European Journal of Innovation Management: Volume 23 Issue 5

Stability and development of user innovation strategies for video game producers

Stefan Koch, Philipp Artmayr

The purpose of this paper is to focus on user innovation strategies and their stability in the video game industry. The main research questions addressed are whether a significant…

Linking national business system and firm level innovation: A serial mediation analysis with intellectual capital and absorptive capacity

Bashir Ahmad, Mehmet Erçek

The purpose of this paper is to explain the link between national business system (NBS) and innovation decisions at the firm level by offering sequentially ordered sense-making…

Innovation and export performance: a meta-analytic review and theoretical integration

Nilay Bıçakcıoğlu-Peynirci, Ayça Kubra Hizarci-Payne, Özge Özgen, Canan Madran

Since an accumulated body of research has examined the link between innovation and export performance and little attention has been paid to consolidate the existent fragmented…

Understanding complementarities among different forms of innovation

Pedro Torres, Mário Augusto

The purpose of this paper is to better understand complementarities-in-performance of three forms of innovations: product innovation, process innovation and organizational…

Intermediate imports and innovation performance: do family firms benefit more?

Marisa Ramírez-Alesón, Marta Fernández-Olmos

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of imported intermediate inputs on innovation performance, differentiating among types of innovation output (product and process…

Innovation dimensions and business performance under environmental uncertainty

Dimitrios Kafetzopoulos, Evangelos Psomas, Dimitris Skalkos

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the dimensions of innovation on manufacturing firm performance taking into consideration the moderating role of environmental…

Does a creative identity encourage innovative behaviour? Evidence from knowledge-intensive IT service firms

Md. Aftab Uddin, H.P. Rasika Priyankara, Monowar Mahmood

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of an employee’s personal creative identity on their innovation behaviour in knowledge-intensive information technology…

How social capital affects innovation in a cultural network: Exploring the role of bonding and bridging social capital

Federica Ceci, Francesca Masciarelli, Simone Poledrini

The purpose of this paper is to explore how bonding (i.e. tightly knit, emotionally close social relationships) and bridging social capital (i.e. outward looking open social…

The role of frequent engagement in alliances in firm likelihood to patent: First wave alliances in UK bio-pharmaceuticals

Despoina Filiou, Heinz Tusselmann, Lawrence Green

The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of alliance experience in firm innovation; it argues that, while cumulative alliance experience has a marginally diminishing…