Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing: Volume 29 Issue 6

Entrepreneurship and service innovation

Nelson Oly Ndubisi

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a special issue on entrepreneurship and service innovation, and to conceptualize the link between entrepreneurial orientation, innovation…

Quality performance of SMEs in a developing economy: direct and indirect effects of service innovation and entrepreneurial orientation

Nelson Oly Ndubisi, James Agarwal

– The purpose of this paper is to examine how innovation and entrepreneurial orientation (EO) affect organizational performance on quality in Asian small enterprise context.

Innovative ability and entrepreneurial activity: two factors to enhance “quality of life”

Rajan Nataraajan, Madhukar G. Angur

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of aspects of knowledge economy covered by the Knowledge Economy Index [KEI] and aspects of entrepreneurial activity covered…

Risk capital constraints to innovation in services

Mark Freel, Paul J. Robson, Sarah Jack

This paper aims to understand the factors associated with perceptions of venture capital as a barrier to innovation in an important subset of knowledge-intensive service firms �…

Evaluating supply chain relationship quality, organisational resources, technological innovation and enterprise performance in the palm oil processing sector in Asia

Yew Chong Tan, Nelson Oly Ndubisi

This paper aims to evaluate the relationship between organisational resources, technological innovation, relationship quality and enterprise performance, as well as the mediating…

Market and technology orientations for service delivery innovation: the link of innovative competence

Hung-Tai Tsou, Ja-Shen Chen, Wen-Hsuan Liao

The purpose of this paper is to deploy an alternative way, drawing upon research in service innovation, to predict service delivery innovation from the extents of market and…

Does intra-firm diffusion of innovation lead to inter-firm relationship benefits? The cases of innovation providers and adopters

Namwoon Kim, Jae H. Pae

This study aims to fill the void of previous research in organizational innovation. The understanding of the factors that affect intra-firm diffusion of innovations, which include…

The adoption of technological innovations in a B2B context: an empirical study on the higher education industry in Egypt

Rania Mohamed Samir Hussein, Maha Mourad

This paper aims to examine the factors that affect the adoption of technological innovations in a service industry, like the higher education industry. Specifically, the use of…

Innovations in marketing of higher education: Foreign market entry mode of not-for-profit universities

Vik Naidoo, Terry Wu

The purpose of this study is to examine the innovations in the international activities of not-for-profit (NFP) universities. While the entry mode literature is well addressed…