scholarly journals Implementing Open Innovation in Research and Technology Organisations: Approaches and Impact

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramon Uribe-Echeberria ◽  
Juan Ignacio Igartua ◽  
Rafael Lizarralde
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Knowledge Flows ◽  
Active Management ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Knowledge Stocks ◽  
Knowledge Stocks And Flows ◽  
Research Organisations ◽  
The Impact

Research and development organisations (RTOs) are at the heart of innovation systems. They help to connect innovation system actors to foster industrial innovation. Due to this intermediary role, they act as paradigmatic open innovation (OI) actors. In this context, RTOs need to balance their knowledge stocks and flows, while assuring their own innovation capabilities and positively impacting the innovation system they influence. Thus, RTOs need to develop collaboration approaches that support their own performance while increasing their capabilities and not threatening their competitive advantages derived from their knowledge stock. In this study we extend the OI research to research organisations analysing their OI approach and the impact on its own performance, developing a new framework for OI study in RTOs using a partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) approach. The research, based on a sample of Spanish RTOs, arises two substantive conclusions. First, an increased number of collaboration partners (collaboration breadth) and the use of a variety of OI practices have a strong impact on RTOs’ overall performance (scientific, transference, and economic results). Second, RTOs need to foster their aperture and promote an active management to benefit from collaborating partners, whereas managers should pay special attention to questions related to the protection and management of intellectual property when promoting the use of different OI practices. Both results also emphasise the importance of managing firms’ knowledge flows in the implementation of OI in RTOs.

In search of virtuous learning circles: absorptive capacity and its antecedents in the education sector

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Regina Lenart-Gansiniec ◽  
Wojciech Czakon ◽  
Massimiliano Matteo Pellegrini
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Prior Knowledge ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Knowledge Flows ◽  
Measurement Scale ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Measurement Scales ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Impact

Purpose This study aims to identify context-specific antecedents to schools’ absorptive capacity (AC) and to show how those can enact “a virtuous learning circle.” Design/methodology/approach The study uses a mixed method: an exploration based on semi-structured interviews with educational experts; the development of a measurement scale and a partial least squares structural equation modelling to test the impact of the antecedents. Findings The results yielded four empirically-grounded antecedents and their measurement scales, namely, prior knowledge, employees’ skills, educational projects and interactions with the environment (Studies one and two). All antecedents are significantly and positively related to AC processes (study three). Using the organizational learning theory perspective, the results have been interpreted as an AC “virtuous learning circle.” Practical implications With increasing pressures to adapt, a case of which was the COVID-19 pandemic, schools can greatly benefit from absorbing knowledge flows. This suggests the construction a favourable environment for AC. To this end, the individual (employees’ prior knowledge and skills), organizational (educational projects) and institutional level of managerial action (interactions with the environment) can be effective when create a recursive organizational learning circle. In addition, this study offers an expert-validated measurement scale for self-assessment of a school’s specific contingencies, and thus, for planning of punctual interventions to develop AC. Originality/value This study advances the existing body of knowledge management in the educational context by rigorously identifying and validating a scale for measuring the antecedents of AC and developing an interpretive approach to the AC “virtuous circle.”

scholarly journals An optimized model for open innovation success in manufacturing SMEs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amir Hakaki ◽  
Mohsen Shafiei Nikabadi ◽  
Mahnaz Ali Heidarloo
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Resource Constraints ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Research Institutions ◽  
Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm ◽  
Fuzzy Dematel ◽  
Cumulative Impact ◽  
The Impact

Given the fluctuations in markets and the financial and resource constraints of SMEs, innovation is one of the solutions for improving performance, gaining competitive advantage and increasing survival probability for these companies. The paper aims to determine the best ranking of effective factors in open innovation success in manufacturing SMEs. At the first stage, the most important factors investigated using structural equation modelling based on the opinion of 275 experts. Subsequently, the impact level of each factor on the others calculated by fuzzy DEMATEL among 12 specialists’ viewpoints. In the end, optimized ranking of studied factors obtained by Ant Colony Optimization algorithm. As a result, economic factors, suppliers, competitors, partners, firm’s strategy, firm’s structure, reward system, employees, IT support, organizational learning, universities, research institutions, and ecological issues hold the first to the thirteenth rank with the highest cumulative impact on open innovation success. Developing relations with universities and research institutions for improving innovation process is recommended to manufacturing SMEs. In addition, these companies should coordinate firm’s strategy as one of the most important open innovation success factors with partners to gain competitive advantages against competitors.

Open innovation antecedents and its consequences on commercialization performance in small and medium-sized enterprises

Kybernetes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Javad Asgari ◽  
Amir Zakery ◽  
Mir Saman Pishvaee
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Science Park ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Resource Search ◽  
Parametric Statistics ◽  
Cooperative Innovation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the impact of the factors affecting open innovation (OI) intensity, in terms of three components of cooperative innovation, resource search and external research and development (R&D), as well as the impact of OI intensity on commercialization performance in small and medium-sized enterprises. Design/methodology/approach The data obtained from the distributed questionnaire among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from Isfahan Science and Technology Town (ISTT) in Iran, was analyzed using inferential and parametric statistics to examine the research hypotheses. In this analysis, structural equation tests were used to confirm or reject the research hypotheses using Smart PLS software. Findings The results indicate that all three OI components influence commercialization in technology-based firms of ISTT, while the most important one is cooperative innovation. Among the factors affecting OI components, innovative incentives are the most effective one that increases both external R&D and cooperative innovation. Facilitators and limitations of open innovation are also affecting OI intensity, with lower priorities. Practical implications Science park managers and policymakers should lay the ground for enhancing the cooperation intensity among firms. Cooperation intensity is the most effective open innovation component to improve commercialization performance. Originality/value Open innovation antecedents and its consequence on commercialization performance have been investigated for the same time in SMEs of a science park.

The impact of knowledge flows on asset specificity from the perspective of open innovation

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Feihu Zheng ◽  
Hao Jiao ◽  
Junyi Gu ◽  
Hwy-Chang Moon ◽  
Wenyan Yin
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Weighted Least Squares ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Knowledge Flows ◽  
Asset Specificity ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Innovation Capacity ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Strong Control ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose This study aims to examine how different modes of knowledge flows affect the changes of asset specificity and how ownership control moderates the relationship between knowledge flows and asset specificity in the open innovation paradigm. Design/methodology/approach This paper selects information technology outsourcing as the research base. It uses the feasible weighted least squares modeling method for its analysis and has collected the data from 2,369 research and development contracts of multinational vendor firms in China. Findings The coupled and outbound knowledge flows have a direct and positive effect on asset specificity. Moreover, the results show that weak corporate control has significant moderating effects on the relationship between both coupled and outbound knowledge flows and asset specificity; the strong control positively moderates the relationship between outbound knowledge flows and asset specificity. Practical implications In open innovation, firms build a higher degree of asset specificity to maximize the efficiency of knowledge flows, which then helps them to enhance innovation capacity and market performance. Originality/value Preceding studies have tended to examine the influences of asset specificity as an independent variable in a closed innovation paradigm. Asset specificity is hence often left as the antecedent “black box.” This paper, however, opens the “black box” of asset specificity, which is set as a dependent variable, by investigating the influences of knowledge flows on the asset specificity in the context of open innovation. It also reinterprets the role of asset specificity by adopting the lens of open innovation theory.

scholarly journals The influence of Image and Service Value on Mobile Banking Loyalty

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 174-179
Author(s):  
Anabela Fragata
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation Model ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Mobile Banking ◽  
Banking Services ◽  
Service Value ◽  
Confirmatory Analysis ◽  
The Impact

This paper intends to empirically examine the impact of Image and Service Value on Mobile Banking Services Loyalty. The data was analysed by employing exploratory as well as confirmatory analysis and a Structural Equation Model was extracted from 120 Portuguese respondents. The results suggest that Image and Service Value are positively related with Mobile Banking Loyalty. We also found a strong impact of Image on the Perceived Service Value.

Effects of inter- and intra-organizational learning activities on SME innovation: the moderating role of environmental dynamism

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Seok-Young Oh ◽  
Sehwa Kim
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Organizational Innovation ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Electronics Industry ◽  
Knowledge Flows ◽  
Multiple Informants ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Knowledge Stocks

Purpose This study aims to investigate how the inter-organizational learning (inter-OL) of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) promote intra-organizational learnings (intra-OL) and how inter- and intra-OL jointly promote organizational innovation in the Korean electronics industry. This study also examines the moderating effect of organizational dynamism. Design/methodology/approach A unique theoretical model shows how inter-OL promotes organizational innovation through intra-OL, knowledge flows and stocks. Data was collected from 201 SMEs in the Korean electronics industry and analyzed by structural equation modeling. Findings The findings show that inter-OL directly and indirectly influences innovation. Inter-OL promotes both knowledge flows and stocks, but the only feedforward flows influence innovation through knowledge stocks while feedback flows directly influence innovation. Additionally, the study finds an indirect effect of inter-OL on knowledge stocks and a strong direct effect on innovation when dynamism is high. Intra-OL activities fully mediate between inter-OL and innovation when dynamism is low. Research limitations/implications This study uses single informants to measure all constructs. Future studies should use multiple informants. Practical implications This study shows that OL in SMEs is shaped by internal processes and external collaborations. Maintaining a connection with various external knowledge sources and creating collaborative opportunities to share learning experiences is critical to innovation. Originality/value This study is the first to empirically examine the relationship between inter- and intra-OL activities within a conceptual framework. The study provides a strategic view of how to facilitate OL activities considering the degree of organizational dynamism.

The environment-strategy-structure fit and performance of industrial servitized SMEs

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laure Ambroise ◽  
Isabelle Prim-Allaz ◽  
Christine Teyssier ◽  
Sophie Peillon
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Organizational Design ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the environment-strategy-structure fit in the context of industrial servitization and its impact on the profitability of manufacturing SMEs. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from face-to-face interviews with the CEOs of 184 French manufacturing SMEs. These primary data were complemented by the indicators extracted from a financial database to ensure objective measures of financial performance. Analyses were conducted by means of partial least squares structural equation modeling. Findings The research tests the impact of the organizational design (customer interface, service delivery system and service culture (SC)) on financial performance. It also tests the moderating effect on this relationship of servitization strategies adopted by the firm (added services (AS), activities reconfiguration (AR) and business model reconfiguration (BMR)) and the environment in which the firm is situated (industry dynamism, competitive intensity and industry munificence). Research limitations/implications This study considers the coalescence of the environment-strategy-structure to be a driver of firm performance in the context of industrial firms’ servitization. Three specific servitization strategies (AS, AR and BMR) are suggested based on the service offering’s impact on the customer’s activity chain or business model. Practical implications The research proposes some optimal organizational design depending on servitization strategy and environmental factors; for example, SC has a strong impact on financial performance when BMR is adopted. Originality/value This empirical study is based on an extended sample of 184 SMEs and provides quantitative support for the claim that good alignment between strategy and organizational design based on environmental factors increases profitability.

scholarly journals Changing Energy Supplier on the Market with a Strong Position of Incumbent Suppliers—Polish Example

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (13) ◽  
pp. 3933
Author(s):  
Dariusz Dudek ◽  
Marcin Lipowski ◽  
Ilona Bondos
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Perceived Price ◽  
New Energy ◽  
Strong Position ◽  
Multigroup Sem ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of the study is to identify factors affecting the intention to change an energy supplier. This is in a country, Poland, where competition in the energy market has been intensifying over several years, but incumbent suppliers still have an extremely strong position on the market, and the tendency to change an energy supplier is relatively low. The survey was conducted in 2020 on a sample of 1216 adults. The research results were used for a multigroup SEM (Structural Equation Modelling) analysis using AMOS 26. The main findings indicated a strong impact on a general image of a company, as well as the lack of importance of a green image of the current energy supplier. In the general research approach, there are no visible differences in the impact of the perceived price transparency on the intention to switch the supplier. However, taking into consideration two groups (a low energy bill vs. a high energy bill), some interesting differences are visible. In the markets with low consumers' intention to switch, the strong position of incumbent suppliers is due to their exceptionally strong image in these markets. Spending time on maintenance is the biggest disadvantage for new energy suppliers who, when entering the market, have to look for differentiators.

Comparative Modelling of the Social Processes of Leadership in Work Units

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Parry
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Active Management ◽  
Theory Method ◽  
Training Tool ◽  
Grounded Theory Method ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACTThis research tests the extent to which the social processes of leadership, as derived from the full grounded theory method, may be tapping constructs other than those measured by existing measures of transformational leadership. The impact on work unit outcomes of two measures of transformational leadership and the social processes of leadership scale (SPL) were tested. Comparative structural equation modelling was undertaken. It was found that, with one exception – ‘active management processes’, normally classified as transactional management – measures of transformational leadership are probably pre-existing measures of the social processes of leadership in organisations. The use of the grounded theory method to research leadership is supported. Hierarchy of Abstraction Modelling is useful as a training tool and as a representation of research findings.

scholarly journals CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND BRAND MANAGEMENT: EVIDENCE FROM CARROLL’S PYRAMID AND TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE APPROACHES

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 852-875
Author(s):  
Dalia Štreimikienė ◽  
Rizwan Raheem Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Brand Management ◽  
Brand Image ◽  
Triple Bottom Line ◽  
Corporate Image ◽  
Brand Awareness ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
The Impact

The objective of this research is to evacuate the relationship between CSR initiatives and organizational performance. Additionally, the undertaken research examines the impact of brand image and brand awareness as mediators and corporate image as the moderator between CSR initiatives and organizational performance. We employed a modified conceptual framework derived from the Triple bottom line and Carroll’s pyramid models. The data was analyzed through the structural equation model by using confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses and conditional process approach for examining the direct, mediating, and moderating hypothesized relationships. The undertaken study’s outcomes demonstrated that the ethical, philanthropic, and sustainable dimensions positively and significantly influence organizational performance. Similarly, the mediation analysis suggested that the brand image and brand awareness are the potent mediators in an association between ethical, philanthropic, and sustainable dimensions and organizational performance. Findings further demonstrated that corporate image as a moderator has strong impact between exogenous factors and organizational performance. The undertaken study has important theatrical and managerial implications that provide value additions for both researchers and industry practitioners.

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