Research background: Every business activity involves the business environment. The faster rate of technology development has an impact on innovation management roles within the company as well as innovation approach methods. For these reasons, it is necessary to analyze innovation management in...

This study develops and validates an innovation management framework based on the integration of dynamic capabilities and multidimensional innovation process factors. A mixed-methods approach was employed, combining a quantitative survey of 267 respondents from the Porto Digital ecosystem with...

As governments pursue digital transformation to improve service delivery and administrative efficiency, AI chatbots have emerged as a promising innovation in smart public administration. However, their adoption remains limited, particularly in transitioning countries where institutional,...

The adoption of open innovation poses significant challenges that are important to explore. Studies in this field have mainly focused on exploring the causes of the failure of open innovation among large companies. This study addresses this research gap by employing a sample of 297 Portuguese...

This paper examines the posturing, positioning and practice of Business Design (BD) at Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, exploring its evolution since the late 1990s to today. It outlines BD's introduction as a design thinking-lite approach to strategy innovation and its...

The adoption of innovations to support technological transitions is widely recognized as a key strategic lever for maintaining competitiveness, but while many studies have explored the general determinants of innovation, less is known about the factors that foster the development of innovation...

The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) from expert systems and fuzzy logic to sophisticated technologies such as deep learning and big data analytics has transformed modern management practices. This study explores how AI-driven management practices can effectively bridge...

The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies brings numerous opportunities andchallenges to business innovation. Understanding how firms can leverage AI technologies to create business value, propose responsible solutions to social problems, and achieve sustainable development has...

Most firms aspire to longevity, yet only a minority survive more than their initial years. Unsurprisingly, then, business survival has long attracted the interest of many academics. The various factors thought to influence business longevity have generated multiple studies on ownership status,...

As China's economic restructuring and industrial upgrading advances, hard technology innovation has become a critical driving force for promoting industrial transformation and enhancing corporate market competitiveness. This study focuses on semiconductor listed enterprises from the Shanghai and...

The deep integration of the digital and real economies provides technological empowerment and strategic support for the innovative development of enterprises in China. This study employs the Latent Dirichlet Allocation model to quantify the balance of ambidextrous innovation by analyzing the...

Green innovation serves as a pivotal approach to address environmental challenges and drive sustainable economic development. Using a sample of companies listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share markets from 2003 to 2024, this study empirically examines how conglomerates affect corporate...

This study investigates how entrepreneurial orientation (EO) influences firm performance, focusing on both environmental and financial performance. Drawing on the resource-based view (RBV) and knowledge-based view (KBV), the study develops an integrative framework in which green product and...

Digitization has reshaped corporate innovation. However, few studies have explored how companies can fully incentivize their human capital in the digital transformation process to improve innovation capabilities. To address this gap, this study proposes a configurational framework that...

This study examines how six different competencies or soft skills (leadership, critical thinking, teamwork, communication, resilience, and problem-solving) contribute to innovation in the workplace. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was used to analyze a sample of 125...

This study investigates how generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) transforms collaborative innovation by serving not only as a productivity tool but also as a cognitive partner in workplace problem-solving. Drawing on Piaget's theory of assimilation and accommodation, we propose that the...

Firms are facing a substantial challenge in their journey towards a twin transformation to achieve greater environmental sustainability and digitalization simultaneously. Research lacks a deeper understanding on how firms respond to the need for a twin transformation. This study examines...

We constructed an urban fintech index and analyzed data from 2834 publicly traded Chinese enterprises for the period 2010-2022 to investigate the impact of fintech on the innovation quality of enterprises. The findings indicate that this impact is positively reinforced by the innovation...