About the determinants of the degree of novelty in small businesses’ product innovations

Martínez-Román, Juan A.; Romero, Isidoro

doi:10.1007/s11365-013-0269-0

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“…Several studies report on the value of monetary (tangible) rewarding and non-monetary (intangible) rewarding as motivation factors for contribution [45]. Although the studies were conducted in different scenes such as open innovation communities [46], healthcare [47] or product development [48], they all recognize the impact of compensation on motivation to initiate weather financially or psychologically. We reaffirm this understanding with evidence of effective innovation process in a production and manufacturing environment where the innovators are compensated with intangible rewards and are still motivated to continue contribute to the organization due to recognition and personal supporting attitude by top management.…”

Section: Analysis and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Leadership to Creativity and Management of Innovation? The Case of the “Innovation Club” in a Production Company

Holzmann¹,

Golan²

2016

AJIBM

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In the current era of ongoing dynamic business developments and advancements, any company that wishes to succeed needs to sustain an innovative culture in order to keep its position in the front line of competition. However, being creative and innovative in a production and manufacturing environment is challenging due to the organizational characteristics derive from a hierarchical structure in which systematic procedures are strictly followed. In this paper, we present a model for creating a sustainable culture of creativity and innovation in a manufacturing organization and we demonstrate the use of this model in a leading production company in the defense industry. The model explains the initiation phase that motivates employees to explore new opportunities and the maintenance phase that forms a sustainable infrastructure, which are integrated into a coherent foundation for continuous improvement and excellence. The case study describes how the model was implemented in the production company and reviews the major barriers the management faced in the process of implementing a culture of innovation. We discuss the actions taken to create a supportable infrastructure to promote innovative behavior by employees and managers and analyze different aspects of innovation strategy. We conclude with reporting the results of implementing this model in the case company and with recommendations for other manufacturing and production companies aspire to be innovative.

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Section: Analysis and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Leadership to Creativity and Management of Innovation? The Case of the “Innovation Club” in a Production Company

Holzmann¹,

Golan²

2016

AJIBM

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“…Finally, public policies on innovation for small businesses must consider the innovation profile of such businesses (Bajmócy & Gébert, 2014). As the innovative development is part of the dayto-day of small businesses, most of the innovations in such environments are generated according to the enterprises' own perspectives (Forsman, 2008(Forsman, , 2009Hirsch-Kreinsen, 2008;Martínez-Román, & Romero, 2013). Therefore, R&D or financial indicators do not reflect the typical innovative activities of the small enterprise (Crossan & Apaydin, 2010;De Jong & Marsili, 2006;Santamaría et al, 2009).…”

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Public Policies on Innovation and Small Businesses in a Swinging Economy

Silva

Sério

Bezerra

2019

BAR, Braz. Adm. Rev.

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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the adequacy of public policies that support innovation in small businesses in a swinging economy, particularly in Brazil. 1 In order to make our case for more adequate public policies on innovation, we develop five propositions based on the assumption that innovation policies focused on fostering socioeconomic development should meet. We adopted a documentary research design, as we examined the policies produced by governmental bodies and agencies at the three governmental levels in Brazil-federation, states, and cities. Also, qualitative content analysis was performed in order to organize, codify and interpret the messages delivered by current innovation policies in the country. We found that most public policies on innovation and small businesses are shortsighted and generalist, borrowing metrics and evaluation criteria from the big enterprise context in an one-size-fits-all manner that, ultimately, cannot be applied to most small businesses and local contexts. As a contribution to theory, our five propositions could be used as starting points for future policy and administration research. On a practical level, we propose recommendations to policy-makers and offer insights on how an adequate policy affects a country's competitiveness and socioeconomic development.

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“…The issue of factors affecting the SMEs´ innovative activity was further searched by authors Martínez-Román and Romero (2013;2017). They revealed that the entrepreneur´s motivation represents an important influential factor of innovativeness.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Besides motivation, authors state that leadership capacity and risk-taking represent other psychological features of entrepreneurs influencing innovative behavior. There were mentioned two levels of factors affecting innovativeness: the personal characteristics of the entrepreneurs (age, motivations, educational background, and degree of interpersonal trust) and the characteristics of the organizations' management cooperation, risk taking, proactivity, and specific innovation and growth policies in Martínez-Román and Romero (2013).…”

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Attitude toward innovativeness based on personality traits in the SME sector. Czech Republic case study

Kozubíková

Čepel

Zlámalová

2018

Management &Amp; Marketing

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The research of personality characteristics of small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) entrepreneurs in relation to EO constructs is an important part of the research of the whole entrepreneurial environment of small and medium-sized enterprises. The aim of this paper is to search for a relationship between personality traits and the attitude toward innovativeness as a construct of EO of SME entrepreneurs in the Czech Republic based on their sociodemographic factors (gender, education, and age). Results from a questionnaire-based survey of the entrepreneurial environment of SME in the Czech Republic showed that the attitude toward innovativeness differed for entrepreneurs considering perseverance and responsibility to be important for entrepreneurship based on their education level. Entrepreneurs with secondary education or secondary educated with graduation were more confident about the reputation of their business as an innovator than university educated entrepreneurs.

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About the determinants of the degree of novelty in small businesses’ product innovations

Cited by 31 publications

References 77 publications

Leadership to Creativity and Management of Innovation? The Case of the “Innovation Club” in a Production Company

Leadership to Creativity and Management of Innovation? The Case of the “Innovation Club” in a Production Company

Public Policies on Innovation and Small Businesses in a Swinging Economy

Attitude toward innovativeness based on personality traits in the SME sector. Czech Republic case study

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