Knowledge convergence and organization innovation: the moderating role of relational embeddedness

Psychological Contracts and Employee Innovative Behaviours: A Moderated Mediation Effect Model

“…Embeddedness in organizational innovation activities is a cooperative network formed by the cooperative relationship among members [15]. Relational embeddedness is not only an external factor that influences innovation activities but also a situational factor that influences innovation behaviour by changing the role characteristics within the organization [16]. However, when explaining the relationship between psychological contract and innovative behaviour, scholars ignore relationship embeddedness.…”

A look at the focus shift in innovation literature due to Covid-19 pandemic

“…Many process industry firms still face challenges for process innovations, but digitalization and Industry 4.0, technologies show great potential from a technological perspective and promise to provide novel opportunities to industrial firms ( Chirumalla, 2021 ). In terms of organization innovation, it could be embedded in collaborative networks formed by cooperative relationships between partners, and collaborative relational features, such as diversity and strength, which reflect the distribution of a collaborative network, are important factors for organization innovation ( Liu et al, 2020 ). Marketing innovation involves the implementation of new marketing methods that involve significant changes in product packaging, placement, or pricing to market a product, but does not invoke any changes in the core product, and marketing managers expect marketing innovation to positively affect firm value ( Tang et al, 2021 ).…”

When and how scientists influence technological performance: A moderated mediation model

“…We measure a team’s technological performance in two ways: invention quantity and quality. First, we calculated invention quantity based on the counts of a team’s successful patent applications in period t. Second, previous research demonstrates that forward citations are particularly relevant for measuring the influence of the focal patent on subsequent inventions [ 4 , 31 , 45 , 46 ]. Thus, we calculated invention quality using the average citation of patents filed by a team.…”

“…Specifically, this was measured by calculating the number of subject categories involved in the team’s articles. International patent classification (IPC) is regarded as a good proxy of technological elements [ 31 , 46 ]. We controlled technological diversity as the number of four-digit IPC involved in the team’s patents.…”

“…Owing to the high uncertainty of scientific research [ 31 ], invention teams struggle to be rewarded in the short term, contrary to their goal of maximizing interests. Therefore, conducting extensive scientific studies becomes challenging for these teams.…”