Radical Innovation Research Articles

Innovación en los ecosistemas de distribución turística: el papel de los intermediaries y nuevos agentes

Tourism distribution is facing new challenges characterised by accelerating innovation cycles, a shift from traditional to digital business models, and ever-deepening technical know-how, which provide organisations with new opportunities to expand their capabilities and become more competitive. We aim to achieve a comprehensive and updated synthesis of current research approaches to innovation in tourism distribution ecosystems and provide proposals for future studies. This is one of the first thematic reviews to concentrate on how the tourism distribution ecosystem can be understood comprehensively through the application of the 6C framework. The study aims to conduct an in-depth review of 53 selected papers obtained from a specific search criterion employed across widespread repositories of Scopus and Web of Science databases, capturing the period from Jan 2001 to August 2023. In business ecosystems, advancements in information and communications technologies have triggered radical innovations in tourism distribution with the emergence of players with new business models. This affects traditional players who must innovate to remain competitive. An organisational analysis shows that new online players lead product innovation, whereas traditional distributors rely more on process innovation. Organisational innovation has emerged as necessary for both.

Does broadband infrastructure promote urban innovation? Evidence from “Broadband China” demonstration policy

Broadband infrastructure plays a key role in supporting innovation. This paper takes the “Broadband China” demonstration policy as a quasi-natural experiment, adopts the data of 284 cities and multi-phase Difference-in-Differences (DID) approach to explore the impact of broadband infrastructure on urban innovation. We find that broadband infrastructure significantly boosts urban innovation, the increase of internet penetration rate and the development of information technology industry are the two influence channels. Heterogeneity tests show that the boosting effect of broadband infrastructure on innovation are stronger in eastern cities, large cities, key cities and cities with better educational resources. We also find that broadband infrastructure plays a stronger role in promoting radical innovation than incremental innovation, and the “Broadband China” demonstration policy produces a positive spillover effect on nearby cities' innovation.

Comparing Radical and Incremental Innovation in Venture Capital Syndication: Exploring the Influence of R&D Intensity and Sector-Specific Effects

Comparing Radical and Incremental Innovation in Venture Capital Syndication: Exploring the Influence of R&D Intensity and Sector-Specific Effects

Opportunity enhancing human resource practices and radical innovation: The mediating role of exploration

Aim/purpose – This study evaluates the influence of opportunity-enhancing human resource practices on radical innovation and examines the mediating role of exploration capability in this relationship. Design/methodology/approach – Hypotheses were formulated to determine the rela- tionship between opportunity-enhancing human resource practices and radical innova- tion, as well as the mediating role that exploration capability plays in this relationship. These were tested in 168 Colombian companies from the telecommunications and chem- ical-pharmaceutical sectors using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) via the Partial Least Squares (PLS) technique. Findings – The study indicates that opportunity-enhancing human resource practices positively and significantly influence radical innovation. In addition, this relationship is mediated by exploration capability. Research implications/limitations – Organizations should implement opportunity- -enhancing human resource practices to support radical innovation development. These practices provide employees with opportunities to explore relevant knowledge and tech- nologies necessary for radical innovation. Originality/value/contribution – Identifying and testing a specific group of human resource practices that facilitate radical innovation is one of the most significant gaps in the scientific literature on the relationship between human resource practices and innova- tion. According to this article, opportunity-enhancing human resource practices facilitate radical innovation in organizations. Furthermore, previous research has not examined the relationship between opportunity-enhancing human resource practices, exploration capa- bility, and radical innovation. Keywords: exploration capability, radical innovation, opportunity-enhancing HR prac- tices, Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). JEL Classification: O3, M1.

The Bottom-of-the-Pyramid (BOP) Market: Why and How Does Serving the Impoverished Segment Promote Radical Innovation?

This article examines a counter-intuitive phenomenon that radical innovation can be developed in bottom-of-the-pyramid (BOP) market. Applying the path of least resistance theory and integrating it with the attention-based view, we develop a theoretical framework that links the firm capability of BOP market commitment to radical innovation through architectural and modular knowledge search strategies and highlights the contingency of the choice of knowledge search strategies on the two pillars of strategic orientation – customer orientation and technology orientation. Based on a survey among managers in China, one of the largest BOP markets in the world, we find that while both architectural and modular knowledge search strategies act as the operating mechanisms that drive the positive effect of BOP market commitment on radical innovation, customer orientation strengthens (weakens) the positive effect of BOP market commitment on architectural (modular) knowledge search strategy. In contrast, technology orientation weakens (does not change) the positive effect of BOP market commitment on architectural (modular) knowledge search strategy. The research results make substantial contributions to multiple research streams, including the BOP literature, studies on creativity and innovation under constraints, research on strategic orientation, and studies on radical innovation.

To Go or to Not Go Green for SMEs: Toward the Twinning Effect of Ecodesign Practices and Radical Innovativeness on SME Performance

Despite the burgeoning literature on green innovation, the research on how it influences the business performance of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is relatively scarce. For SMEs, environmental sustainability is becoming an increasingly crucial consideration in the design and conception of their business models. In this article, we explore the determinants of SME performance by investigating the relationship between the ecodesign practices and business performance of SMEs. To further explain and clarify their association, we propose a model for examining the mediating role of radical innovativeness, i.e., firms’ commercialization of an entirely novel idea, new to the firm and its markets. The data are obtained from a relatively heterogeneous sample of 370 SMEs cutting across many industries and regions in France. Structural equation modeling is then employed to analyze the collected data. By applying the concepts from resource-based view theory, we find that the relationship between ecodesign practices and business performance, as measured by financial and nonfinancial indicators, is better understood if the influence of radical innovativeness, as a mediating variable, is considered. By incorporating ecodesign practices and radical innovativeness into the analysis of SME performance, this study provides several important theoretical and practical implications for promoting green innovation for SMEs.

Radical or Incremental? Impacts of Mergers and Acquisitions on Firms’ Innovation

This article studies whether and how mergers and acquisitions (M&A) intensity makes an impact on a firm's postacquisition innovation. By differentiating the types of innovation, we show that M&A has differential effects on postacquisition radical innovation and incremental innovation. Using a publicly listed firm sample in China from 2011 to 2015, our empirical results provide support that M&A intensity has an inverted U-shaped effect on radical innovation, and has a positive and significant impact on incremental innovation. Furthermore, we introduce Chief Executive Officer (CEO) career background as a contingency factor, showing that the inverted U-shaped relationship between M&A intensity and radical innovation is more pronounced in firms with technical CEOs than in those with nontechnical CEOs, and the positive relationship between M&A intensity and incremental innovation is more pronounced in firms with nontechnical CEOs than in those with technical CEOs. Our findings add to the understanding of organizational consequences of M&A and the role of strategical leadership in the relationship between M&A intensity and firm innovation.

A Window of Opportunity: Radical Versus Repurposing Innovation Under Conditions of Environmental Uncertainty and Crisis.

In this article, we extend the innovation literature by examining how firms respond to crisis, specifically exogenous crises. At their early onset, crises may represent a window of opportunity for innovation, but it is not equally allocated across firms. We created a unique database of 636 biopharmaceutical firms, from 24 countries and territories, developing innovative treatments during the early outbreak of the COVID-19 crisis to study this phenomenon. We found that firms acted strategically to the shifting external environment and attempted to capitalize on the opportunity by pursuing different but complementary innovation strategies (i.e., radical versus repurposed). The successful outcome of a chosen strategy was highly dependent upon a firm's accumulated knowledge resources, which varied in degree of diversity (i.e., homogeneous versus heterogeneous). We found that firms with more focused R&D (i.e., homogeneous knowledge) developed more radical innovations, whereas firms with more diverse R&D (i.e., heterogeneous knowledge) repurposed innovations. We controlled for firm size (small versus large), firm age (startup versus mature), and country classification (developing versus emerging). We also controlled for a firm's prior knowledge and expertise in coronavirus research and found that it did not influence innovation. Our results suggest that this unique period of environmental uncertainty and crisis created a window of opportunity and a level playing field for innovation.

Достойная жизнь личности: императивы формирования и основания параметрической модели

The article examines the phenomenon of a decent life, which acts, at the same time, as a target functionality for the development of the individual, and also as an «incubator» for the expanded reproduction of the creative and intellectual form of human capital, which is a critical factor in the creation of large-scale, continuous and radical innovations. The methodological outline of the work is based on an interdisciplinary approach to identifying the qualitative integrity of an individual’s life with the «dignity» of a progressive creator, as well as on the use of the heuristic potential of paired categories of dialectics in the course of considering decompositional forms of human capital corresponding to a decent creative and working life of the individual. The method of unity of qualitative and quantitative analysis was also used in the development of a parametric model of a decent life for an individual. The scientific novelty of the research results lies in the development of an original parametric model with the corresponding integral index of a decent life (DLI). The following seem new: the interpretation of the essence of a decent life as a spiritual and moral form of the level and quality of life; immanent in the life of an individual with «dignity», the phenomenon of the creative and intellectual form of human capital with the corresponding parameters and indicators; conclusion about the need to ensure complementary unity of two types of growth of synergetic complexity: endogenous (personal) and exogenous (socio-economic); the imperative of the «renaissance» of the individualistic concept, based on new liberalism and methodological socio-individualism. The scientific and practical significance of the results obtained lies in the possibility of concretizing the state’s socio-economic policy in the sphere of increasing the level and quality of creative and working life of the owners of human capital, as well as updating the metric system of human «measurement» to solve the problems of technological sovereignty and national security of the country.

Innovation as a Differentiation Strategy: Its Differential Substitution Effects on Corporate Social Responsibility

The engineering management literature has long acknowledged that innovation is the most significant differentiation strategy for firms to achieve competitiveness and hence firm performance. More recently, corporate social responsibility (CSR) is recognized as another differentiation strategy which also contributes to firm performance. However, the joint performance effects of innovation and CSR have not been sufficiently investigated, particularly on the interplay between different types of innovation and CSR. This study classifies innovation into solitary and collaborative innovation as well as incremental and radical innovation to examine their differential effects. Employing a panel dataset of 2377 Chinese manufacturing firms during the period of 2010–2019, we discover that there exists an inverted U-shaped CSR–performance relationship. More importantly, we reveal that collaborative innovation has a stronger attenuating effect on the inverted U-shaped performance effect of CSR than solitary innovation. Similarly, radical innovation has a stronger attenuating effect than incremental innovation. Our research advances the innovation and CSR literature by providing novel insights regarding how different types of innovation alter the curvilinear performance effect of CSR in an emerging economy.

Бинарная личность как критический субъект самоорганизации современной экономики

The article is devoted to substantiating the need for a qualitative renewal of a personality-oriented approach to the study of modern economics. At the same time, the methodological basis was the evolutionary and behavioral economic theories, in which the main subject of activity is the personality. The novelty of the results of the work lies in the identification of a synergetic form of increasing economic complexity, as well as the designation of a critical entity with authority to carry out economic self-organization. The concept of a binary personality is substantiated, which represents the unity of the individual as a «collapsed» society and society as an «expanded» individual. The unity and interrelation of the phenomena of binary personality and binary quality of economic synergetics as the basis of progressive economic development in the process of ensuring dynamic balance of freedom of economic decision-making and the need to develop morally acceptable forms of their creative and labor realization is shown. The necessity of the «renaissance» of individualism is proved, since it is the unique individual who is the generator, first of all, of implicit knowledge as the cognitive basis of large-scale and radical innovations. The scientific and practical significance of the article's conclusions lies in the possibility of their use for further improvement of the disciplinary matrix of political economic analysis, as well as for qualitative updating of programs of all forms and types of modern education, the objective function of which should be to form divergent thinking among students and employees.

How Does Paradox Strategic Cognition Affect Radical Innovation Performance in Established Firms?

How Does Paradox Strategic Cognition Affect Radical Innovation Performance in Established Firms?

Impact of Barriers on Innovation Outcomes: Novelty as a Contingent in the Case of Service and Commerce Sectors in Colombia

This article analyzes the impact of revealed barriers - those challenges faced by firms during their innovation endeavors - on the firms’ innovation outcomes. The central hypothesis of this study proposes that this impact varies depending on the level of novelty associated with the innovation developed. To accomplish this objective, probit regression models are employed using data sourced from the Sixth Survey of Innovation and Technological Development in the Service and Commerce Sectors (EDITS VI) conducted by the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) of Colombia for the period 2016-2017. The obtained results demonstrate that innovation barriers exert distinct impacts on the attainment of innovations of varying degrees of novelty (radical innovation versus incremental innovation). Based on these findings, the discussion delves into recommendations for policy design and managerial implications.

Research on performance feedback path under the influence of organizational restructuring

In diverse and changing environments, organizations often need to reorganize their teams in order to adapt to market changes, improve performance and promote innovation. Team restructuring involves the merging, realignment, or reorganization of different departments or teams, usually accompanied by reassignment of personnel, changes in roles, and new job requirements. The innovation and organizational theory literatures argue that implementing radical innovation can be facilitated or hindered by the organization’s structural design (Abraham YNahm, 2003), a process in which the integration of elements and performance feedback become crucial factors that affect the success of the team and employee satisfaction. team success and employee satisfaction. Specialization, formalization, informal social relations and link mechanisms have positive significant effects on innovation capability (Mohammad Iranmanesh, 2021) The purpose of this paper is to analyze the feedback paths of factor integration and performance outputs of reorganized teams in the hope of providing a multifactorial theoretical support for reorganized teams and finding positive feedbacks of performance outputs.

What is Patent Management? The Purification and Validation of an Integrated Measurement Scale

Academics and practitioners have since decades been interested in the organizational and managerial aspects of patent management. However, little attention has been devoted to validating and testing a measurement scale of patent management. With this background, the current article aims to empirically assess the factor structure of a patent management measurement scale, purify the scale, and validate it. The methodology follows the widely recognized procedure for scale validation and focuses on two steps: scale purification through an exploratory factor analysis on survey data and scale finalization through a confirmatory factor analysis performed on another set of data. The article yields that patent management has five core processes, namely generation, freedom to operate, portfolio management, exploitation and enforcement, and intelligence, as well as two supporting dimensions, namely strategy and organization for patenting. For each of these core processes and supporting dimensions, we outline the formative subconstructs as well as how these subconstructs are reflected in observable and measurable items. With the validity analysis, we show the significant impact of patent management on radical innovation performance.

Foreign executives, digital transformation, and innovation performance: Evidence from Chinese-listed firms.

This study investigates the effect of foreign executives on firms' innovation performance and the mediation role of digital transformation in Chinese-listed firms from 2011 to 2021. Our findings indicate that the presence of foreign executives in top management teams promotes firms' innovation performance by enhancing digital transformation. Further analyses show that foreign executives contribute significantly to improving firms' radical innovation performance rather than incremental innovation performance. We also examine the moderating effect of negative performance feedback and financing constraints between foreign executives and innovation performance, finding that foreign executives can promote innovation performance particularly in firms with negative performance feedback and weak financing constraints.

R&D 조세 지원 정책과 기업 혁신활동 간의 관계 연구

Purpose - The purpose of this study was to analyse the relationship between R&D tax support policy and firm innovation activity using data on firms engaged in 12 national strategic technology sectors.
 Design/methodology/approach - This study collected survey data from 664 companies engaged in national strategic technologies. The data were then analysed using the Propensity Score Matching (PSM) analysis.
 Findings - First, corporate R&D tax support had a statistically significant positive (+) relationship with firm innovation performance. Second, there was a statistically significant positive (+) relationship with incremental innovation, but there was no statistical significance with radical innovation. Third, there was a statistically significant positive (+) relationship with the firm's first innovation, but there was no statistical significance with the world's first innovation. Fourth, there was a statistically significant positive (+) relationship with the number of R&D projects of a firm. Finally, there was a statistically significant positive (+) relationship with a firm's open innovation.
 Research implications or Originality - First, in terms of policy effectiveness, the government needs to consider promoting R&D tax support policies in areas where R&D competition is fierce. For private companies engaged in the 12 national strategic technology fields, the R&D tax support policy is working in the direction of promoting corporate innovation activities, and this positive policy effect is likely to be effective in areas where R&D competition is fierce. Second, if the government wants to improve the quality of corporate innovation activities through R&D tax support policies, it needs to provide incentives higher than the current level.

An Evaluation of Traditional and Innovatory Approaches in Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht and ‘Nacht’ from Pierrot Lunaire

This study analyzes Arnold Schoenberg’s particular perspective on tradition and innovation. Verklärte Nacht (1899), which he composed in his tonal period and which thus has a more traditional character, and Pierrot Lunaire (1912), from his ‘free’ atonal period, are discussed to illustrate the composer’s different approaches. This article aims to show that these approaches do not represent two separate periods but rather create a single style and can be understood as mutually related within the composer’s output. Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 and Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21, No. 8 will be interpreted in the context of tradition-innovation relations by means of descriptive analysis and literature review, and in the context of wider tradition and innovation relations in his other works. It is observed that the composer still adhered to 19th-century traditions at some points; however, as he himself argued, it is unrealistic to force Schoenberg into a specific mould. When examining the different compositional periods of the composer, it is possible to discern diverse features. It should be noted that the traditionalist and innovative tendencies in the composer’s works are not distinguished as easily as may be thought, and that the composer should not be evaluated in terms of degrees of complexity. Results show that Schoenberg was not a composer who adhered to any one theory or technique, but rather a versatile composer. Describing him as a traditionalist on one hand or a radical innovator on the other does him a disservice.

Political connection heterogeneity and firm innovation: An investigation of privately controlled, publicly listed firms in China

AbstractThis study investigates the influence of ascribed and achieved political connections on corporate strategies of incremental versus radical innovation. The corporate political strategy literature maintains that while politically connected firms have access to resources controlled by the government, they also have an obligation to reciprocate for this access by fulfilling government expectations. We integrate an institutional perspective with the political strategy literature to develop the argument that ascribed political connections enhance incremental innovation because firms with these connections will tend to innovate just enough to meet government expectations. In contrast, firms with achieved political connections will tend to prefer radical innovation because these innovations help them to maintain their relationships with the government and expand their competitive advantage in the market. Furthermore, we propose that these effects depend on firms' innovation orientation, captured by the firms' technological capability, industry characteristics, and the innovation context of their geographical region. Our predictions are largely supported by analysis of a panel dataset of privately controlled, publicly listed Chinese firms during the period 2008 to 2018. Our findings reveal that the positive effect of ascribed political connections on incremental innovation is less salient when a firm has stronger technological capability, or when a firm operates in a high‐tech industry or a region with a strong innovative climate. Conversely, the positive influence of achieved political connections on radical innovation is stronger when a firm has stronger technological capability, or when a firm competes in a high‐tech industry or is located in a region with a strong innovative climate. We also discuss the important implications for firms and the government.

The role of transactive memory system of inter-organizational collaboration in innovation and performance

PurposeThis study assesses how the transactive memory systems (TMS) framework extends to cross-organizational ties. This research also treats TMS dimensions (i.e. knowledge specialization, coordination and trust) as distinct variables, each with unique contributions toward innovation.Design/methodology/approachThis study used a survey to collect data. Out of the 140 Fintech firms registered with OJK in Indonesia in 2021, 101 firms responded to the invitation to participate in the survey. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data.FindingsThe authors find evidence that collaborating with partners displaying high knowledge specialization leads to radical innovation, while low knowledge specialization collaborations lead to incremental innovation. Both relationships are moderated by the level of coordination and trust between collaborating partners, underlining the impact of TMS on the cross-organizational collaboration aspect. Finally, while incremental innovation leads to higher performance, radical innovation does not enhance performance in the short term.Originality/valueThis study explains how Fintech peer-to-peer lending firms' proficiency in pursuing innovation depends on their liaison with the collaborative partners.