scholarly journals Fashion Retail Innovation

2017 ◽  
pp. 233-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torben Tambo
Keyword(s):  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Process Innovation ◽  
Maturity Models ◽  
Technology And Innovation ◽  
Management Of Technology ◽  
Expected Outcome ◽  
Fashion Retail

Fashion retail is recognised for its strong capabilities in product innovation, while also having the potential to improve the governance of technology-based process innovation. This chapter proposes a model perspective in management of technology and innovation, including special requirements of fashion retailing. In particular, this chapter discusses the context of fashion retailing understood as product and brand-based characteristics. A case study-based methodology is then used to guide an analysis of antecedents and (expected) outcome of fashion retail innovation. IT-based innovation dominates, but innovation is suggested to include a broader scope of technologies. Contrary to innovation maturity models, this chapter proposes to consider innovation as a continuous refinement between dynamic capabilities and absorptive capacity where technologies must be adapted to the special characteristics of the fashion retail industry.

Fashion Retail Innovation

2015 ◽  
pp. 269-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torben Tambo
Keyword(s):  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Process Innovation ◽  
Maturity Models ◽  
Technology And Innovation ◽  
Management Of Technology ◽  
Expected Outcome ◽  
Fashion Retail

Fashion retail is recognised for its strong capabilities in product innovation, while also having the potential to improve the governance of technology-based process innovation. This chapter proposes a model perspective in management of technology and innovation, including special requirements of fashion retailing. In particular, this chapter discusses the context of fashion retailing understood as product and brand-based characteristics. A case study-based methodology is then used to guide an analysis of antecedents and (expected) outcome of fashion retail innovation. IT-based innovation dominates, but innovation is suggested to include a broader scope of technologies. Contrary to innovation maturity models, this chapter proposes to consider innovation as a continuous refinement between dynamic capabilities and absorptive capacity where technologies must be adapted to the special characteristics of the fashion retail industry.

scholarly journals Toward a Value-Sensitive Absorptive Capacity Framework: Navigating Intervalue and Intravalue Conflicts to Answer the Societal Call for Health

2019 ◽  
pp. 000765031987610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jilde Garst ◽  
Vincent Blok ◽  
Oana Branzei ◽  
Léon Jansen ◽  
Onno S. W. F. Omta
Keyword(s):  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Moral Legitimacy ◽  
Societal Values ◽  
A Value

The majority of studies on absorptive capacity (AC) underscore the importance of absorbing technological knowledge from other firms to create economic value. However, to preserve moral legitimacy and create social value, firms must also discern and adapt to (shifts in) societal values. A comparative case study of eight firms in the food industry reveals how organizations prioritize and operationalize the societal value health in product innovation while navigating inter- and intravalue conflicts. The value-sensitive framework induced in this article extends AC by explaining how technically savvy, economic value–creating firms diverge in their receptivity, articulation, and reflexivity of societal values.

Empirically Testing Factors Increasing Manufacturing Product Innovation Success

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (02) ◽  
pp. 1850019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tor Guimaraes ◽  
Ketan Paranjape ◽  
Mike Cornick ◽  
Curtis P. Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
New Product ◽  
Competitive Intelligence ◽  
Strategic Leadership ◽  
Management Of Technology ◽  
Proposed Model

Purpose: Important determinants of new product development success fall into five main areas encompassing strategic leadership, competitive intelligence, management of technology, specific characteristics of the company's innovation process, and the company's absorptive capacity to use available knowledge to produce and commercialize new products. Unfortunately the existing knowledge on each of these five areas is not being shared by researchers in the other areas, thus the models are focused on the particular research area. This study tests these constructs as a set of determinants of product innovation success. Design/methodology/approach: A field test using a mailed questionnaire to collect a relatively large sample of manufacturing companies has been used to test the proposed model. To eliminate possible multicollinearity among the independent variables, a multivariate regression analysis was used. Findings: The results provide clear evidence about the importance of competitive intelligence, strategic leadership, competitive intelligence, management of technology, specific characteristics of the company's innovation process, and company absorptive capacity with company success in new product development. Research limitation/implications: Despite the relatively broad scope of the proposed model, other factors may also be important and should be included in future studies. Practical implications: The items used for measuring the main constructs provide further and more specific insights into how managers should go about developing these areas within their organizations. Originality/value: While the study is grounded in the literature of what until now have been five separate areas of knowledge, it proposed a unique integrated model for these areas important to new product development.

Intellectual capital, absorptive capacity and product innovation

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 474-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raquel Machado Engelman ◽  
Edi Madalena Fracasso ◽  
Serje Schmidt ◽  
Aurora Carneiro Zen
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Public Companies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Private And Public

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the influence of intellectual capital on a firm’s absorptive capacity (ACAP), and of ACAP on product innovation. The authors argue that intellectual capital and other sets of intangible assets are mobilized by firms through dynamic capabilities such as ACAP. Product innovation is one of the results of this process. Design/methodology/approach A quantitative study was conducted, including 500 firms of different sizes, industries and technological intensities located in southern Brazil. The validity of constructs and the theoretical model were confirmed by structural equation modeling. Findings The authors found that intellectual capital does influence ACAP, albeit differently on each of ACAP’s dimensions. Acquisition, assimilation and exploitation of knowledge are more decisively influenced by structural capital, followed by human capital. The ability of transformation of knowledge is evenly influenced by structural and human capital, and more moderately so by social capital. The results also showed that ACAP influences product innovation, but each of its dimensions demonstrated a different impact. Practical implications This study helps practitioners to identify the development of a firm’s intangible resources and its influences on product innovation. This characterization can serve as a benchmark for managers or private and public companies to define strategies and policies to stimulate innovation. Originality/value Few studies present a theoretical discussion about the relationship between a firm’s resources and ACAP’s dimensions in broad empirical contexts or in emerging countries.

scholarly journals Toward Developing a Framework for Conducting Case Study Research

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 160940691881795 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiva Ebneyamini ◽  
Mohammad Reza Sadeghi Moghadam
Keyword(s):  
General Structure ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Study Research ◽  
Technology And Innovation ◽  
Management Of Technology ◽  
Analytical Perspective ◽  
Comprehensive Framework ◽  
Theoretical Issues

This article reviews the use of case study research for both practical and theoretical issues especially in management field with the emphasis on management of technology and innovation. Many researchers commented on the methodological issues of the case study research from their point of view thus, presenting a comprehensive framework was missing. We try representing a general framework with methodological and analytical perspective to design, develop, and conduct case study research. To test the coverage of our framework, we have analyzed articles in three major journals related to the management of technology and innovation to approve our framework. This study represents a general structure to guide, design, and fulfill a case study research with levels and steps necessary for researchers to use in their research.

THE IMPACT OF THE HETEROGENEITY OF EMPLOYEES’ QUALIFICATIONS ON FIRM-LEVEL INNOVATION: EVIDENCE FROM NIGERIAN FIRMS

2020 ◽  
pp. 2150011
Author(s):  
STEPHEN KEHINDE MEDASE
Keyword(s):  
Product Innovation ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Process Innovation ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Recursive Bivariate Probit ◽  
Product And Process Innovation ◽  
Service Sectors ◽  
Product And Process ◽  
The Impact

The capacity to generate knowledge and disseminate it in a firm is considered a primary strategic competence to attaining competitive gain. Knowledge literature reveals how relevant it is to increase interest in recognising and managing knowledge inherent in workforces and other firms’ dynamic capabilities that allow them to benefit from available knowledge within the milieu. In recognising the importance of employees’ baggage of knowledge, this study uses the Nigerian Innovation Survey for two waves, 2008 and 2010 of 1359 repeated observations of firms in the manufacturing and service sectors to examine the interplay of firms’ dynamic capabilities and innovation optimisation. It uses a recursive bivariate probit and a Tobit model for the estimations. Evidence shows that PhD, BSc, and Diploma associate positively and significantly with the ability of the firms to introduce product innovation. On the moderating estimations, there are mixed results regarding the blend of employees’ qualifications, training and internal R&D. Based on this, while the share of the highly educated workforce supports the introduction of product innovation, it does not, however, substantially increase the probability of firm-level innovativeness regarding process innovation. Although the blend of BSc and HND with R&D supports the propensity to introduce process innovation, it results in a decline with Diploma and R&D. The implication of the results offers management some investment choices on the initiation of formal training and the management of internal R&D through employees’ expertise. This study contributes to the existing literature on the relevance of employees’ different degrees being reinforced by training and internal R&D being boosted by employees’ qualifications in supporting the development of product and process innovation.

scholarly journals Social Capital and Sustainable Innovation in Small Businesses: Investigating the Role of Absorptive Capacity, Marketing Capability and Organizational Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3759 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lu Xin ◽  
Fangcheng Tang ◽  
Shuwei Zhang ◽  
Zhen Pan
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
New Product ◽  
Marketing Capability ◽  
Explorative Learning

Facing resource constraints and fierce competition, it is relatively difficult for small firms to achieve product innovation to gain sustainable development independently. Previous studies have explored the positive relationship between social capital and product innovation, yet there is still a lack of a comprehensive understanding of the underlying mechanism and the boundary conditions. Drawing upon the dynamic capabilities framework, we expect that absorptive capacity and marketing capability will mediate the relationship between social capital and new product development. Moreover, since product innovation is considered a process of learning, we also examine the moderating effects of explorative learning, and exploitative learning within moderated mediation models. Employing a sample of 221 small firms based in China, we find that social capital is indeed positively associated with new product development and is simultaneously fully mediated by absorptive capacity and marketing capability. Furthermore, the impact of absorptive capacity on new product development is amplified when a condition of explorative learning exists. This study, therefore, advances the current understanding on the predictors of innovation and enriches the dynamic capabilities theory, and also provides empirical support for the sustainable development of small firms.

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