... enterprises (SMEs) in emerging economies. By examining these dimensions within the framework of strategic innovation operations management, the research aims to understand how SMEs can enhance their competitiveness, adaptability and long-term sustainability. Design/methodology/approach The study focuses...

.../methodology/approach This research is a qualitative study. The authors used focus groups, content analysis and semantic networks as research approaches to identify the main factors that prevent or foster such alignment. Findings Results reveal a leading role of innovation, organizational culture, access...

...Nopadol Rompho; Suthiporn Truktrong Purpose This study aims to determine whether and how objectives and key results (OKRs) help employees collaborate and innovate. Design/methodology/approach A total of 295 executives and operational staff from two types of organizations – large corporations...

...Manuel-Alejandro Ibarra-Cisneros; Juan Benito Vela-Reyna; Felipe Hernandez-Perlines Purpose The purpose of the present paper is to analyse the impact of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and customer orientation (Co.) on innovation in the restaurant industry, as well as how innovation also...

... experiences, in order to identify innovative cultural value creation and co-creation practices. Design/methodology/approach The authors adopt a qualitative approach of multiple case studies. The analysis conducted formed the information base through which to proceed with the classification of phygital...

...Hisham Idrees; Syed Arslan Haider; Jin Xu; Shehnaz Tehseen; Naveed Jan Purpose This study aims to investigate the mediating effect of innovation on the relationship between KM (KM) capabilities and organisational performance in the context of construction firms operating in Pakistan. Worldwide...

.... Competitiveness Sustainability Strategies Systematic literature review Corporate social responsibility Innovation The literature concerning sustainable development highlights that it is one of the most important research topics, representing an international call for everyone to avoid more damage...

...Salvatore Garbellano; Maria do Rosário Da Veiga Purpose This paper aims to focus on how Industry 4.0 technology transfer has been implemented by leading Italian innovative small, and medium-size companies (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach This exploratory-descriptive study uses qualitative...

.... Findings The findings show that psychological empowerment has no significant role in moderating the transformational leadership – TMT performance relationship. Internal support for innovation plays a significant role in mediating the relationship between transformational leadership and TMT performance...

... ; Macdonald, 1978 ; Lu et al., 2013). Therefore, we regard this block of decentralization and supervisory work as a tool to establish an innovative atmosphere in a firm and form the following hypotheses. Innovation Financial performance Knowledge management Organizational performance...

...Petra Andersson; Helena Forslund Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop an indicator framework for measuring sustainable logistics innovation (SLI) in retail. Design/methodology/approach A literature review in different theory areas was conducted to generate a literature-based SLI...

...Kenneth David Strang Purpose The purpose of this study is to analyze how strategic planning is used as critical success factors (CSF’s) in not-for-profit (NFP) organizations. This was because many nonprofits had to innovate their operations owing to the global fiscal crises, the continuing...

...Minna Saunila Purpose This paper aims to focus on the challenges and characteristics of innovation performance measurement in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach This study is exploratory-descriptive and uses mixed-method research. Quantitative...

...Davide Aloini; Riccardo Dulmin; Giulia Farina; Valeria Mininno; Luisa Pellegrini Purpose Open innovation (OI) literature suggests that firms can improve their innovation performance by learning from a large set of actors in the innovation process. However, the extant literature has overlooked...

... among technological strategy, openness (innovatively measured in terms of partner intensity, phase intensity and variety in terms of partners, phases and contents) and innovation performance. Our study relies on data from 415 firms based on a research survey developed in Finland, Italy and Sweden...

...Dr Daniela Carlucci; Roberto Palmieri; Carlo Giglio Purpose – The paper focuses on the management of the innovation process. It provides a more comprehensive approach for the analysis of the mutual relationships among creativity, knowledge and innovation (CKI), thus going beyond the one...

... costs. In the development of application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), for instance, technical engineers had the task to design new ASICs while paying attention to every component and part of different circuit boards, so as to seek substitutes with lower costs. Thanks to such innovation...

...Antonio Lerro; Antonio Lerro Purpose This editorial of the special issue of Measuring Business Excellence is devoted to introduce and discuss a knowledge‐based perspective of innovation and performance improvement in health care (HC). Design/methodology/approach The approaches...

...Carla Rossi Purpose The paper aims to outline the managerial challenges faced by the organizations interested in leveraging knowledge and creative talent embedded in online customers' communities to sustain innovation in b‐2‐c industries. Design/methodology/approach Through...

...Daniela Carlucci; Antonio Lerro; Alessandro Muscio; Gianluca Nardone; Antonio Dottore Purpose This paper aims to focus on understanding how demand for innovation is articulated in low‐tech industries, dominated by SMEs, where innovation is often based on informal processes and uncodified...