Innovation in Small-Scale Retailing

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Quinn ◽  
Lynsey McKitterick ◽  
Rodney McAdam ◽  
Michael Brennan
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Business Development ◽  
Innovative Activity ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Business Innovation ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
Conceptual Paper

For small retailers facing significant challenges it can be argued that, in light of their restricted resources, innovation is critical for business development and competitive advantage. However, there has been a lack of research into the potential for innovation in small retailing and the types of innovative activity that can be applied. This conceptual paper uses key themes from various literature bases, including small retailing, small business innovation, services and retail innovation, to provide a future research agenda for small retailer innovation.

Reframing the Compositional Capability: A Resource-Based View on ‘A Composition-Based View of Firm Growth’

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henk W. Volberda ◽  
Emre Karali
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Firm Growth ◽  
Emerging Economy ◽  
Dynamic Capability ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
The Core ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
Conceptual Setting

This commentary targets the core ideas of the composition-based view (CBV). First, we argue that the deployment of compositional capabilities (CCs) to combine ordinary resources fits the resource-based view (RBV) and that there is therefore no need for a CBV. Second, we argue that the CCs should be presented as a specific type of dynamic capability (DC). We show that even where ordinary resources are being combined, superior combinatory capabilities are needed as competitive advantage cannot otherwise be achieved. Third, we argue that Luo and Child (2015) focused too much on the emerging economy enterprises (EEEs) as the conceptual setting. We conclude with a future research agenda to prepare the ground for research on compositional capabilities within the composition-based view of the firm.

scholarly journals Preparing for a future career through entrepreneurship education: Towards a research agenda

2020 ◽  
pp. 095042222096963
Author(s):  
Nils Magne Killingberg ◽  
Elin Kubberød ◽  
Per Blenker
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Future Career ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
Conceptual Paper

Although most students of entrepreneurship education find employment in established organizations after graduation, the employability of entrepreneurship education graduates remains largely overlooked in the education research literature. In this conceptual paper, the authors address this gap to motivate a future research agenda. The paper describes how entrepreneurship education may enable or impede the graduates’ entrance, development and transition in the labour market. To develop the theoretical arguments, the authors build on a processual conceptualization of employability. Seven propositions are presented to conceptually explore how competencies that are obtained through entrepreneurship education may influence the employability of graduates in a dynamic labour market. The propositions lay the groundwork for future studies on entrepreneurship education graduates’ employability and set a research agenda for how the employability of these graduates could be studied.

scholarly journals Who's Leading This Dance?: Theorizing Automatic and Strategic Synchrony in Human-Exoskeleton Interactions

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin Lawrence Kirkwood ◽  
Christopher D. Otmar ◽  
Mohemmad Hansia
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Adaptive Behaviors ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Wearable Robot ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
Wearable Robots ◽  
Methodological Challenges ◽  
Conceptual Paper ◽  
And Performance

Wearable robots are an emerging form of technology that allow organizations to combine the strength, precision, and performance of machines with the flexibility, intelligence, and problem-solving abilities of human wearers. Active exoskeletons are a type of wearable robot that gives wearers the ability to effortlessly lift up to 200 lbs., as well as perform other types of physically demanding tasks that would be too strenuous for most humans. Synchronization between exoskeleton suits and wearers is one of the most challenging requirements to operate these technologies effectively. In this conceptual paper, we extend interpersonal adaption theory (IAT) to the exoskeleton context and explicate (a) the antecedents that are most likely to shape synchrony in human-exoskeleton interactions, (b) automatic and strategic synchrony as adaptive behaviors in human-exoskeleton interactions, and (c) outcome variables that are especially important in these processes. Lastly, we offer a discussion of key methodological challenges for measuring synchrony in human-exoskeleton interactions and offer a future research agenda for this important area.

scholarly journals The distinctiveness of family-firm intangibles: A review and suggestions for future research

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 268-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jolien Huybrechts ◽  
Wim Voordeckers ◽  
Nadine Lybaert ◽  
Sigrid Vandemaele
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Intangible Resources ◽  
Future Research Agenda

AbstractWe review the theoretical and empirical literature on the resource-based view in the context of family businesses using a framework of intangible resources. This approach allows us to structure the present research on value-adding resources in family firms into four clearly distinct groups – organizational culture, reputation, human capital and networks – and provides us with the opportunity to examine the interactions of these intangible resources. We use these relationships to offer a future research agenda that is focused on the creation of competitive advantage through the combination and recombination of these resources.

scholarly journals The distinctiveness of family-firm intangibles: A review and suggestions for future research

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 268-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jolien Huybrechts ◽  
Wim Voordeckers ◽  
Nadine Lybaert ◽  
Sigrid Vandemaele
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Intangible Resources ◽  
Future Research Agenda

AbstractWe review the theoretical and empirical literature on the resource-based view in the context of family businesses using a framework of intangible resources. This approach allows us to structure the present research on value-adding resources in family firms into four clearly distinct groups – organizational culture, reputation, human capital and networks – and provides us with the opportunity to examine the interactions of these intangible resources. We use these relationships to offer a future research agenda that is focused on the creation of competitive advantage through the combination and recombination of these resources.

A critical inquiry of the Internal Marketing discourse and a future research agenda

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Achilleas Boukis
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Internal Marketing ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Critical Inquiry ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Service Employees ◽  
The Past ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
Conceptual Paper ◽  
Critical Overview

Echoing the fragmented knowledge in the internal marketing (IM) domain and the changing reality for service employees’ role in global marketplaces, this article aspires to provide a critical inquiry into the past, present, and future of the IM domain. This work delivers a critical overview of the grounds of IM work, to provide insights into the advantages and limitations of contemporaneous IM knowledge, and to present a research agenda for the future of IM. This conceptual paper contributes to the ongoing debate about the concept and the scope of IM and presents some potential avenues for investigation for service researchers.

The Limits of Ego Depletion

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 292-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Wenzel ◽  
Marina Lind ◽  
Zarah Rowland ◽  
Daniela Zahn ◽  
Thomas Kubiak
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Statistical Power ◽  
Interindividual Variability ◽  
Ego Depletion ◽  
Crossover Design ◽  
Effect Sizes ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
Depletion Effect ◽  
Within Subjects

Abstract. Evidence on the existence of the ego depletion phenomena as well as the size of the effects and potential moderators and mediators are ambiguous. Building on a crossover design that enables superior statistical power within a single study, we investigated the robustness of the ego depletion effect between and within subjects and moderating and mediating influences of the ego depletion manipulation checks. Our results, based on a sample of 187 participants, demonstrated that (a) the between- and within-subject ego depletion effects only had negligible effect sizes and that there was (b) large interindividual variability that (c) could not be explained by differences in ego depletion manipulation checks. We discuss the implications of these results and outline a future research agenda.

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