Firms involved in the widespread practice of (delegated) innovation scouting face a crucial challenge: How to motivate innovation scouts to engage in extensive search for innovative projects given that search success oftentimes eludes them? Motivated by common scouting practice, we build a...

Management research has increasingly explored the domains of ecosystems, platforms, and open/user/distributed innovation - governance structures focused on engaging with external communities. While these research areas include substantial empirical and theoretical work and share notable...

Online innovation communities allow for a search for novel solutions within a design space bounded by constraints. Past research has focused on the effect of creative constraints on individual projects, but less is known about how constraints affect learning from repeated design submissions and...

While users may be an important source of innovation, and even of entrepreneurship, we know little about the exact psychological mechanism that underpins user innovators’ transition to user entrepreneurship (UE). In this study, we focus on user innovators’ communitarian identity, which is a...

This paper studies the complementarity effect of combining different Environmental Corporate Social Responsibility (ECSR) practices on innovation. We apply the ‘Complementarity Approach’ to test whether the adoption of the three ECSR practices studied (fewer materials per unit produced, less...

Building organisational resilience is crucial for businesses and even affects their survival and growth. China's economic development is being put under "triple pressure" by a decline in demand, a supply shock, and lowered expectations, particularly in the wake of COVID-19. The external...

In the context of digitalized markets, the high-tech firm’s technological innovation performing is discouraging because they can’t always leverage the synergies of digital technology with their legacy technologies effectively. Given this situation, we firstly construct four digital...

Despite the increasing significance of disruptive innovations for entrepreneurial firms, our understanding of how entrepreneurial opportunities for such innovations are created and/or discovered remains limited. Through an in-depth case study of IDIS, a digital security venture company that...

Urban innovation has become increasingly vital for cities seeking to enhance economic growth, competitiveness, and sustainability. Government engagement has been recognized as a significant driver of innovation, with official site visits emerging as a potentially influential catalyst for urban...

We explore the phenomenon of drug repurposing, the re-use of existing drugs for new disease targets. Repurposing has grown as an approach to R&D in the pharmaceutical sector over the last twenty years, prompted by technological innovations in data science and the availability of new data...