European Journal of Innovation Management: Volume 27 Issue 1

The impact of social and organisational capital on service innovation capability during COVID-19: the mediating role of strategic environmental scanning

Lama Blaique, Taghreed Abu-Salim, Farzana Asad Mir, Barry Omahony

This purpose of this study was to examine the impact of social and organisational capital on service innovation capability among service firms in the United Arab Emirates (UAE…

Opening up to innovation: emotional intelligence as an intrapersonal resource

Bradley G. Winton, Misty A. Sabol

There is no innovation without ideas. More than ever before, these ideas are increasingly difficult to express in a changing environment ripe with emotions. Today's organizations…

Effects of open climate on innovation radicality in SMEs: relevance of hidden innovation

María Isabel Barba-Aragón, Daniel Jimenez-Jimenez, Ledian Valle-Mestre

Open innovation is an issue that has aroused great interest in recent years. The need to create an environment that facilitates the creation of ideas is essential for the…

Knowledge recombination, environmental turbulence and firms' innovation quality: the evidence from Chinese pharmaceutical industry

Zhen Luo, Julie Callaert, Deming Zeng, Bart Van Looy

Shifting focus from innovation quantity to innovation quality becomes a priority in innovation study, business and policy. This paper aims to figure out whether and how knowledge…

Exploring how entrepreneurial orientation improve firm resilience in digital era: findings from sequential mediation and FsQCA

Qinghua Xia, Yi Xie, Shuchuan Hu, Jianmin Song

Under extensive pressure from normal market competition, frequent technological change and extreme exogenous shock, firms are facing severe challenge nowadays. How to withstand…

Knowledge management enablers and knowledge management processes: a direct and configurational approach to stimulate green innovation

Muhammad Usman Shehzad, Jianhua Zhang, Mir Dost, Muhammad Shakil Ahmad, Sajjad Alam

Given the critical importance of green innovation (GI) for organizations in developing economies, this study aims to examine the interrelationship between knowledge management…

Modelling organizational resilience structure: insights to assess resilience integrating bounce-back and bounce-forward

Ilona Bartuseviciene, Mindaugas Butkus, Giovanni Schiuma

This paper aims to model organizational resilience structure. Based on the central insights of the scientific literature, organizational resilience is modelled as the result of an…

How does family ownership and management influence green innovation of family firms: evidence from China

Xuelei Yang, Hangbiao Shang, Weining Li, Hailin Lan

Based on the socio-emotional wealth and agency theories, this study empirically investigates the impact of family ownership and management on green innovation (GI) in family…

Enhancing innovation through gender diversity: a two-country study of top management teams

Martin Hemmert, Cecile K. Cho, Ji Young Lee

Building on upper echelons theory, the authors advance the literature on the influence of diversity on innovation by studying the link between top management team (TMT) gender…

Fostering product and process innovation through transformational leadership and knowledge management capability: the moderating role of innovation culture

Linnan Gui, Hui Lei, Phong Ba Le

Due to the vital role of innovation for firms to respond effectively to the rapid changes of business environment, the purpose of this study is to explore the influence of…

Feeling torn? The conflicting effects of market and entrepreneurial orientations on manufacturing SMEs' innovation performance

Hyojin Kim, Daesik Hur

This study focuses on how a small and medium-sized enterprise's (SME's) main strategic orientation can affect SMEs' approach to innovation. The authors aim to answer the following…

Can intellectual capital promote the competitive advantage? Service innovation and big data analytics capabilities in a moderated mediation model

Ayman Wael Alkhatib, Marco Valeri

This study explores the connection between intellectual capital (IC) components and the competitive advantage (CA) of the hospitality sector in Jordan through the mediating role…

Entrepreneurial mentoring, financial support and incubator patent licensing: evidence from Chinese incubators

Yanru Chang, Qiang Cheng

Based on Chinese incubators as the research sample, this paper aims to examine whether and how incubators' entrepreneurial mentoring and financial support affect incubator patent…

Boundary-spanning search and business model innovation: the joint moderating effects of innovative cognitive imprinting and environmental dynamics

Peiyu Zhu, Xiaoming Miao, Shumo Jin

Business model innovation (BMI) is an important channel of enterprise innovation, and BMI's antecedents have attracted extensive attention. The purpose of this paper is to address…

Leveraging the supply base for innovation: how does supply base management affect innovation performance?

Xiaoyun Li, Suicheng Li, Jianqi Qiao, Mengchao Wu

This study aims to develop a moderated mediation model to explain the practices of supply base management and how they can achieve innovation performance, and the authors explore…