This paper focuses on resource and structural factors to explore the relationship between organizational improvisation and innovation capability. Although the role of improvisation has attracted ...increasing academic attention in fast-changing environments, little is known about the conditions under which firms benefit from improvisation. This paper addresses this gap using an organizational learning perspective that explains the role of a firm's organizational structure and organizational resources for improvisation and innovation. A large-scale survey in China finds that firms vary in their levels of (I) centralization and formalization of decision making and (II) resource slack and investment irreversibility and that these factors moderate the relationship between improvisation and innovation capability in distinct ways. Consistent with our theorizing, improvisation enhances innovation capability when firms have a decentralized but formalized structure or pursue the dual goals of maximizing resource slack and minimizing investment irreversibility.
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•Slack resources and minimization of irreversible investment increase the efficiency of improvisation.•A decentralized but formalized firms' improvisation positively influences innovation capabilities.•Data from 146 high-tech firms in China are used to test hypotheses.
This study analyses the function of value co-creation in mediating the relationship between brand orientation, brand performance, and innovation capacities in China’s small and medium-sized ...enterprises (SMEs). Using the organization’s size differential characteristic, additional testing of these criteria across disaggregated SME levels is performed. The empirical examination of 240 enterprises in an emerging market setting was conducted using Structure Equation Modeling (SEM). According to the results of the moderation and mediation research, value co-creation and capabilities often displayed positive moderating effects across all organization sizes, but they are conditional and not invariant when disaggregated by enterprise size. The research reveals that business owners and managers must decide the most successful complements to their brand orientation efforts based on the appropriate combinations of business abilities for the size of their particular firms.
While data-driven innovation capabilities have received considerable attention from academics and practitioners, there is insufficient longitudinal evidence on how they might contribute to improved ...marketing agility and competitive advantage. In this study, we make a preliminary effort to address this gap by developing a model based on the dynamic capabilities view. We also explore the moderating effects of market turbulence on the link among marketing agility and competitive advantage. We used two-waves data (T = 677 and T+1 = 569) and the cross-lagged panel approach was utilised to analyse the longitudinal data. Our findings provide robust empirical evidence on the causal and predictive temporal impact of data driven innovation capabilities on marketing agility and competitive advantage. It also indicated that marketing agility mediates this relationship over time. Moreover, the analysis suggested that market turbulence reinforce the influence of marketing agility on competitive advantage. We provided significant implications for theory and practice.
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•We examined the link between data driven innovation capabilities and competitive advantage.•We explore the role of market turbulence on these relationships.•Quantitative research method and CLPM were used to analyse the data.•Data driven innovation capabilities are related to competitive advantage over time.•Marketing agility mediates these relationships.
The increasing use of social media and its ability to aid small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to target large audiences at once has triggered to transformation in how SMEs perform their routine ...operations. Research on social media usage and SME performance is comparatively novel and patchy; yet, researchers, managers, and policymakers have limited interest in investigating the construct specifically in developing countries. This study explores the relationships between social media usage and innovation capabilities to improve sustainable SME performance. This study grounded the theoretical model building on a resource-based view. An online questionnaire was administered to gather data and was further analyzed quantitatively. The proposed interlinks were assessed using a sample of 549 employees of SMEs using SmartPLS techniques. The results show that social media usage has a positive and significant direct influence on innovation capabilities and sustainable SMEs performance, and innovation capabilities also have a positive and significant direct impact on sustainable SME performance. In addition, findings reveal that social media usage can enhance sustainable SME performance when mediated by innovation capabilities and moderated by digital leadership. This study offers several theoretical and practical implications.
•The increasing use of social media's ability to lead SMEs to target large audiences has triggered to transformation in how SMEs perform their routine operations.•This study fills the limited interest in investigating the construct specifically in developing countries.•Social media usage can enhance sustainable SME performance when mediated by innovation capabilities and moderated by digital leadership.•This study offers several theoretical and practical implications for SMEs and relevant policy makers.
Purpose: The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between human capital and social capital on innovation capabilities mediated by absorptive capacities. The study was conducted on ...business in North Sulawesi Province, Indonesia managed by women entrepreneurs.
Theoretical framework: The human capital, social capital and absorptive capacities are expected to be the causal relationship model to influence the business innovation ability of women entrepreneurs.
Design/Methodology/Approach: The quantitative survey method was chosen to test the causal relationship established. This research was conducted in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. The 187 data collected were tested using PLS-SEM with the SmartPLS 3.29 application.
Findings: The results of this study indicate that absorptive capacities significantly directly influence innovation capabilities. Absorptive capacities also mediate the relationship between human capital and innovation capabilities of business managed by women entrepreneurs in North Sulawesi.
Research, practical & social implications: The study found the ability of business innovation managed by women entrepreneurs could develop if being supported by absorptive capacities. Absorptive capacities could become a significant mediating construct in the relationship between human capital and innovation capability due to the success of knowledge, abilities and skills to generate an innovation.
Originality/Value: The causal relationship between human capital, social capital and absorptive capacities as mediating variables is not widely discussed in the entrepreneurship literature, especially for women entrepreneurs. Therefore, this is considered as novelty offered in this research.
The study aimed to examine the influence of market orientation on SMEs’ performance with the mediating effect of supply chain agility and moderation of innovation capabilities. The data for the study ...were gathered from the manufacturing SMEs operating in major cities of Jordan. The questionnaire was distributed online to gather the maximum responses from managers of SMEs. The collected data were examined by using Smart Pls. The results highlighted that market orientation not only influences the SMEs’ performance, but it also helps them in developing supply chain agility.
As the key providers of eating-out experiences, food service establishments need to revisit their skill repertoire to continue achieving patronage and competitiveness. In this context, the role of ...chefs also becomes instrumental. Thus, examining chefs’ innovative practices, such as the uptake of technology or even the extent to which they consider traditional recipes as a source of innovation, could illuminate new innovative gastronomic pathways with positive implications for the food and beverage industry. Embracing the creative self-efficacy and open innovation literature, this study makes empirical and conceptual contributions in this area. In-depth interviews with 69 executive chefs in Australia and Vietnam revealed 11 aggregate dimensions, including chefs’ innovative sensibility, technology competency, and traditional recipe know-how. Building on the data analysis, a developed ‘innovative cooktop’ framework illustrates, for instance, that chefs ‘resynchronise’ or extend traditional recipes through innovative practices and processes. Key practical and conceptual implications will be discussed.
•Examines innovative practices and uptake of technology and tradition.•Takes a comparative approach, studying chefs operating in two nations.•Develops a chefs’ innovative cooktop framework.•Discusses practical and theoretical implications from the analysis/framework.•Considers the insights of open innovation and creative self-efficacy.
Purpose
Influenced by factors such as fluctuations in market supply and demand and the rapid development of new technologies, manufacturing companies are facing greater challenges to transform and ...upgrade. The existing relevant studies about sustainable innovation capabilities mostly focus on classification of innovation or from a static resource-based view and less on quantitative measurement from a dynamic perspective and inter-organizational relationships. This paper takes a dynamic capabilities and social capital theory, explore the concept and dimensions of sustainable innovation capabilities and then makes development of a new scale.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies to develop a measure of sustainable innovation capabilities in two studies. Grounded theory methodology is used to explore the concept definition and dimensions of sustainable innovation capabilities. Exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis are conducted to refine and validate the factor structure, and then the authors developed the sustainable innovation capabilities scale.
Findings
The results show that sustainable innovation capabilities composed of ideation capabilities, opportunity capture capabilities, agile learning, creative inheritance and networking capabilities. The sustainable innovation capabilities that firms should possess are reflected at the firm level and inter-organizational relationship level, and the culture-specific dimension of creative inheritance reflects the influence of national and organizational culture.
Originality/value
The research reveals the internal driving force of the manufacturer's sustainable innovation capabilities, as well as the role and uniqueness embodied in the specific culture, providing a new perspective for improving the manufacturer's sustainable innovation capabilities.
This paper conceptualizes psychological safety as an organizational level phenomenon, and proposes that an organizational climate for psychological safety is positively related to SMEs' innovation ...performance and innovation capabilities. These hypotheses are tested on data from Norwegian SMEs. The results demonstrate that psychological safety is positively associated with SMEs' innovation performance, and positively related to product-, process-, service-, and business model innovation capabilities. Furthermore, an organizational climate for psychological safety is particularly important for enhancing a firm’s radical innovative capability, while environmental dynamism is found to moderate the effect of psychological safety. The results support the relevance of psychological safety at the firm level of analysis.
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