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Table 1

Selected conceptualizations of innovativeness in B2B research

Authors	Key concept	Definition	Innovation-related practices or inputs examined	Who perceived the innovativeness?	Outcome of innovativeness
Azadegan (2011)	Supplier’s operational innovativeness	An organization’s capability and willingness to generate new production methods, new approaches to processes and new process technologies	Knowledge sharing routines, effective governance	Customer	Performance benefit (proxy for evaluation)
Bryan Jean et al. (2017)	Supplier innovativeness	The extent to which suppliers are inclined to engage in innovative behavior, such as adopting new ideas or new technology	Supplier’s customer orientation, Customer control, tech uncertainties	Supplier^a	Customer dependence and relationship performance
Calantone et al. (2002)	Firm innovativeness	The rate of innovation adoption by the firm and the firm’s willingness to change	Learning orientation	Supplier	Firm performance through competitive edge
Heirati and Siahtiri (2019)	Service innovativeness	Novelty and meaningfulness (e.g. radical vs incremental) that are useful for business customers and effectively address their needs	Customer-supplier collaboration from knowledge base view	Supplier	Knowledge and learning
Inemek and Matthyssens (2013)	Supplier innovativeness	The ability of a supplier firm to generate and implement new ideas, new ways of doing things or new methods of operation, as well as investments in new products, processes and technologies	Interfirm knowledge sharing routines, relation-specific investments and governance mechanisms	Supplier	Supplier’s knowledge resources
Kibbeling et al. (2013)	Innovativeness	Openness to new ideas as an aspect of the firm’s culture	Supplier’s end-use orientation	Supplier, customer and focal firms	Focal firms’ innovativeness and end-user satisfaction
Ozdemir et al. (2020)	Firm innovativeness	Firms’ capability of introducing new products in the market	Legal bonds, technological turbulence, vertical stakeholder integration, operational linkages	Supplier	New product performance, firm performance
Santos-Vijande et al. (2012)	Innovativeness	Knowledge-based intensive services (KBIS) Firms' actual ability to regularly adopt or implement more innovations in the administrative and technical domains relative to competition	Involving customers and front-line employees in developing new services, new service co-creation culture, the influence of the former on the firms’ innovation capability	Suppliers	Innovation capacity, customer performance, business performance
Schiele et al. (2011)	Supplier innovativeness	buyer’s perception of supplier’s contribution in joint innovation process		Customer	Capability of suppliers and the position of the buyer as a supplier’s preferred customer
Siamagka et al. (2015)	Organizational innovativeness	Key organizational capability where organizations are open to new ideas and solutions in the context of technological adoption	Results demonstrability	–	Perceives usefulness, perceived ease of use
Zhang et al. (2016)	Innovativeness	The new applications of knowledge, ideas, methods and skills that can generate better solutions to meet customer needs and market demands	Support and solution service, co-creation, integration, co-production	Manufacturers	Fulfil customer’s demands innovatively, improve the functionality or features of products

Authors	Key concept	Definition	Innovation-related practices or inputs examined	Who perceived the innovativeness?	Outcome of innovativeness
Azadegan (2011)	Supplier’s operational innovativeness	An organization’s capability and willingness to generate new production methods, new approaches to processes and new process technologies	Knowledge sharing routines, effective governance	Customer	Performance benefit (proxy for evaluation)
Bryan Jean et al. (2017)	Supplier innovativeness	The extent to which suppliers are inclined to engage in innovative behavior, such as adopting new ideas or new technology	Supplier’s customer orientation, Customer control, tech uncertainties	Supplier^a	Customer dependence and relationship performance
Calantone et al. (2002)	Firm innovativeness	The rate of innovation adoption by the firm and the firm’s willingness to change	Learning orientation	Supplier	Firm performance through competitive edge
Heirati and Siahtiri (2019)	Service innovativeness	Novelty and meaningfulness (e.g. radical vs incremental) that are useful for business customers and effectively address their needs	Customer-supplier collaboration from knowledge base view	Supplier	Knowledge and learning
Inemek and Matthyssens (2013)	Supplier innovativeness	The ability of a supplier firm to generate and implement new ideas, new ways of doing things or new methods of operation, as well as investments in new products, processes and technologies	Interfirm knowledge sharing routines, relation-specific investments and governance mechanisms	Supplier	Supplier’s knowledge resources
Kibbeling et al. (2013)	Innovativeness	Openness to new ideas as an aspect of the firm’s culture	Supplier’s end-use orientation	Supplier, customer and focal firms	Focal firms’ innovativeness and end-user satisfaction
Ozdemir et al. (2020)	Firm innovativeness	Firms’ capability of introducing new products in the market	Legal bonds, technological turbulence, vertical stakeholder integration, operational linkages	Supplier	New product performance, firm performance
Santos-Vijande et al. (2012)	Innovativeness	Knowledge-based intensive services (KBIS) Firms' actual ability to regularly adopt or implement more innovations in the administrative and technical domains relative to competition	Involving customers and front-line employees in developing new services, new service co-creation culture, the influence of the former on the firms’ innovation capability	Suppliers	Innovation capacity, customer performance, business performance
Schiele et al. (2011)	Supplier innovativeness	buyer’s perception of supplier’s contribution in joint innovation process		Customer	Capability of suppliers and the position of the buyer as a supplier’s preferred customer
Siamagka et al. (2015)	Organizational innovativeness	Key organizational capability where organizations are open to new ideas and solutions in the context of technological adoption	Results demonstrability	–	Perceives usefulness, perceived ease of use
Zhang et al. (2016)	Innovativeness	The new applications of knowledge, ideas, methods and skills that can generate better solutions to meet customer needs and market demands	Support and solution service, co-creation, integration, co-production	Manufacturers	Fulfil customer’s demands innovatively, improve the functionality or features of products

Note(s):

^a

Perception inferred rather than directly elicited