scholarly journals Effects of Regional Innovation Capability on the Green Technology Efficiency of China’s Manufacturing Industry: Evidence from Listed Companies

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (20) ◽  
pp. 5467
Author(s):  
Yu Fu ◽  
Agus Supriyadi ◽  
Tao Wang ◽  
Luwei Wang ◽  
Giuseppe T. Cirella
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
Innovation Capability ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Manufacturing Efficiency ◽  
Made In China

The purpose of the “Made in China 2025” strategy is to enhance the innovation capabilities of the local manufacturing industry and achieve green and sustainable development. The role of innovation in the development of manufacturing is a hotspot in academic research, though only a few studies have analyzed the interaction between green technology manufacturing efficiency and its external innovation capabilities. This study used the 2011–2017 Chinese A-share listed manufacturing companies as samples to discuss whether regional innovation capabilities can promote the improvement of green technology manufacturing efficiency. The results showed that a significant spatial correlation between regional innovation capability and green technology manufacturing efficiency was prevalent within spatial heterogeneous bounds. In addition, regional innovation capability directly promoted the effective manufacturing of green technology efficiency, which was strongest in the eastern region of the country. Regional innovation capabilities also had a positive effect on human capital and government revenue, thereby further enhancing the green technology efficiency of manufacturing through the intermediary effect. Based on the above conclusions, some policy recommendations are put forward to facilitate the improvement of China’s regional innovation capabilities in terms of green technology efficiency in manufacturing.

scholarly journals Role of Servitization, Digitalization, and Innovation Performance in Manufacturing Enterprises

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
pp. 9878
Author(s):  
Lei Shen ◽  
Cong Sun ◽  
Muhammad Ali
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Business Innovation ◽  
Manufacturing Enterprises ◽  
Enterprise Innovation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The structure of the manufacturing industry has forced manufacturing companies to understand the importance of digitalization and servitization transformation, in terms of production and R&D. In this study, we examine the relationship between servitization, digitization, and enterprise innovation performance through the lens of dynamic capabilities within enterprises. We also discuss the impact of the transformation servitization strategy on business innovation, and the mechanisms by which it impacts business innovation performance. The study’s findings indicate that servitization significantly contributes to innovation performance, and digitalization acts as a mediating mechanism between the proposed relationships. Thus, this article argues for the integration and growth of servitization and digitization.

scholarly journals INNOVATION, PROCESS CAPITAL AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: MEDIATING ROLE OF MARKETING PERFORMANCE (EVIDENCE FROM MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY IN INDONESIA)

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 278-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bambang Tjahjadi ◽  
Hanna Miriam Shanty ◽  
Noorlailie Soewarno
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Marketing Performance ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose of the Study: This paper aims to investigate the mediating role of marketing performance on innovation-financial performance relationship as well as on process capital-financial performance relationship using the publicly listed manufacturing firms on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX). Methodology: This is a quantitative research employing marketing performance as the mediation variable. A mediation research model is constructed to test the hypotheses of this research using the Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling. A new data set is prepared which involves the publicly listed manufacturing companies on the IDX covering a period of thirteen years from 2005 to 2017. Main Findings: The results of this research provide the following empirical evidence. Firstly, marketing performance partially mediates the relationship between innovation and financial performance. Secondly, marketing performance fully mediates the relationship between process capital and financial performance. Conclusion: This study provides a better understanding of managers regarding the mechanism of how innovation affects financial performance via marketing performance as well as on the mechanism of how to process capital affects financial performance via marketing performance. Application/Implication: This study implies that managers need to continuously innovate, improve manufacturing processes, and enhance marketing management to achieve better financial performance.

scholarly journals The Relationship Between Employees’ Job Satisfaction and Organizational Culture in Korea’s Manufacturing Industry: Focusing on Online Training Participation as a Moderator

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Hae Na Kim
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Online Training ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Market Cultures ◽  
The Relationship

<p class="a">This study intends to address the relationship between job satisfaction of employees and organizational culture in Korea’s manufacturing industry. In particular, this research addresses the role of online training participation as a moderator for the relationship between organizational culture and job satisfaction. Principal component analysis and hierarchical regression analysis were applied using the Korean Human Capital Corporate Dataset. The result of this study indicates higher job satisfaction under Clan culture or Adhocracy and Market cultures. Also, online training participation can enhance employees' job satisfaction and online training participation has a moderating effect for Adhocracy and Market cultures and job satisfaction. Therefore, the manufacturing companies of Korea need to build Adhocracy and Market cultures and to encourage online training participation for employees' higher job satisfaction.</p>

scholarly journals The Emerging Contextual Effect of University Spin-offs and its Role in Spurring Innovation in Regional Area

2021 ◽  
pp. 37-56
Author(s):  
Danilo Boffa ◽  
Antonio Prencipe
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Contextual Effect ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Regional Area ◽  
Fundamental Process ◽  
Innovation And Entrepreneurship

Abstract The technology and knowledge transfer from university to industry has raised the attention of policy makers and practitioners as fundamental process in promoting the development of regional innovation and entrepreneurship. University Spin-Offs (USOs), firms established to commercialize the knowledge and technology outcomes of academic research, may constitutes an effective mechanism to improve the innovative dynamics in the regional area. The paper explores the assumption that USOs may partially determine the innovation of regions they are located. From a panel sample of 944 USOs placed in 20 Italian administrative regions, the findings remark that USOs (analysed as [1] number of USOs from each University and [2] patents activity of USOs) has a positive impact on the regional innovation in term of regional patent applications, while a weak role of USOs seems to emerge in term of regional expenditure in R&D. JEL classification numbers: O30, O32. Keywords: University Spin-Offs, Regional innovation, Entrepreneurial University, Italy.

Safety climate and employees' voluntary work behaviours: the moderating role of employees' voice

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 561-581
Author(s):  
Kwesi Amponsah-Tawiah ◽  
Akosua Konadu Boateng ◽  
Samuel Doku Tetteh
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Voluntary Work ◽  
Design Data ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Counterproductive Work Behaviour ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

PurposeThis study examined the relationship between safety climate and employees' voluntary work behaviours (i.e. organisational citizenship behaviour and counterproductive work behaviour). It also examined the moderating role of employees' voice on the relationship between safety climate and employees' voluntary work behaviours.Design/methodology/approachUsing the quantitative survey research design, data were collected from 220 respondents from three manufacturing companies in Accra, Ghana. Pearson's correlation test (r) and hierarchical multiple regression were used for data analysis.FindingsResults showed that safety climate plays a significant role in predicting employees' voluntary work behaviours. Also, employees' voice was found to moderate the relationship between safety climate and organisational citizenship behaviour but does not moderate the relationship between safety climate and counterproductive work behaviour.Research limitations/implicationsData was collected from manufacturing firms in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana; hence, the findings may be limited to just the manufacturing industry in the Ghanaian setting.Originality/valueThis paper positions safety climate as a catalyst for positive voluntary work behaviours in the workplace and an antidote to negative workplace behaviours. It also highlights the role of employees' voice in enhancing positive voluntary workplace behaviours of employees.

scholarly journals A Study of Regional-Level Location Factors of Car Manufacturing Companies in the EU

2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (S2) ◽  
pp. 13-39
Author(s):  
Ottó Csíki ◽  
Réka Horváth ◽  
Levente Szász
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Location Factors ◽  
Regional Competitiveness ◽  
Location Factor ◽  
Automotive Market ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Regional Factors ◽  
The Eu

The paper aims to explore how factors of regional competitiveness are associated with the location of car manufacturing companies in the EU. Although the European automotive market can be characterized by an intense dynamics in terms of location choices, literature offers little empirical guidance on how regional factors influence the location of car manufacturers in the EU. This paper aims to fill this gap by combining regional competitiveness data on 276 EU regions with the actual location of all 269 production units of car manufacturing companies currently present in the EU. Logistic regression is used to discover significant relationships, while the comparative analysis of clusters of regions is meant to offer a more detailed understanding of the role of different location factors. Results of the analysis show that the most influential location factor is related to infrastructural development, but other competitiveness factors, such as regional innovation capabilities or labour market efficiency, might also play an important role.

Greening of regional industrial paths and the role of sectoral characteristics: A study of the maritime and petroleum sectors in an Arctic region

2021 ◽  
pp. 096977642110384
Author(s):  
Trond Nilsen ◽  
Rune Njøs
Keyword(s):  
Power Supply ◽  
Arctic Region ◽  
Innovation Systems ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Regional Innovation Systems ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Northern Norway ◽  
Sectoral Innovation Systems

Recent studies on regional industrial path development call for new perspectives and studies of how a region’s endogenous and exogenous processes (e.g. networks, capital, knowledge) influence its industries, and more recently, the greening of those industries. To this end, recent research has focused on increasing our understanding of the roles of firm and non-firm agency and multi-scalar dynamics (e.g. value chains, national and global regulations). However, the literature has naturally tended to focus more on territorial dynamics (e.g. agglomerations, clusters, regional innovation systems) than on the role of sectoral characteristics to explain regional industrial path development and regional industry greening. To address this, we have developed a framework built on the sectoral innovation systems literature to provide a better explanation of the role of sectoral characteristics in regional industrial path development. We argue herein that the greening of regional industrial paths can be strongly influenced by sectoral characteristics (e.g. standards, markets, technological solutions, laws, regulations), and not merely by territorial characteristics. Our theory-based argument is practically exemplified by an investigation of how a new green technology, onshore power supply, has influenced the greening of two industries (i.e. maritime and petroleum) in the rural Arctic region of northern Norway.

scholarly journals The Emerging Contextual Effect of University Spin-offs and its Role in Spurring Innovation in Regional Area

2021 ◽  
pp. 37-56
Author(s):  
Danilo Boffa ◽  
Antonio Prencipe
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Contextual Effect ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Regional Area ◽  
Fundamental Process ◽  
Innovation And Entrepreneurship

Abstract The technology and knowledge transfer from university to industry has raised the attention of policy makers and practitioners as fundamental process in promoting the development of regional innovation and entrepreneurship. University Spin-Offs (USOs), firms established to commercialize the knowledge and tech-nology outcomes of academic research, may constitutes an effective mechanism to improve the innovative dynamics in the regional area. The paper explores the as-sumption that USOs may partially determine the innovation of regions they are located. From a panel sample of 944 USOs placed in 20 Italian administrative re-gions, the findings remark that USOs (analysed as [1] number of USOs from each University and [2] patents activity of USOs) has a positive impact on the regional innovation in term of regional patent applications, while a weak role of USOs seems to emerge in term of regional expenditure in R&D. JEL classification numbers: O30, O32. Keywords: University Spin-Offs, Regional innovation, Entrepreneurial University, Italy.

scholarly journals Who pays attention to the moral aspects? Role of organizational justice and moral attentiveness in leveraging ethical behavior

2022 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hussam Al Halbusi
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Justice ◽  
Ethical Behavior ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Moral Attentiveness

Purpose Although there have been several studies on corporate justice and employee ethical behavior, little is known about the conditions in which this link develops. The purpose of this study is to investigate the direct effect of organizational justice and moral attentiveness toward employee ethical behavior. Importantly, this study also considers the moderating role of moral attentiveness on the links between organizational justice and employee ethical behavior. Design/methodology/approach The data was collected from 350 employees who were assessed directly to supervisors in 12 manufacturing companies placed in Malaysia, operated full-time, and had regular interaction with their direct supervisors. In particular, using two-wave survey data obtained from 270 employees working in the manufacturing industry in Malaysia. Findings Results showed that organizational justice and moral attentiveness positively impact the employee ethical behavior as predicted. New to the literature, findings disclose that moral attentiveness strengthens this relationship. Importantly, the positive impact of organizational justice is sharply positive under high than low moral attentive employees and ceases to be significant among low morally attentive personnel. Research limitations/implications This research focused on the notion of ethics and how important it is for society. The principles, norms and ideals that guide an individual’s behavior are referred to as ethics. Because the authors need to be treated with dignity as human beings, ethical behavior is essential in society. Practical implications The findings of this study send a clear signal to managers that “failing to ensure that their employees perceive organizational justice” may undermine every effort made by them to improve their organizations’ ethical quality. Importantly, the findings emphasize the role of moral attentiveness in improving the ethical behavior of employees both directly and by strengthening the effectiveness of organizational justice to impact such a behavior positively. So, given the advantages of moral attentiveness in terms of improving employee ethical conduct, businesses should make every effort to hire and choose people who meet this requirement because it is not easy to spot this personality trait. Human resource managers may assess candidates’ moral attentiveness using a range of methods such as group debate, an in-basket exercise, organized interviews and business games that concentrate on specific ethical concerns. Social implications This research focused on the notion of ethics and how important it is for society. The principles, norms and ideals that guide an individual’s behavior are referred to as ethics. Because the authors need to be treated with dignity as human beings, ethical behavior is essential in society. Originality/value The results of this study demonstrate how the eye is put to attain organizational moral excellence; the outcomes have shown that acutely attentive employees to the moral cues offered by the organization is vital.

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