advanced knowledge management. This study describes the initial and further business development of a successful spin-off, MEMS%Co, through a longitudinal case study. The business model benefited from specific revenue/investments streams from clients and was subsequently supplemented by new business models in novel applications. Open innovation offered a unique outside-in process from universities, suppliers, and research centres and then transformed into an advanced new process. Knowledge management focused on cross-technical knowledge modularity and subsequently on knowledge recombination.
Journal: Int. J. of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Pages: 103-125
Issue: 1/2
Volume: 22
Year: 2018
Keywords: business development; survival; growth; entrepreneur; start-up; spin-off; business model; open innovation; knowledge management; case study; longitudinal; MEMS.
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Author-Name: Markus Voeth
Author-X-Name-First: Markus
Author-X-Name-Last: Voeth
Author-Name: Jana Poelzl
Author-X-Name-First: Jana
Author-X-Name-Last: Poelzl
Author-Name: Anne Theresa Eidhoff
Author-X-Name-First: Anne Theresa
Author-X-Name-Last: Eidhoff
Title: It's all about growth - an empirical status report of business development
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While business development (BD) is currently a widely spread term among practitioners, to date BD has received only little attention in scientific research. The objective of our study is to improve current knowledge on BD by analysing the status quo of BD in practice. Therefore, we conduct a descriptive quantitative empirical study on a cross-industry basis with 352 German companies. Specifically, the analysis focuses on understanding, activities, organisation, people, instruments as well as challenges and future relevance of BD. Our results indicate that BD is understood as the search for growth opportunities in four key dimensions: products, processes, markets and/or business models. It has top management access, highly skilled people with diverse backgrounds, who mainly apply instruments found in management literature. Main challenges in BD result from a paucity of human and financial resources. Yet in the future, BD is of increasing relevance for firms.
Journal: Int. J. of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Pages: 4-32
Issue: 1/2
Volume: 22
Year: 2018
Keywords: business development; strategy; strategic management; strategic marketing; corporate entrepreneurship; growth opportunities; status report.
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Author-Name: Manuel Ángel Nogueira
Author-X-Name-First: Manuel Ángel
Author-X-Name-Last: Nogueira
Author-Name: Sara Fernández-López
Author-X-Name-First: Sara
Author-X-Name-Last: Fernández-López
Author-Name: Nuria Calvo
Author-X-Name-First: Nuria
Author-X-Name-Last: Calvo
Author-Name: David Rodeiro-Pazos
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Rodeiro-Pazos
Title: Firm characteristics, financial variables and types of innovation: influence in Spanish firms' survival
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Much emphasis has been placed on the importance of firms' innovation to survive and prosper in today's economic environment. At the same time, it is generally accepted that innovation often increases the financial risk of firms and, as a result, their failure risk. Using a dataset of 148 Spanish SMEs, we analyse the impact of innovative activities on firms' survival over the period 2010-2012. The results show that the firms' financial performances have important effects on survival with regard to innovative activities: whereas commercial innovation keeps the firm away from bankruptcy, product innovation increases the survival chances of firms. The novelty of this research is the use of a systemic approach that interrelates financial variables, innovation and firm survival.
Journal: Int. J. of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Pages: 57-79
Issue: 1/2
Volume: 22
Year: 2018
Keywords: firm survival; innovation; R%D; SMEs.
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Author-Name: Sophie Veilleux
Author-X-Name-First: Sophie
Author-X-Name-Last: Veilleux
Author-Name: Nancy Haskell
Author-X-Name-First: Nancy
Author-X-Name-Last: Haskell
Author-Name: Donald Béliveau
Author-X-Name-First: Donald
Author-X-Name-Last: Béliveau
Title: Opportunity recognition by international high-technology start-up and growth photonics firms
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For high-technology firms that depend on foreign markets from the outset, identifying opportunities is a matter not only of business development but of survival. This study contributes to the opportunity recognition literature by exploring the paths taken by these international entrepreneurs to find opportunities in foreign markets. Moreover, it examines the paths of firms at different lifecycle stages. Based on in-depth interviews with five start-ups and five growth firms in Canada specialised in photonics, this research delves into both the personal characteristics of the entrepreneurial teams and the methods they use to find international opportunities. The sources they use as well as the actions undertaken are examined and compared. The practical goal is to identify path components which may be adjusted in start-up firms to improve the probability of finding and developing fruitful opportunities.
Journal: Int. J. of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Pages: 126-151
Issue: 1/2
Volume: 22
Year: 2018
Keywords: opportunity recognition; international business development; high-tech SME; start-up; growth firm; international entrepreneurship; network; prior knowledge; previous experience; alertness; activeness; spin-off.
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Author-Name: Gregory Reyes
Author-X-Name-First: Gregory
Author-X-Name-Last: Reyes
Title: Strategy and professional identity of VSE owner-managers
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This study shows how the professional identity of owner-managers of VSEs guides their strategy and enterprise growth. The literature on VSEs considers that owner-managers play an important role in the strategic orientation of their enterprise. While we join this stream of literature, our article highlights the role of this rarely analysed factor. We studied several cases in order to illustrate the effects of the owner-manager's professional identity. The two VSEs studied are pharmacies - an activity sector that is atypical and unstable. The analysis of these contrasting cases shows they adopt different strategies that depend on whether they attach more importance to the 'health professional' or 'retailer' dimension of their job. By combining professional identity with 'owner-managers', this research illustrates the importance of conceptions of 'the job' on strategic behaviour.
Journal: Int. J. of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Pages: 152-165
Issue: 1/2
Volume: 22
Year: 2018
Keywords: owner-manager; professional identity; very small enterprise; VSE; pharmacist; strategy; growth.
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Author-Name: Christian Corsi
Author-X-Name-First: Christian
Author-X-Name-Last: Corsi
Author-Name: Antonio Prencipe
Author-X-Name-First: Antonio
Author-X-Name-Last: Prencipe
Title: Innovation propensity and international development of small and medium firms: the moderating effects of corporate governance structure
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The paper aims to explore the moderating effects of governance structure on the relationship between innovation propensity and international development of SMEs. Based on agency and organisational learning theories, we hypothesise that ownership concentration, institutional ownership, family-owned firm, and foreign group affiliation have positive moderating effects on the innovation-internationalisation relationship. Using a sample of 2,876 Italian firms, the results suggest that ownership concentration and foreign group affiliation positively moderate the relation between innovation and international development. Institutional investors seem to have no interest in being involved in innovative processes or, to some extent, in the international expansion. Family-owned firms have a positive influence on international development only when they interact with the innovation efforts of the firms.
Journal: Int. J. of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Pages: 80-102
Issue: 1/2
Volume: 22
Year: 2018
Keywords: business development; SME; internationalisation; innovation; family ownership; institutional ownership; ownership concentration; foreign business group.
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Author-Name: Fanny Simon
Author-X-Name-First: Fanny
Author-X-Name-Last: Simon
Author-Name: Albéric Tellier
Author-X-Name-First: Albéric
Author-X-Name-Last: Tellier
Title: The ambivalent influence of a business developer's social ties in a multinational company
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The aim of this article is to determine how business developers overcome the challenge of developing new opportunities in multinationals by using their personal networks. Our study addresses a new activity development project that began in 2005 at the French R%D centre of NXP, one of the leading producers of semiconductors. In 2011, this project was established in a new company. By using primary and secondary data, we describe the resources a business developer managed to access through his personal and professional network between 2006 and 2014 and the obstacles that hampered his efforts. We demonstrate that the business developer's personal network was useful in acquiring new ideas and getting people involved in the project. However, the MNC may have prevented the business developer from developing a network adequate to secure financing for the project.
Journal: Int. J. of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Pages: 166-187
Issue: 1/2
Volume: 22
Year: 2018
Keywords: innovation; multinational; R%D; semiconductors; social network; business development.
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Author-Name: Hans Eibe Sørensen
Author-X-Name-First: Hans Eibe
Author-X-Name-Last: Sørensen
Title: Making planning work: insights from business development
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Planning for a growth opportunity's success remains a challenge. Under which conditions does planning work, then? This exploratory study investigates the business development tasks and processes that span a growth opportunity's planning phase and its implementation phase and their unique performance implications. On the basis of 73 CEO responses from growth SMEs, the results show that business development increases firm performance and that the effectiveness of business planning depends on business development. Business developer support is found to positively influence firm performance per se. Business development is presented as an important organisational capability to pursue growth opportunities and subsequently theoretically anchored in the resource-based view of the firm. Implications for managers and for future business development research are discussed.
Journal: Int. J. of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Pages: 33-56
Issue: 1/2
Volume: 22
Year: 2018
Keywords: business development; business developer; growth opportunities; business planning; developer support; implementation; integration; organisational capability; firm performance; innovation management.
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Author-Name: Amit Kundu
Author-X-Name-First: Amit
Author-X-Name-Last: Kundu
Author-Name: Arabinda Bhattacharya
Author-X-Name-First: Arabinda
Author-X-Name-Last: Bhattacharya
Title: Relative importance of design parameters: a study of selected Indian organisations
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The central problem is to design the organisations for superior performance on the basis of redesign mechanisms such as uncertainty, differentiation and integration. In the backdrop of the ongoing economic liberalisation in India, the specified sector that includes chemical; petro-chemical process industry; agricultural related industry; processed food industry; bio-chemical related industry was undertaken for research. The objective of the present study is to estimate the relative importance of uncertainty, differentiation and integration and also of their different levels, indicating the design specificity of the groups. On the basis of the data, three groups have been identified. Relative importance of design parameters and also that of their levels have been estimated for each of the group. Three groups face the business environment in different ways. So, those three groups have to formulate the three redesign strategies in different ways for superior performance.
Journal: Int. J. of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Pages: 191-205
Issue: 3
Volume: 22
Year: 2018
Keywords: organisation design; uncertainty reduction; differentiation; integration; performance; chemical sector; India; flexible; dynamic; rigid; conjoint analysis.
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Author-Name: Sanjeev Prashar
Author-X-Name-First: Sanjeev
Author-X-Name-Last: Prashar
Author-Name: T. Sai Vijay
Author-X-Name-First: T. Sai
Author-X-Name-Last: Vijay
Author-Name: Chandan Parsad
Author-X-Name-First: Chandan
Author-X-Name-Last: Parsad
Title: Women entrepreneurship in India: a review of barriers and motivational factors
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As the traditional definition of entrepreneurship had never focused on the gender of entrepreneurs, it could very well be used to define women entrepreneur without constraints. Entrepreneurship by women can be understood as the practice wherever females systematise various elements of production, willing to take risks and be responsible for employing other people. Focusing on the structural reforms in the Indian economy, the well-known 'liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation' policies in the early 1990s, completely changed the Indian outlook. It had spurred the start-up phenomenon in the country and emphasis on women entrepreneurship had gained significantly ever since. There are many prosperous women entrepreneurs who have outplayed their male counterparts in many aspects. Nevertheless, women as entrepreneurs are less than one third of the total gamut of entrepreneurs in the country. The main objective of this study is to identify barriers that hinder women's progress as entrepreneurs and examines the factors that motivate them to take up entrepreneurship. On the basis of review, this conceptual study has suggested few propositions that could be further empirically tested.
Journal: Int. J. of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Pages: 206-219
Issue: 3
Volume: 22
Year: 2018
Keywords: women entrepreneurs; entrepreneurship; barriers; motivation; opportunity for entrepreneurship; gender.
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Author-Name: Huda Al Matroushi
Author-X-Name-First: Huda Al
Author-X-Name-Last: Matroushi
Author-Name: Fauzia Jabeen
Author-X-Name-First: Fauzia
Author-X-Name-Last: Jabeen
Author-Name: Sherine Abdel All
Author-X-Name-First: Sherine Abdel
Author-X-Name-Last: All
Title: Prioritising the factors promoting innovation in Emirati female-owned SMEs: AHP approach
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The purpose of this study is to identify and prioritise the various factors linked to innovation in nascent and established SMEs owned by Emirati women in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Emirati female entrepreneurs (n = 30) were selected from the various emirates based on their nascent or established business stage. An AHP technique was used to analyse the weight of critical factors. Collectively, the respondents prioritised innovation strategy, opportunity recognition, finance and motivation as the main criteria that promote innovation in Emirati women-owned SMEs in the UAE. Raising and managing internal and external finances were also seen as a barrier women face that would prevent them from starting an innovative business. The outcome of the study is expected to provide policymakers with explicit ideas about the importance of the variables linked to innovation in Emirati female-owned SMEs. This will help them to systemise and prioritise the critical, decisive innovation development factors in Emirati-owned SMEs, which will eventually increase the participation of Emirati women in the economic growth of the UAE. This study is the first of its kind to present an AHP model and is a relevant contribution to both the literature and the practice of innovation.
Journal: Int. J. of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Pages: 220-250
Issue: 3
Volume: 22
Year: 2018
Keywords: AHP; Emirati; SMEs; female entrepreneurs; innovation; United Arab Emirates.
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Author-Name: Hasan Al Beshr
Author-X-Name-First: Hasan Al
Author-X-Name-Last: Beshr
Author-Name: Chowdhury Golam Hossan
Author-X-Name-First: Chowdhury Golam
Author-X-Name-Last: Hossan
Title: Key drivers for service innovation in the UAE's hotel sector
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The tourism sector in the UAE, which is witnessing strong growth, reached 13.8 million arrivals in 2013. The MasterCard Global Destination Cities Index reported that Dubai was ranked as the fourth most visited global site in 2015. In February 2015, the occupancy rate in Dubai reached 86.2% and helped contribute to the AED 6.5 bn in industry revenue in 2014. Service innovation helps hotels sustain the current market and create new business. The literature has focused on innovation more than efficiency as a vital factor of business success, growth, or failure. The main objective of the current study is to investigate the relationships between service innovation in the hotel sector in UAE and organisational support for innovation, resistance to change, organisational trust, work engagement, and organisational conflict. Quantitative research methods were used in this study. The research was conducted among 326 employees working in different levels of departments in UAE hotels. The main results of the study show that organisational support for innovation, organisational trust, and work engagement are positively correlated with service innovation, whereas resistance to change and organisational conflict failed to achieve statistical significance with service innovation.
Journal: Int. J. of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Pages: 251-268
Issue: 3
Volume: 22
Year: 2018
Keywords: innovation; service innovation; work engagement; organisational trust; resistance to change; RTC; organisational conflict; support for innovation; UAE; Dubai; hotels; hospitality.
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Author-Name: Rabindra Kumar Pradhan
Author-X-Name-First: Rabindra Kumar
Author-X-Name-Last: Pradhan
Author-Name: Pratishtha Bhattacharyya
Author-X-Name-First: Pratishtha
Author-X-Name-Last: Bhattacharyya
Title: Building organisational resilience: role of cherishing at work
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The present day organisational needs are more centred on exploring positive behavioural approaches and psychological capacities ensuring sustained high performance, a resilient workforce, and new ideas for engagement. This has paved the way for maximising the social and intellectual potential of the workforce through strategic behavioural concepts and techniques. The creative synergy of capitalising on behavioural potentials helps a company thrive amidst several adversities and become resilient. Based on the urge to develop a new substantial way to maximise organisational resilience, the present study conceptualises organisational resilience with cherishing. Theoretical implications and future research possibilities of the paper are discussed.
Journal: Int. J. of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Pages: 269-285
Issue: 3
Volume: 22
Year: 2018
Keywords: organisational resilience; cherishing; personal resilience; workplace.
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Author-Name: Vaibhav Tripathi
Author-X-Name-First: Vaibhav
Author-X-Name-Last: Tripathi
Author-Name: Ajai Pratap Singh
Author-X-Name-First: Ajai Pratap
Author-X-Name-Last: Singh
Author-Name: Ramendu Roy
Author-X-Name-First: Ramendu
Author-X-Name-Last: Roy
Title: Effect of economic growth initiatives on regional economies: a study in the Indian context
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In the present context when India is preparing to witness huge economic expansion though numbers of development programs and initiatives, it becomes important to evaluate them on the basis of their usefulness, structure and evenness in development by analysing different studies in the same field, an attempt has been made to find suitable approaches required for economic development. Increase in regional disparity in the phase of economical development makes the central issue of the paper and the study have been done to find viable methods to minimise it.
Journal: Int. J. of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Pages: 286-297
Issue: 3
Volume: 22
Year: 2018
Keywords: economic development; entrepreneurial development; 'Make in India'; Indian economic development initiatives; India.
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Author-Name: Isita Lahiri
Author-X-Name-First: Isita
Author-X-Name-Last: Lahiri
Author-Name: Monojit Banerjee
Author-X-Name-First: Monojit
Author-X-Name-Last: Banerjee
Title: Brand sustainability and brand development: critical issues for micro, small and medium enterprises in India
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In the turbulent Indian economy post liberalisation, the micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) sector is critical for inclusive growth. Having emphatically established itself as the backbone of our economy, by contributing 37.54% of our GDP and being a key driver of social and economic development, MSME sector is responsible for 45% of the total manufacturing output and 40% of the total exports of the country. In spite of these, this sector is vulnerable. Branding is an important instrument for sustainability of the MSME sector firms. The paper is an attempt to study two broad dimensions of MSME branding, namely, brand sustainability and brand development; and identify the parameters associated with it. The emerged factors relating to brand sustainability and brand development of the MSME sector in Indian context are fundamental to provide a new direction to the MSME sector firms of Indian origin on their quest for sustainability.
Journal: Int. J. of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Pages: 298-316
Issue: 3
Volume: 22
Year: 2018
Keywords: MSME sector; brand sustainability; brand development; Indian economy; entrepreneurship; SME; innovation management; India.
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Author-Name: Veronika Kurz
Author-X-Name-First: Veronika
Author-X-Name-Last: Kurz
Author-Name: Stefan Hüsig
Author-X-Name-First: Stefan
Author-X-Name-Last: Hüsig
Author-Name: Michael Dowling
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Dowling
Title: What drives different employee types of innovative behaviour? Development and test of an integrative model of employee driven innovation in German firms
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Innovation is typically attributed to certain groups of employees such as functional specialists, professionals, and R%D experts. The innovative potential of lower-level employees is often overlooked. With this study, we contribute to innovation research by analysing the innovative behaviour of ordinary employees compared to other kinds of employees from whom highly innovative behaviours are expected. We develop and test an integrative model of employee driven innovation consisting of different intra-organisational drivers and simultaneously control for personal characteristics. Our results show that the most important factor for influencing innovative behaviour is an appropriate job design that includes autonomy and innovativeness as job requirements. In addition, the personal factors of openness to new experiences and role breadth self-efficacy seem to be essential. Moreover, we found that the degree of innovative behaviour of ordinary employees is not significantly different from other groups of employees who are expected to focus on innovation activities.
Journal: Int. J. of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Pages: 397-426
Issue: 4/5
Volume: 22
Year: 2018
Keywords: innovative behaviour; employee driven innovation; EDI; job design; leadership; group; organisational factors.
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Author-Name: Carine Deslée
Author-X-Name-First: Carine
Author-X-Name-Last: Deslée
Author-Name: Aubépine Dahan
Author-X-Name-First: Aubépine
Author-X-Name-Last: Dahan
Title: Employee-driven innovation into practice: managing the tension between organisation and innovation
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This research empirically examines three cases of employee-driven innovation (EDI) to assess the tension it creates in a large bureaucratic organisation and discusses the nature and potential resolution of such tension. We contribute to the literature on the tension between the organisation and innovation by mobilising the concept of practice. We propose that EDI is inspired by everyday practice, which comes in the form of a situated, informal type of knowledge individuals widely and casually rely on to perform their daily tasks and professional duties. Driven by the search for improvement, practice not only reproduces existing knowledge but also creates new knowledge at all levels of the organisation. Thus, we investigate the link among innovation, specific positions in the organisation, and hierarchy. Specifically, how can a large bureaucratic organisation integrate a collective, diffuse, flowing-from-practice form of innovation?
Journal: Int. J. of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Pages: 323-337
Issue: 4/5
Volume: 22
Year: 2018
Keywords: employee-driven innovation; EDI; practice; innovation policy; bureaucratic organisation.
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Author-Name: Tea Lempiälä
Author-X-Name-First: Tea
Author-X-Name-Last: Lempiälä
Author-Name: Sari Yli-Kauhaluoma
Author-X-Name-First: Sari
Author-X-Name-Last: Yli-Kauhaluoma
Author-Name: Jaana Näsänen
Author-X-Name-First: Jaana
Author-X-Name-Last: Näsänen
Title: Similar structures, different interpretations: perceived possibilities for employee-driven innovation in two teams within an industrial organisation
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Our study discusses how two teams within a similar structural setting perceive their ability to engage in employee-driven innovation in a highly differing manner. We show how the way in which the team members perceived their role and relevance in the organisation influenced whether they experienced the organisational structures as rigid and unnegotiable or flexible and permitting of proactive innovation efforts. Drawing on literature on employee-driven innovation and idea championing, we contribute to the discussion of how employees can be supported to grow into idea champions (and hence to perceive opportunities, rather than limitations) in industrial organisations.
Journal: Int. J. of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Pages: 362-380
Issue: 4/5
Volume: 22
Year: 2018
Keywords: employee-driven innovation; idea championing; managerial support; case study; qualitative research; industrial organisations; innovation structures; intrapreneurship.
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Author-Name: Shih Yung Chou
Author-X-Name-First: Shih Yung
Author-X-Name-Last: Chou
Author-Name: Brandon Walker-Price
Author-X-Name-First: Brandon
Author-X-Name-Last: Walker-Price
Title: Fostering employee innovative behaviour through receipt of helping and voice behaviours from co-workers: the mediating roles of knowledge transfer and knowledge creation
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Given the impact of employee innovative behaviour on organisational success, a considerable amount of research attention has been paid to identifying determinants of employee innovative behaviour. However, relatively little is known about the impact of an employee's receipt of helping and voice behaviours exhibited by co-workers on the employee's innovative behaviour. Thus, drawing upon theories of workplace learning and knowledge management, we develop a conceptual model describing how receipt of helping behaviour and voice behaviour fosters employee innovative behaviour through formal, informal, and incidental learning. Additionally, we theoretically explore the mediating roles of knowledge transfer and knowledge creation. By doing so, our conceptual model provides important theoretical contributions to the literature. More importantly, our conceptual model offers crucial managerial insights into fostering employee innovative behaviour through effective organisational learning and knowledge management practices that encourage interpersonal helping and constructive criticism.
Journal: Int. J. of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Pages: 451-470
Issue: 4/5
Volume: 22
Year: 2018
Keywords: employee innovative behaviour; receipt of helping behaviour; receipt of voice behaviour; knowledge transfer; knowledge creation.
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Author-Name: Maja Marie Lotz
Author-X-Name-First: Maja Marie
Author-X-Name-Last: Lotz
Title: Organising routines and spaces for employee-driven innovation in global work arrangements
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Based on a longitudinal case study in a multinational corporation operating in the medical industry, this paper shows how a group of employees from different sites and from various organisational levels learnt and innovated new training practices as they enacted and made use of organisational routines to develop a global training system that supported the company's overall standardisation process. The paper identifies how, in particular, three interrelated routines appear to trigger moments of recursive learning and employee-driven innovation (EDI) among employees. These routines are: 1) an organisational form of global communities of practice; 2) a 'cookbook' representing a set of guidelines to ensure a common approach to the sharing of best practices; 3) a set of governance procedures to support continual improvements. They do so by allowing employees to: a) collectively engage in and work towards a common purpose; b) identify, document and share knowledge about the problems and solutions they encounter in regard to their work; c) continually improve work practices. The findings contribute to an understanding of how organisational structuring of EDI can be developed and managed, and highlight the importance of deliberately organising routines, spaces and moments to foster such dynamics.
Journal: Int. J. of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Pages: 338-361
Issue: 4/5
Volume: 22
Year: 2018
Keywords: employee-driven innovation; EDI; learning; routines; space; work practices; communities; organising; distributed innovation; global work contexts; multinational corporations; MNCs.
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Author-Name: Catharina Juul Kristensen
Author-X-Name-First: Catharina Juul
Author-X-Name-Last: Kristensen
Title: Bottom-linked innovation: collaboration between middle managers and employees
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Employee-driven innovation is gaining ground as a strategy for developing sustainable organisations in the public and private sector. This type of innovation is characterised by active employee participation, and the bottom-up perspective is often emphasised. This article explores an issue that has hitherto been paid little explicit attention, namely collaboration between middle managers and employees in innovation processes. In contrast to most studies, middle managers and employees are here both subjects of explicit investigation. The collaboration processes explored in this article are termed 'bottom-linked innovation'. The empirical analysis is based on an in-depth qualitative study of bottom-linked innovation in a public frontline institution in Denmark. By combining research on employee-driven innovation and middle management, the article offers new insights into such collaborative processes.
Journal: Int. J. of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Pages: 511-525
Issue: 4/5
Volume: 22
Year: 2018
Keywords: employee-driven innovation; bottom-linked innovation; manager-employee collaboration; middle management; frontline institutions; social institutions; public sector.
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Author-Name: Anke Buhl
Author-X-Name-First: Anke
Author-X-Name-Last: Buhl
Title: Do it yourself - a lean startup toolbox for employee-driven green product innovation
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Green product innovation (GPI) has become a key strategic issue for companies that aim at improving their environmental and economic performance. In order to harness their entire innovation potential, companies are well advised to integrate all employees into GPI processes. The concept of employee-driven innovation (EDI) recognises an underutilised potential of employees who are not formally assigned to innovation tasks. Still, there exists only limited research on tools and practices which employees can apply when engaging in GPI activities. With the aim of filling this void, this conceptual paper draws on the lean startup (LS) approach which applies lean thinking to entrepreneurship and innovation processes. LS principles complement GPI development since lean and green paradigms share the objective of resource efficiency and waste avoidance. This paper develops a process framework and toolbox which employees can use to validate and refine their GPI ideas before presenting them to their managers. Furthermore, it discusses to what extent the application of the presented LS framework enables employees to propose valuable GPI ideas.
Journal: Int. J. of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Pages: 526-544
Issue: 4/5
Volume: 22
Year: 2018
Keywords: employee-driven innovation; EDI; employee participation; green product innovation; GPI; lean startup; process framework; innovation toolbox.
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Author-Name: Alena Klapalová
Author-X-Name-First: Alena
Author-X-Name-Last: Klapalová
Title: Employee-driven innovation and reverse supply chain management
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Reverse flows, which emerge and move within supply chains, may represent a significant source of inspiration and ideas for innovations. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the current knowledge of reverse supply chain management within the context of employee-driven innovation theory. The empirical investigation addresses two main questions: 1) What is the position of employees in contrast to the other innovation-driving entities in firms as the initial idea carrier for potential innovation stemming from dealing with reverse flows?; 2) Which management characteristics distinguish firms with their 'ordinary' employees participating in the innovation processes from the perspective of reverse supply chain management? The findings are based on an analysis of data from 232 firms and show both the positive position of employees in driving the innovation effort and some differences which require further research and management practice.
Journal: Int. J. of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Pages: 489-510
Issue: 4/5
Volume: 22
Year: 2018
Keywords: innovation management; ideas and inspiration; employees; employee-driven innovation; EDI; reverse supply chain management; RSCM; reverse flows.
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Author-Name: Søren Voxted
Author-X-Name-First: Søren
Author-X-Name-Last: Voxted
Title: Conditions of implementation of employee-driven innovation
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This paper discusses the opportunities and barriers for the transfer of employees' ideas to implementation of new solutions in employee-driven innovation. The theoretical approach is the existing research not only on innovation transfer but also on the transfer of learning, knowledge and technology. Based on the results from an action research project aimed at training and involving shop-floor employees in employee-driven innovation, the paper identifies five factors that have been crucial to the process of transfer from employees' ideas to new solutions in production. The paper discusses five factors for transfer compared with existing literature and knowledge on employee-driven innovation.
Journal: Int. J. of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Pages: 471-488
Issue: 4/5
Volume: 22
Year: 2018
Keywords: employee-driven innovation; transfer; action research; employee participation; adult education; blue-collar workers.
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Author-Name: Henrik Sorensen
Author-X-Name-First: Henrik
Author-X-Name-Last: Sorensen
Author-Name: Lene Faber Ussing
Author-X-Name-First: Lene Faber
Author-X-Name-Last: Ussing
Author-Name: Søren Wandahl
Author-X-Name-First: Søren
Author-X-Name-Last: Wandahl
Author-Name: Randi M. Christensen
Author-X-Name-First: Randi M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Christensen
Title: Key mechanisms for employee-driven innovation in governmental client organisations
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In order to ensure that knowledge and ideas are transformed into innovative contributions, a systematic approach is important. The aim of this research was to identify the specific mechanisms that are key to implementing an innovation process model when conducting employee-driven innovation in a governmental client organisation. The methodological approach was an exploratory case study of a governmental client organisation within the Danish construction industry. The units of analysis were groups of employees and managers within the case organisation. The primary mechanisms identified were the mechanisms of organisational trust, innovation safety, organisational practices, cultural settings and the recognition and rewards structure to motivate employees. The decision-making procedures should be transparent especially to the idea-owners and the employees involved, and the implementation and putting into practice should be prioritised phases in the innovation process.
Journal: Int. J. of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Pages: 427-450
Issue: 4/5
Volume: 22
Year: 2018
Keywords: employee driven innovation; innovation mechanisms; innovation process; employee motivation; idea generation; governmental organisations; case study; construction industry; organisational practices; cultural settings.
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Author-Name: Marie Aakjær
Author-X-Name-First: Marie
Author-X-Name-Last: Aakjær
Title: Co-design in the prison service: a learning perspective on employee-driven innovation
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This article presents a case of how co-design approaches are used as a means to facilitate employees' learning and innovation. Despite a growing interest in co-design and the effects of engaging citizens (or users) in public service innovation, far too little attention has been paid to the potential influence and learning dynamics of: 1) inclusion of user perspectives; 2) of using co-design approaches on employees' practice, learning, and innovation. Through the theoretical lens of 'boundary encounters', this article offers a learning perspective on the influence of co-design approaches on employee-driven innovation. It reports the findings from an exploratory case study in a prison context. The analysis shows that including user perspectives creates strange perspectives on familiar routines, and that reflective and transformative learning dynamics emerge in sequences of experience prototypes and storytelling. It is argued that co-design approaches hold potential for employees to reframe meaning and innovate practice, and can enhance individual and organisational learning.
Journal: Int. J. of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Pages: 381-396
Issue: 4/5
Volume: 22
Year: 2018
Keywords: employee-driven innovation; workplace learning; co-design; co-creation; prison service; boundary encounters.
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Author-Name: Angelika Löfgren
Author-X-Name-First: Angelika
Author-X-Name-Last: Löfgren
Title: Potential international competitiveness and co-innovation of technology-based international SMEs
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This paper contributes to an integrated entrepreneurship perspective in the cross-section of research on networks, innovation and internationalisation. The study promotes a conceptualisation based on international competitiveness literature in order to further such an integrated entrepreneurship perspective. By focusing on <i>potential international network competitiveness</i>, delineated as network-based sources of international competitiveness, the sustainability of international entrepreneurial firms is emphasised. The paper specifically draws attention to the relationship between network-based sources of international competitiveness and international technology development. Three hypotheses are developed and tested on 142 technology-based internationalising SMEs by means of linear structural relations (LISREL). The results indicate that there are direct- and indirect positive effects between network-based sources of international competitiveness and international technology development.
Journal: Int. J. of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Pages: 597-614
Issue: 6
Volume: 22
Year: 2018
Keywords: entrepreneurship; innovation; international; competitiveness; technology development; networks; SMEs; LISREL; potential international competitiveness; international entrepreneurship; co-innovation.
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Author-Name: Jean-Paul Peronard
Author-X-Name-First: Jean-Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Peronard
Author-Name: Jacob Brix
Author-X-Name-First: Jacob
Author-X-Name-Last: Brix
Title: Sensemaking in collaborative networks: creating and balancing activities in open business models
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The purpose of the study is to advance research on open business models as activity systems (Zott and Amit, 2010) in collaborative networks. We utilise Bradley's (1995) theory of exchange behaviour to discuss how new joint activities can be explored and how existing activities can be redesigned to strengthen collaboration between companies. To enable this discussion, we delve into the sensemaking literature and theory from loosely coupled systems. Our discussion leads to the development of the balanced activity system (BAS) model. The paper's key contribution is the prescriptive BAS model, which can be used strategically in collaborative networks to redesign or create new joint activities.
Journal: Int. J. of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Pages: 545-561
Issue: 6
Volume: 22
Year: 2018
Keywords: collaborative networks; open business models; sensemaking; business development; innovation management.
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Author-Name: Angelo Presenza
Author-X-Name-First: Angelo
Author-X-Name-Last: Presenza
Author-Name: Tindara Abbate
Author-X-Name-First: Tindara
Author-X-Name-Last: Abbate
Author-Name: Alfonso Vargas-Sánchez
Author-X-Name-First: Alfonso
Author-X-Name-Last: Vargas-Sánchez
Author-Name: Tina Harrison
Author-X-Name-First: Tina
Author-X-Name-Last: Harrison
Title: Creativity and innovation: the case of haute cuisine
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This study focuses on creativity and innovation in the gastronomy sector, where both concepts have become increasingly relevant determinants of success, business performance and longer-term survival. Specifically, it investigates the key factors that effectively stimulate the actions and behaviours leading to a continuous flow of novel and useful ideas that can be turned into innovations. To achieve this, an inductive methodology was used, based on the study of a single but significant case, using the semi-structured in-depth interview. The results show that new ideas are mainly generated directly by the chef; hence individual features play a leading role, together with endless experimentation. They furthermore underline that the innovation process is mainly influenced by a trial-and-error approach, which is possible only if the chef has a genuine entrepreneurial spirit. These results hold several relevant theoretical and practical implications.
Journal: Int. J. of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Pages: 562-577
Issue: 6
Volume: 22
Year: 2018
Keywords: creativity; innovation; entrepreneurship; gastronomy; restaurant; haute cuisine; chefs; success factors; business performance; case study; Italy.
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Author-Name: Gianluca Elia
Author-X-Name-First: Gianluca
Author-X-Name-Last: Elia
Author-Name: Alessandro Margherita
Author-X-Name-First: Alessandro
Author-X-Name-Last: Margherita
Author-Name: Fabrizio Quarta
Author-X-Name-First: Fabrizio
Author-X-Name-Last: Quarta
Author-Name: Pasquale Stefanizzi
Author-X-Name-First: Pasquale
Author-X-Name-Last: Stefanizzi
Title: The use of equity crowdfunding to launch innovative ventures: insights from three cases
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Crowdfunding is the process of collecting money from a large audience to launch an entrepreneurial project. It is mostly based on the use of internet to gather financial resources and leverage the 'wisdom of crowds' to pre-validate the potential of a business idea. In particular, equity crowdfunding allows broad groups of investors to fund new companies in return for ownership of a piece of the business. It is thus an interesting option for supporting the launch of innovative companies, although its adoption is still limited by a number of complexities and an incomplete awareness of potential benefits. In such vein, this paper delineates the status of equity crowdfunding in Italy and presents the analysis of three successful equity crowdfunding campaigns, with the purpose to collect a set of lessons learned and provide useful insights for entrepreneurs and investors as well.
Journal: Int. J. of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Pages: 578-596
Issue: 6
Volume: 22
Year: 2018
Keywords: case study; crowdfunding; crowdsourcing; entrepreneur; equity; investor; Italy; project; startup; technology entrepreneurship.
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Author-Name: Michael Sheriff
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Sheriff
Author-Name: Moreno Muffatto
Author-X-Name-First: Moreno
Author-X-Name-Last: Muffatto
Title: High-tech entrepreneurial ecosystems: using a complex adaptive systems framework
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The entrepreneurship ecosystem concept has been examined by various scholars resulting in different definitions and the development of various frameworks. High-tech entrepreneurial ecosystems are special types that are closely linked to innovative, high growth firms. We argue that the logic of interpretation of high-tech entrepreneurial ecosystems is quite different from that of national entrepreneurial ecosystems. The latter are guided by national policies and follow mainly a top down approach. This paper posits that the emergence and development of high-tech entrepreneurial ecosystems follow mainly a bottom up approach. For this reason, we have used a complex adaptive systems framework to interpret high-tech entrepreneurial ecosystems. In addition, we have also examined the network effects in these ecosystems. Reflecting on these effects, we have highlighted the additional roles of agents such as universities and local governments in contributing to the success of high-tech ecosystems. Finally, we have developed propositions that could be transformed into testable hypothesis and suggested further research.
Journal: Int. J. of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Pages: 615-634
Issue: 6
Volume: 22
Year: 2018
Keywords: entrepreneurship; entrepreneurial ecosystems; high-tech; complex adaptive systems; CAS.
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