Firm Innovation Research Articles

Executive’s Free-Riding and Firm Innovation: Exploring the Microfoundation Mechanism

Executive’s Free-Riding and Firm Innovation: Exploring the Microfoundation Mechanism

“Where and How to Play” A Typology of Exploratory Innovation for Large Incumbent Firms

“Where and How to Play” A Typology of Exploratory Innovation for Large Incumbent Firms

Digital Transformation and Innovation in Family Firms: Developed and Emerging Economies Perspectives

Digital Transformation and Innovation in Family Firms: Developed and Emerging Economies Perspectives

Digital Transformation and Breakthrough Innovation in Chinese Manufacturing Firms

Digital Transformation and Breakthrough Innovation in Chinese Manufacturing Firms

Fostering Sustainable Innovation and Hybrid Performance in Family Firms

Fostering Sustainable Innovation and Hybrid Performance in Family Firms

Navigating Uncertainty: Examining the Role of CEO Dialectical Thinking on Firm Innovation Decision

Navigating Uncertainty: Examining the Role of CEO Dialectical Thinking on Firm Innovation Decision

Influence of Artificial Intelligence on Firm Innovation Behavior

Influence of Artificial Intelligence on Firm Innovation Behavior

Does Imbalance in ESG Dimensions Affect Firm Innovation? A Selective Stakeholder Management Approach

Does Imbalance in ESG Dimensions Affect Firm Innovation? A Selective Stakeholder Management Approach

How Employees’ Perceptions of Gender Equity Impact Firm Innovation

How Employees’ Perceptions of Gender Equity Impact Firm Innovation

How to Configure the Supply Chain to Stimulate Firm Innovation Performance?

How to Configure the Supply Chain to Stimulate Firm Innovation Performance?

Policy Instrument Mix and Firm Innovation Performance: The Moderating Role of Financial Slack

Policy Instrument Mix and Firm Innovation Performance: The Moderating Role of Financial Slack

Exploring the Mechanism of Firms Innovation Responses to Technology-Forcing Policy Changes

Exploring the Mechanism of Firms Innovation Responses to Technology-Forcing Policy Changes

The double-edged sword of customer participation on new product development performance: the contingent roles of relational and environmental factors

ABSTRACT Although customer participation plays an increasingly important role in firm innovation, both its effects on new product development (NPD) performance in the B2B context and the underlying mechanisms remain unclear in the extant literature. Building on the boundary spanning theory, we investigate the double-edged effects of customer participation on NPD performance by explicating the mediating roles of knowledge sharing and customer – developer conflict. Based on a sample of 167 high-tech firms in China, our findings indicate that customer participation can improve NPD performance through knowledge sharing but decrease NPD performance by exacerbating the conflict between the developer firm and its customer. Furthermore, previous cooperation experience attenuates the effects of customer participation on knowledge sharing and customer – developer conflict, whereas technological turbulence strengthens the effect of customer participation on knowledge sharing. Our findings offer important implications for both innovation research and practice.

EXPRESS: Untangling the Duality of Emerging Market Firms’ Response to OFDI Policies on Their Innovation Performance: A Resource Dependence Perspective

Firms’ international expansion, affected by outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) policies of home countries, can greatly shape their innovation performance. Yet, existing literature lacks sufficient investigation toward the nexus between corporate response to policies in OFDI activities and subsequent innovation performance. Thus, the authors designed this study to examine how a firm’s response to OFDI policies affects its innovation performance. Drawing upon the resource dependence theory, the authors theorize corporate response to OFDI policies as firm dependence on home government. By arguing that such dependence differentially affects firm innovation through support and control mechanisms, they elucidate the inverted U-shaped relationship between corporate response to OFDI policies (measured by the percentage of a firm’s OFDI projects in policy-favored markets) and innovation performance (measured as patent counts). Furthermore, this curvilinear relationship, they posit, is moderated and strengthened by home-government subsidies the firm receives (calculated as the ratio of annual subsidies received to yearly sales). With archival data of 2,050 Chinese listed manufacturing firms responding to specific OFDI policies during 2013–2021, their predictions are corroborated. Overall, by illuminating the innovation implications of OFDI as corporate response to policies, this study contributes to the international marketing literature in the context of emerging markets.

Ecological risk management: Effects of carbon risk on firm innovation investment

We investigate the impact of carbon risk on firms' innovation investments. Using a two-way fixed-effects panel regression with a panel dataset of Chinese listed firms for 2018–2021, we find that carbon risk inhibits firms' innovation investments. We also confirm the U-shaped relationship between carbon risk and innovation investment over the long term. We further reveal the conditioning roles of financial constraints, new investments, and carbon information disclosure at the firm level. Additionally, we find that firms' environmental awareness alleviates the impact of carbon risk on innovation investment. The results of this study have implications for firm managers, encouraging them to integrate carbon risk considerations when making the decision to promote firm innovation.

Can climate-related information disclosures strengthen green innovation capacity? Firm-level evidence using textual analysis

This study presents novel insights on modelling the implications of voluntary climate-related information disclosure on corporate green innovation (GI) in China. Based on a constructed dataset of 13,664 firm-year observations between 2014 and 2020, we quantify climate-related disclosures under the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures framework using computerized text analysis. Our findings show that climate-related information disclosure substantially bolsters corporate green innovation after addressing endogeneity concerns. However, the promoting effects vary drastically across industry attributes, ownership structure, and environmental regulations. Further channel analysis demonstrates that “greenwashing” behaviours and financial constraints adversely moderate the nexus between climate-related information disclosure and green innovation of firms, while digital finance positively moderates it. Overall, this study enriches the literature and offers practical implications for firms engaging in the green innovation process more effectively under a more transparent environment-related disclosure system.

Internal Social Capital and Product Innovation of Food Firms

Internal Social Capital and Product Innovation of Food Firms

Data Mining Utilizing Various Leveled Clustering Procedures on the Position of Workers in a Data Innovation Firm

The reason of this paper is to clarify dynamic clustering, the divisive and agglomerative dynamic clustering techniques. It fundamentally centers on the concept of the divisive different leveled shapes as well known as the top-down approach by creating a workflow appear, dendrograms, clustered data table which accumulated the clusters based the chosen property, and appear the isolated between each cluster with the assistance of an data mining device called Python. The DIANA dynamic approach utilized data tests of the list of laborers in a Data Advancement firm to induce clusters from the position column inside the data test table. In this work, we in addition executed genuine infers by creating barchart that shows up the ages of the chosen agent sets plotted against the positions which are the Engineers, Assistants, Workers and Troughs.

Entrepreneurship and innovation in worker cooperatives and conventional firms: the role of external cooperation

AbstractThrough the comparison of conventional firms (CFs) with worker cooperatives (WCs), which are a type of collective enterprise with significant experience in cooperation, this research aims to analyse the influence of external cooperation on the two most prominent factors for the success of enterprises: entrepreneurship and innovation. To this end, a research model is proposed based on contributions from the stakeholders’ perspective of the resource-based view of the firm and tested with data from a survey conducted on WCs and CFs located in two Spanish regions with a long tradition in the cooperative movement. The results highlight that the influence of external cooperation on innovation performance is more relevant for WCs and demonstrate that these collective firms are not disadvantaged in innovation compared to CFs. Furthermore, the results suggest that WCs have a more remarkable ability to compete and cooperate simultaneously, that is, to coopete, due to their participative nature.

Knowledge spillovers or R&D collaboration? Understanding the role of external knowledge for firm innovation

Knowledge spillovers or R&D collaboration? Understanding the role of external knowledge for firm innovation