European Journal of Innovation Management: Volume 26 Issue 1

Does venture capital help to promote open innovation practice? Evidence from China

Rui Yi, Haojun Wang, Bei Lyu, Qinghua Xia

The study aims to empirically study the effect of venture capital on open innovation of China's enterprises.

Knowledge base, technology gap and technology development speed in technological catch-up: innovation choice for China's knowledge-intensive enterprises (KIEs)

Zhengyi Zhang, Jun Jin, Ting Wen, Zan Chen

With the fierce competition in a knowledge economy, knowledge-intensive enterprises (KIEs) make technological progress in their catching-up processes through implementing product…

The level matters: building capabilities for innovation and enterprise performance through customer involvement

Thomas Anning-Dorson

This paper aims to examine the quadratic relationship between customer involvement capability and performance, and innovation of small- and medium-scale service firms. The study…

How can open innovation contribute to circular economy adoption? Insights from a literature review

Gessica Mina Kim Jesus, Daniel Jugend

Despite the potential of open innovation (OI) to reduce barriers to the adoption of the circular economy (CE), little is known about the integration of the two themes and how OI…

How does ambidextrous leadership promote innovation in project-based construction companies? Through mediating role of knowledge-sharing and moderating role of innovativeness

Syed Arslan Haider, Muhammad Zubair, Shehnaz Tehseen, Shahid Iqbal, Mariam Sohail

Research on adopting leadership style like ambidextrous leadership to enhance employees' innovative work behavior (IWB) is in an initial stage. Moreover, employees need a high…

Innovative work behavior scale: development and validation of psychometric properties in higher education in the GCC countries

Alaa Eldin Abdel Hamid Ayoub, Soud Mohammad Almahamid, Luma F. Al Salah

The study aims to develop an innovative work behavior (IWB) scale for the faculty members and faculty leaders of universities in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries (GCC). This…

Change in factor endowment, technological innovation and export: evidence from China’s manufacturing sector

Abdul Rauf, Ying Ma, Abdul Jalil

While previous studies find innovation to be an essential driver of export growth, the existing literature has neglected the role of different dimensions of technological…

The impact of international interorganizational relationships on creativity: the local partner perspective in an emerging country

Yasmine Boughzala, Berangere Lauren Szostak

This paper aims to understand how international interorganizational relationships (IORs) impact the organizational creativity of a local partner in an emerging country, and how…

Fostering technological innovation through management and marketing innovation. The human and non-technological linkage

Edwin Alexander Henao-García, Raúl Armando Cardona Montoya

This paper aims to analyse the relationships between management innovation, marketing innovation, technological innovation and the personnel involved in science, technology and…

The dimensional linkage between public service motivation and innovative behavior in public sector institutions; the mediating role of psychological empowerment

Muhammad Asim Rafique, Yumei Hou, Muhammad Adnan Zahid Chudhery, Nida Gull, Syed Jameel Ahmed

Innovations are imperative for organizational growth and sustainability. This study focuses on the employees' innovative behavior, a source of organizational innovations, which…

Understanding employees' innovative work behavior through interactionist perspective: the effects of working style, supportive noncontrolling supervision and job complexity

Basheer M. Al-Ghazali

This study extends the actor–context interactionist model of individual innovation from the traditional synergetic pattern to a complementary one. The complementary perspective…

Your network is your net worth: political ties and innovation performance

Muhammad Farrukh, Ali Raza, Abdul Waheed

Based on the social network theory, this study investigates the impact of political ties on innovation performance. Besides, this study also tests a mediation role of absorptive…

The double-edged sword effect of social media usage on new product development performance: evidence from Chinese firms

Biao Sun, Yu Liu

Research on social media frequently analyze social media usage (SMU)'s positive consequences for organizations and individuals; however, recent innovation studies caution that SMU…