European Journal of Innovation Management: Volume 26 Issue 4

Identifying institutional barriers when implementing new technologies in the healthcare industry

Ignat Kulkov, Anastasia Tsvetkova, Maria Ivanova-Gongne

Virtual and augmented reality solutions in medicine are generally applied in communication, training, simulation and therapy. However, like most new digital developments, these…

The impact of user innovator mindset on feedback volume, feedback diversity and new product development performance

Jiajun Wu, Matthew O'Hern, Jun Ye

This study examines the influence of different user innovator mindsets on new product development (NPD) performance. The current research explores the relative impact of a…

How specific investments influence NPD performance: exploring the roles of supplier involvement and IT implementation

Aihua Wu

The impact of specific investments to performance has mixed arguments. This paper aims to clarify how and under what conditions specific investments made by manufacturer tailored…

She-E-Os and innovation: do female CEOs influence firm innovation?

Hafiz Mustansar Javaid, Qurat Ul Ain, Antonio Renzi

This paper empirically investigates whether female CEOs (She-E-Os) have an effect on firm innovation among Chinese listed firms based on patent data. This study also delved…

University business idea incubation and stakeholders' engagement: closing the gap between theory and practice

Giustina Secundo, Gioconda Mele, Giuseppina Passiante, Francesco Albergo

The paper aims to contributes on the debates about University Idea Incubation by investigating the role and the engagement of different University's stakeholders in the process of…

Supplier change, market competition and enterprise innovation

Yafei Zu, Ruonan Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to study enterprise innovation in the perspective of external supplier relationship. On this purpose, this paper examines the impact of supplier…

Patent management: the prominent role of strategy and organization

Lara Agostini, Anna Nosella, Marcus Holgersson

The purpose of this article is twofold; to verify the existence of different profiles of firms based on the level of sophistication of their patent management core processes and…

Stimulating frugal innovation via information technology resources, knowledge sources and market turbulence: a mediation-moderation approach

Muhammad Usman Shehzad, Jianhua Zhang, Phong Ba Le, Khalid Jamil, Ziao Cao

Given the importance of frugal innovation for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in developing countries, this study aims to explore the role of IT resources on frugal…

Distributed innovation, digital entrepreneurial opportunity, IT-enabled capabilities, and enterprises' digital innovation performance: a moderated mediating model

Hongjuan Tang, Qi Yao, Francis Boadu, Yu Xie

As an important driving factor of digital innovation, distributed innovation has received extensive attention from academia and business circles in recent years. However, extant…

The influence of organisational justice and ethical leadership on employees’ innovation behaviour

Pinghao Ye, Liqiong Liu, Joseph Tan

This paper aims to explore the influence of organisational justice (including distributional justice, procedural justice and interactional justice) and ethical leadership on…

Survival of the fittest: the multiple paths of entrepreneurial leadership driving adaptive innovation in uncertain environment

Qin Lin, Lingfeng Yi

This study aims to investigate the multiple influence paths or underlying mechanisms of entrepreneurial leadership (EL) on adaptive innovation from the perspectives of…

Does green process innovation affect a firm's financial risk? The moderating role of slack resources and competitive intensity

Adeel Tariq, Sadaf Ehsan, Yuosre F. Badir, Mumtaz Ali Memon, Muhammad Saleem Ullah Khan Sumbal

Over the last two decades, corporations have increasingly adopted green innovation to lessen the unsuitable impact on the environment and gain competitive advantage at the same…