Innovation attributes and managers' decisions about the adoption of innovations in organizations: A meta-analytical review

Vagnani, Gianluca; Volpe, Loredana

doi:10.1016/j.ijis.2017.10.001

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“…Besides the direct resources-performance linkage, there could also be an indirect resources-performance, where proactive behavior affects performance through its impact on innovation capability. The superior performance of proactive innovation is consistent with empirical studies of the proactive export adaptation by Sibanda et al [60] and the innovation strategy by Akhlagh et al [61] and Vagnani and Volpe [62].…”

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confidence: 86%

“…Akhlag et al [61] argued that proactive risk-taking strategies are the most effective innovation strategies if firms decide to heighten their performance. On the other hand, Vagnani and Volpe [62] found that a reactive innovation due to pressures stemming from the environment tends to lead to underperformance. In short, it emerges that proactive business strategies are more likely to lead to better business performance.…”

Section: Proactive Technological Innovation and Firm Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

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Firm Constraints on the Link between Proactive Innovation, Open Innovation and Firm Performance

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Khanh

2019

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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This study aims to examine the impacts of firm constraints and proactive innovation on firm performance, using a sample of 3504 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Vietnam from 2011–2015. Our findings suggest that technological innovations in general are beneficial to firm performance, increasing firm sales and profits. Further filtering innovations into two categories of proactive and reactive ones, we find that reactive innovation negatively affects firm performance, consistent with the view that proactive entrepreneurial behavior is a highly sought-after characteristic or a valuable resource for a firm as specified in resources-based theory. Finally, our result implies that if firms have low constraint or have sufficient resources, proactive strategies should be the choice if firms seek to improve their performance.

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Section: Proactive Technological Innovation and Firm Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

Firm Constraints on the Link between Proactive Innovation, Open Innovation and Firm Performance

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Khương

Khanh

2019

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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“…Observability refers to the visibility of the processes and results of adopting a new sustainable technology (Vagnani and Volpe, 2017). The processes of using a technology that are highly visible encourage vicarious learning which allows employees to observe and learn from others.…”

Section: Innovation Diffusion Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

A theory-driven identification and ranking of the critical success factors of sustainable shipping management

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Yuen

et al. 2020

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Sustainable shipping management is arguably the most challenging issue that shipping companies faced for the coming years. Hence, examining the critical success factors of sustainable shipping management is vital. Although previous research mainly focused on the motives and implication of sustainable shipping management, practical research that proposes how sustainable shipping management can be implemented is still lacking. Therefore, this study fills the gap by identifying and ranking the critical success factors of sustainable shipping management with a theory-driven approach. The critical success factors were developed through the theoretical lenses of five organisational theories, namely, stakeholder theory, resource-based view theory, relational-view theory, innovation diffusion theory, and contingency (fit) theory. Based on these theories, this study proposes stakeholders' focus, intra-firm management, interfirm collaboration, new technology acceptance, and strategic fit as the critical success factors of sustainable shipping management. Further, 20 sub-criteria were identified to operationalise the critical success factors. A survey questionnaire was pretested and then administered to 36 shipping companies in Vietnam. Thereafter, the obtained data was analysed using fuzzy analytic hierarchy process. The findings show that the critical success factors of sustainable shipping management, in descending order of their importance with their respective local weights, are (1) stakeholders' focus (0.298), (2) intra-firm management (0.248), (3) new technology acceptance (0.156), (4) inter-firm collaboration (0.154), and (5) strategic fit (0.143). Moreover, results of this study show that among the sub-criteria of sustainable shipping management, the most important ones are primarily related to monetary resources and tangible infrastructures and equipment. Additionally, sustainable shipping management implementation in shipping companies can be improved by addressing the needs of stakeholders and aligning sustainable shipping management activities with shipping companies' strategies. By evaluating the critical success factors, this study contributes to theory by holistically identifying and reviewing five theoretical frameworks that can enhance sustainable shipping management. This research also contributes to practice by contextualising and operationalising these theories into meaningful criteria and sub-criteria for shipping companies to implement sustainable shipping management. Consequently, it addresses the question of how sustainable shipping management should be implemented to maximise a shipping company's sustainability performance.

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“…One of the challenges is that there is still a limited understanding of the behavior of decision-makers in the firms that are built from reciprocal communication on a regular, timely, adequate and accurate basis (Bstieler 2015). Decision-makers play an important role in the process of innovations adoption in the firms (Vagnani andVolpe 2017, Damanpour andSchneider 2009). Decision-makers in the firms are agents who have the authority of shareholders as the principal to maximize profits, including in the decision to adopt innovations that can encourage the achievement of the firm's competitive advantage (Jensen andMeckling 1976, Porter 1985).…”

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“…Several factors in decision making of innovations adoption influence decision-makers behavior, such as attributes of innovation, social networks of decision-makers, decision-making criteria, the hierarchy of decision-makers and the characteristics of decision-makers (Kimberly and Evanisko 1981, Miller and Friesen 1984, Meyer and Goes 1988, Damanpour and Schneider 2009, Vagnani and Volpe 2017, Urquhart et al 2019. Although some factors have been investigated as moderating variables on the relationship between decision-makers behavioral preferences and innovations adoption, such as the hierarchy of decision-makers and firm size (Vagnani and Volpe 2017), yet there is no empirical research that employing ownership of the firms, size of the firms, the status of the firms and collaboration experience with the university at the same time as a moderating variable on the relationship of decisionmakers behavioral preferences and adoption of innovation from the university. This research has become important to increase understanding of decision-makers behavioral preferences towards innovations adoption to support the success of the future university and industry collaboration.…”

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The Effect of Firm Characteristics and Collaboration Experience on the Relationship Between Decision-Makers Behavioral Preferences and University’s Innovations Adoption

Kuntadi

Sumarwan

Najib

et al. 2020

JAM

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This study aims to determine the effect of moderator variables on the relationship between decision-makers behavioral preferences and innovation adoption. Moderator variables are collaboration experience with university and firm characteristics such as ownership of the firm, size of the firm, and status of the firm. There is still a limited understanding of decision-makers behavioral preferences in the adoption of innovations from university, even though this understanding is needed to enhance the success of university and industry collaboration. This study explores several moderator variables that have not been previously studied together before on the relationship between decision-makers behavioral preferences and innovation adoption. This study distributes questionnaires to 365 respondents who are decision-makers of food and beverage firms in Jakarta and surrounding areas. Quantitative analysis of SEM data was carried out with LISREL. The results showed that decision-makers behavior preferences have a significant relationship with innovations adoption and only the status of the firm and collaboration experience with university influence the relationship between decision-makers behavioral preferences and innovations adoption. The results of this study reflect that some moderator variables have a significant effect on the relationship between decision-makers behavioral preferences and innovations adoption. Future research may employ other moderator variables such as government regulations to find out its influence on the adoption of innovation from the university.

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Innovation attributes and managers' decisions about the adoption of innovations in organizations: A meta-analytical review

Cited by 57 publications

References 165 publications

Firm Constraints on the Link between Proactive Innovation, Open Innovation and Firm Performance

Firm Constraints on the Link between Proactive Innovation, Open Innovation and Firm Performance

A theory-driven identification and ranking of the critical success factors of sustainable shipping management

The Effect of Firm Characteristics and Collaboration Experience on the Relationship Between Decision-Makers Behavioral Preferences and University’s Innovations Adoption

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