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Firms have appointed a significant number of female chief marketing officers (CMOs) over the past decade. However, the question of how female CMOs differ from their male counterparts is yet to be explored. This research uses a multimethod approach to examine when and why female CMOs' marketing decisions differ from those of male CMOs. In Study 1, the authors use secondary data to examine the effect of CMO gender on multiple marketing decisions and find that female CMOs make less risky decisions. Further, the authors find evidence that female CMOs' risk-taking behavior is contingent on structural, organizational, and environmental factors (CEO gender, relative firm performance, and demand uncertainty). In Study 2, the authors employ the MarkStrat simulation, in which participants assume the role of CMO, to test the main finding from Study 1 in a controlled setting and provide evidence for the differential effect of gender on radical versus incremental new product introductions. In Study 3, the authors examine survey data to find evidence for the underlying mechanisms (overconfidence, failure avoidance orientation, and scrutiny) behind female CMOs' lesser risk-taking behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The key to radical innovation lies in technological breakthroughs, and the key to technical breakthroughs lies in the application of cross-domain knowledge. However, in the conceptual design stage of new product development, the designer's cognition and knowledge are limited and the retrieval and evaluation of cross-domain technologies is often subjective, making it difficult to generate radical concepts. To address the above issues, this paper proposes a method for cross-domain technology recommendation based on patent analysis. In this method, feature words in various domains of patents are used to generalise the abstract functions of product core subsystems, where designers can obtain more comprehensive cross-domain technologies. This is conducive to breaking the design fixation of designers. Subject–Action–Object structural and functional similarity are combined to quickly extract cross-domain technologies in patents. Then multiple technical indicators are used to objectively evaluate and rank cross-domain technologies. This approach helps designers objectively select cross-domain technologies to change the way next-generation products work, enabling early planning of production conditions and a head start in the market. The method has been verified in a new product development project on peeling equipment, a new product that meets radical indicators is finally obtained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the growing diversity of customer needs, little empirical evidence would guide managers to leverage customer need diversity (CND) for radical innovation. Building on the knowledge-based view and dynamic capabilities, the authors explore relationships among CND, strategic flexibility, big data analytics capabilities, and radical innovation performance. With 308 survey responses from innovation managers, the authors find that CND impacts radical innovation performance via (1) mediation through strategic flexibility and (2) moderation by volume, variety, and velocity capabilities associated with big data analytics. The moderation effects of volume and velocity capabilities are positive and negative simultaneously, depending on the purpose for which CND is utilised. Therefore, to leverage customer need diversity, firms need to build strategic flexibility and exercise caution when utilising big data analytics capabilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the effects and mechanisms of institutional forces on the relationship between path-dependent behaviours and innovation performance from an integrated framework combining path dependence and institution-based views. We first examine the effects of path-dependent behaviours, manifested as product line retention and extension, on incremental and radical innovation performance. In investigating this relationship, we join the institution-based view and propose that the effects of path-dependent behaviours are contingent on political and economic institutional forces. Using the samples of Chinese listed pharmaceutical enterprises from 2010 to 2016, we reveal that path-dependent behaviours are conducive to incremental innovation but detrimental to radical innovation. More importantly, while economic institutional forces can enhance the effects of these behaviours on both types of innovation, political institutional forces can mitigate their negative impact on radical innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Knowledge spillover via collaboration is essential to innovation, with proximity being a vital factor. Nevertheless, little consensus has been achieved on which form of proximity is more critical for innovation. Instead of reaching a definitive conclusion, we highlight the potential of addressing the argument through the lens of innovation heterogeneity. This work thus contributes to current literature by integrating two forms of innovation, radical and incremental, into the discourse of geographical and organizational proximity in knowledge spillover via collaboration. Utilizing a dataset of patents from China's listed firms between 2001 and 2017, we first categorize radical and incremental innovation according to the characteristics of knowledge combination, encompassing the familiarity of combined knowledge and maturity of combination ways. We further investigate the heterogenous effects of intra-region and intra-group knowledge spillovers, linked to geographical and organizational proximity in collaboration, on radical and incremental innovation. Empirical findings demonstrate that innovation relies on knowledge spillover both within groups and within regions. Moreover, intra-region spillover is essential for fostering radical innovation, while intra-group spillover only facilitates incremental innovation. Our findings provide both theoretical and practical implications, suggesting that multilocational enterprises should enhance their collaborator selection to leverage diverse knowledge spillovers, thereby fostering radical and incremental innovation in distinct ways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: The prevailing view in the existing literature is that open innovations (OI) increase the innovative performance of enterprises. The author examines whether the same OI practices are equally important for sole entrepreneurs, micro firms, small firms, medium-sized and large enterprises in introducing radical innovations and which set of OI practices is best for a firm, given the firm's size. Design/methodology/approach: In this study probit models were used on a sample of 915 innovative Serbian enterprises. Findings: OI is important for all enterprises introducing radical innovations. However, not all OI practices are equally effective in each enterprise size group. The set of OI practices leading to radical innovations depends on the firm size. Cooperation with others is not important for sole entrepreneurs and micro and large companies in introducing radical innovations. Still, cooperation's role is predominant in small and medium-sized enterprises. Also, certain OI practices are important for all enterprises, whilst others do not contribute to radical innovations, regardless of the firm size. Practical implications: Owners/managers can save considerably by avoiding the allocation of resources to OI practices that result in little to no contribution to radical product commercialisation. At the macroeconomic level, these findings can help policymakers create adequate (tailor-made) public policies to achieve innovation in each specific group of firms. Originality/value: This study demonstrates that not all OI practices are equally important for achieving radical production solutions in each group of enterprises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the interplay between government-level tightness-looseness, cultural tightness, innovation emphasis, and their effects on innovation outcomes in China from 2002 to 2022. Using a panel dataset of government annual reports from 31 provinces, we measured government-level tightness-looseness and innovation emphasis through computational text analysis. Our results show that government tightness consistently hindered radical innovation, while innovation emphasis negatively impacted general and incremental innovation, with no significant effect on radical innovation. The 2014 “Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation (MEI)” campaign significantly reshaped these dynamics: post-campaign, government tightness exhibited more positive effects on innovation outcomes compared to pre-campaign levels, while looseness became detrimental. Further, the study disentangles the effects of government-level and cultural tightness. Notably, misalignment between government and cultural tightness initially promoted innovation but proved detrimental post-campaign. Similarly, cultural tightness shifted from enhancing to reducing the effectiveness of innovation emphasis after MEI. Robustness tests and mediation analyses further support these findings. For policymakers, our findings underscore the importance of fostering alignment between government and cultural tightness to enhance innovation policy effectiveness, especially in the post-MEI context. This national innovation initiative established a unified innovation goal, shifting the landscape for local policy impacts. Post-MEI, rather than simply intensifying innovation emphasis, a more effective approach may involve calibrating policies to local cultural contexts and institutional conditions, especially in regions with high cultural and governmental tightness, where institutional pressures are already strong.

Exceptional innovations have recently been investigated in the literature as they may change the trajectories of field or regional development and thus impact their innovation and economic performance. However, there still lacks empirical evidence as to the impact of different types of knowledge bases on the emergence of discontinuous, breakthrough, or radical innovations. This study addresses this research gap and investigates the impact of analytical, synthetic, and symbolic knowledge bases on the share of different types of exceptional innovations in the Central European regions during the 2010–2018 period. Results indicate the positive impact of the symbolic knowledge base on the share of radical and discontinuous innovations, whereas the analytical knowledge base has a negative impact on the radical and synthetic knowledge bases – on discontinuous innovations. Contrariwise, none of the knowledge bases were relevant to the emergence of breakthrough innovations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the differences between companies that focus solely on profit maximization and those that are socially and environmentally conscious. Using ANOVA analysis on data from 120 companies, we assessed variables such as burnout, organizational learning capacity, and radical innovation. Our findings reveal that socially conscious companies tend to have employees with lower burnout levels and greater capacities for innovation and learning. Unlike previous studies that have explored the relationship between corporate social responsibility and employee outcomes separately, this paper integrates these aspects to demonstrate that prioritizing social responsibility can provide a dual benefit: enhancing both employee well-being and organizational performance. This contribution offers new insights into how socially responsible practices can lead to improved innovation and learning within organizations, thereby advancing our understanding of the strategic value of corporate social responsibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper addresses the role of incumbent firms in driving transitions that entail multiple sectors, conditioned by multiple regimes. We analyse the case 'HYBRIT', a radical innovation venture championed by three incumbents from the steel and energy regimes. We investigate what conditions the incumbents' agency and how they enacted their agency targeting restructuring of the regime elements – actors, institutions, and materiality. We find that eight endogenous and exogenous factors coincide and condition the incumbents' agency, from which they act in a novel direction of change. We contribute by showing how the collaboration within and across regimes enabled the accomplishment of actions that would have been challenging for individual incumbents to achieve alone. In this setting of scale-intensive industries, incumbents have characteristics that give them a significantly larger capacity to stimulate change than newcomers. The timing and combination of endogenous and exogenous factors, enabling incumbents to collectively drive a transition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigates the influence of ascribed and achieved political connections on corporate strategies of incremental versus radical innovation. The corporate political strategy literature maintains that while politically connected firms have access to resources controlled by the government, they also have an obligation to reciprocate for this access by fulfilling government expectations. We integrate an institutional perspective with the political strategy literature to develop the argument that ascribed political connections enhance incremental innovation because firms with these connections will tend to innovate just enough to meet government expectations. In contrast, firms with achieved political connections will tend to prefer radical innovation because these innovations help them to maintain their relationships with the government and expand their competitive advantage in the market. Furthermore, we propose that these effects depend on firms' innovation orientation, captured by the firms' technological capability, industry characteristics, and the innovation context of their geographical region. Our predictions are largely supported by analysis of a panel dataset of privately controlled, publicly listed Chinese firms during the period 2008 to 2018. Our findings reveal that the positive effect of ascribed political connections on incremental innovation is less salient when a firm has stronger technological capability, or when a firm operates in a high‐tech industry or a region with a strong innovative climate. Conversely, the positive influence of achieved political connections on radical innovation is stronger when a firm has stronger technological capability, or when a firm competes in a high‐tech industry or is located in a region with a strong innovative climate. We also discuss the important implications for firms and the government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Evidence is presented that innovation across aquaculture value chains can contribute to poverty reduction through income generation and increased consumption of nutritious aquatic foods. Innovation is defined and contextualized in relation to aquaculture development. Opportunities for aquaculture innovation across value chains for poverty reduction and sustainable production are described. Contemporary trends in aquaculture development in Bangladesh and India, with a focus on 2011-2020, are reviewed, as understanding transformative change to aquatic food systems during this period could benefit millions of poor and marginal consumers. Market-led commercial production, instigated by private sector entrepreneurs for domestic markets, has underpinned the surge in freshwater fish culture in key geographical locations. In contrast booms in shrimp production have been associated with export opportunities and related cycles of boom-and-bust have been described, with busts attributed to falling market prices and disease outbreaks. Innovation could safeguard supplies of affordable fish to poorer groups (especially young children and pregnant and breastfeeding women) and enable better health management of aquatic animals including coordination of surveillance and disease control measures. Innovation to effectively promote better management practices and integrated services provision to large numbers of small- and medium-scale producers could contribute to poverty reduction. Opportunities for future innovation to ensure that aquaculture development is sustainable are critically reviewed. Innovative strategies to add value to byproducts and utilize waste resources could avoid negative environmental impacts, recycle nutrients and create income generating opportunities. A new paradigm for development assistance that identifies and supports promising innovation trajectories across jurisdictions, product value chains, institutional regimes and food systems is needed. Government agencies must be responsive to the needs of businesses throughout aquatic food systems and devise policies and regulatory regimes that support transformative and sustained growth of the aquaculture sector. Investment in capacity-building, education, research and training and action to promote an enabling institutional environment must be regarded as essential elements to maximize and share equitably the benefits arising and avoid potential negative impacts of inappropriate innovations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Politicians and policymakers call for public sector innovation to address societal challenges and to streamline and cut costs. This results in rationales to handle both smaller and more complex types of innovation. To explore how these rationales materialize at a workplace level, this paper aims to examine perceptions of why innovation in the public sector is needed, what innovation is, and how innovation work can be conducted. The findings demonstrate difficulties in establishing an organizational purpose for innovation and translating this understanding into practice. The result is a gap between the rhetorical why and the practical what and how of innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This study aims to examine and discuss the importance and benefits of Open Innovation (OI), Transformational Leadership (TL), Innovation Strategy (IS), Creative Climate (CC), Radical Innovation (RI) and Sustainable Competitive Advantage (SCA) for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Dubai. This work also examines the mediating impact of future foresight drivers (FFD) on SMEs' SCA. The study provides a theoretical framework for enhancing SMEs' organizational performance and highlights the need for future empirical research. Design/methodology/approach: The study uses a systematic literature review (SLR) approach and a bibliometric analysis approach to collect, examine and analyze data from previous research on OI, TL, IS, CC, RI and SCA. This work evaluated 110 publications from separate scholarly databases, Scopus and Web of Science (WoS). Findings: The study finds a positive relationship between OI, TL, IS, CC, RI and SCA and that future empirical research is needed. While there is limited information on the impact of these concepts on SMEs in the Middle East and especially in Dubai, the study presents new concepts to be debated. The study provides a vital tool for businesses to improve their performance by adopting OI, TL and IS and analyzing their present competitive status to develop new strategies and build competitiveness. Originality/value: The originality of this study lies in its contribution to understanding the relationships among OI, TL, IS, CC and RI and their impact on SMEs' SCA in Dubai. By emphasizing the importance of OI, TL and IS in improving SMEs' performance and competitiveness, this study provides valuable insights for SME managers seeking to enhance their organizations' sustainability and long-term success. The review also identifies a gap in the literature regarding the impact of these concepts on SMEs in the Middle East, emphasizing the need for further research in this area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The capacity for innovation is a key component required for companies to generate added value and to expand into new markets. In this regard, it is important to find factors that improve the capacity for innovation. One such credible factor is psychological capital. This article aims to examine the influence of psychological capital on innovation capacity. An empirical study, based on data collected from 520 employees of banking institutions in Peru, was carried out to this end. Our results revealed the positive and significant influence of psychological capital on innovation capacity. Based on dimensions of psychological capital, it was found that self-efficacy and optimism positively influenced the capacity for radical innovation. Likewise, optimism and hope were found to positively influence the capacity for incremental innovation, but resilience had no positive influence on either radical innovation or incremental innovation. This work provides business leaders with a deeper understanding of psychological factors that are deemed necessary to promote and improve innovation capacity in companies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract The motivation behind this paper and the underlying research is to shed light on how companies deal with interdisciplinary innovation activities, especially looking at the development of radical and potentially disruptive innovations. This includes the analysis of methods, processes, and organizational structures applied to support interdisciplinary innovation activities as well as challenges faced. Whereas this thematic field has been widely investigated for academic institutions and, in companies on a team level, there is only a little information on industrial companies’ current state. This understanding is especially important as shortening development cycles, and technological convergence combined with intersectoral innovations might lead to increases in radical and potentially disruptive innovations and thereby create the need for improved methods and structures throughout the innovation process. To gain insights into challenges and current practices of interdisciplinary collaboration in innovation activities, semi-structured exploratory interviews were carried out with representatives from seven industrial companies. Among others, the results of the study revealed that whereas many methodologies are said to support interdisciplinary innovation activities, a wide majority of these methodologies are applied for other reasons which make supporting interdisciplinarity seem like a kind of byproduct.

The motivation behind this paper and the underlying research is to shed light on how companies deal with interdisciplinary innovation activities, especially looking at the development of radical and potentially disruptive innovations. This includes the analysis of methods, processes, and organizational structures applied to support interdisciplinary innovation activities as well as challenges faced. Whereas this thematic field has been widely investigated for academic institutions and, in companies on a team level, there is only a little information on industrial companies' current state. This understanding is especially important as shortening development cycles, and technological convergence combined with intersectoral innovations might lead to increases in radical and potentially disruptive innovations and thereby create the need for improved methods and structures throughout the innovation process. To gain insights into challenges and current practices of interdisciplinary collaboration in innovation activities, semi-structured exploratory interviews were carried out with representatives from seven industrial companies. Among others, the results of the study revealed that whereas many methodologies are said to support interdisciplinary innovation activities, a wide majority of these methodologies are applied for other reasons which make supporting interdisciplinarity seem like a kind of byproduct. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to address the issue of the contribution of both radical and incremental innovation in achieving social responsibility across its various dimensions at Condor Electronics. A questionnaire was used as the data collection tool. To achieve this, statistical analysis was conducted on data from 60 questionnaires distributed to a purposive sample of senior executives at the company. The study concludes that there is a partial contribution of innovation in general, with a significant contribution from incremental innovation, in achieving social responsibility across its different dimensions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cocreation centralizes tourists' role in creating value that results from the interaction with other destination stakeholders and the physical environment. However, the practices and procedures that motivate tourists and tourism service providers to tourism experiences have not been clearly understood. This article explores the impact of resource utilization and cocreation on tourism experience using the concepts of the resource-based view (RBV) and service-dominant logic (S‐D logic) to develop specific hypotheses about the mediating role of cocreation for resource utilization and radical and incremental innovation. The hypotheses were tested using structural equation modeling (SEM) with multisample data from tourists and service providers. The neural network model was also employed to predict the relevant ranks of significant predictors of tourism experience. The results show that cocreation significantly influences innovation in the tourism sector. Cocreation is found to mediate the relationship among resource and innovations dimensions. These results could be used to design the cocreative and innovative tourism strategies that could manage and grow tourist experience online because of its effect on brand advocacy and visitor intention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper explains the essence and importance of innovative entrepreneurship as the basis of economic development; Scientific views on innovation and entrepreneurship are systematized; The inadmissibility of using "innovation" and "invention", "innovative activity" and "innovative activity" as synonyms is shown; Classification of innovations according to object, process and intensity is given; There is a difference between the innovation cycle and the innovation life cycle; Facilitating and hindering factors for the activation of innovative activities have been identified; The stages of innovation process and innovative entrepreneurship are different from each other; The characteristics of "radical innovation" and "incremental innovation" are highlighted; Entrepreneurship is classified according to the degree of innovation: "business", "traditional entrepreneurship" and "innovative entrepreneurship. Such a separation is made only at the theoretical level, because it is impossible to do it in practice even due to the lack of statistical accounting data; It is argued that the innovative direction of entrepreneurial activity ensures the domestic and international competitiveness of business entities and the strengthening of their positions in the market; The unfavorable situation of innovative entrepreneurship in Georgia is analyzed and evaluated; Based on international and national experience, suggestions and recommendations are offered for the further improvement and development of innovative entrepreneurship in order to facilitate the economic growth and sustainable development of the country. It is necessary to have a systematic approach to the challenges in the sector of innovative entrepreneurship and to eliminate the gaps. In particular:  In order to promote innovation, research and development, first of all, it is necessary to raise awareness in enterprises about the essence and importance of innovative entrepreneurship. Because this or that idea will turn into a material force only when it takes over the consciousness of the masses;  Usually, innovations are created where and when there is a demand for them. The main problem of Georgian economy is less demand for innovations. The reason for this is the low level of economic development, unhealthy competition, tendencies of monopolization and oligopolization of the economy, insufficient industries and low technological level of production. The low innovative activity of large enterprises is related to their monopoly position;  In Georgia, due to the weak connections between science and business, the supply and demand for innovations sometimes miss each other, and in fact there is no commercialization of them. Therefore, intensive connections between scientific circles, research centers and the business sector are necessary so that the research conducted by research institutes and universities is in line with the needs of the real sector of the economy.  99.7% of enterprises in Georgia are small and medium. Small and medium-sized enterprises, due to limited financial resources, do not have the opportunity to invest in innovation, research and development, as well as in new technologies. The high cost of innovation and the lack of own funds limit the innovative activity of almost half of the existing innovators. however. Entrepreneurs who face limited resources can seek alternative sources of financing, such as government grants (a certain share of the profits from the success of innovations must also be returned to the state. This applies to innovations that were created as a result of significant investments made by the state), capital market, venture (risk) capital or financially strong partners to obtain the resources needed for innovation;  We often boast that Georgia is attractive to foreign investors because of its cheap labor force, and we forget that cheap labor force means low qualifications, low incomes, and low incomes mean low living standards and poverty. It should be emphasized that lowskilled labor force (cheap labor force) and innovations, advanced equipment and techno logies are incompatible phenomena that naturally slow down progress and the construction of a knowledge-based economy. That is why it is necessary to improve the level of competence of personnel working in the industry, retrain them and equip them with modern practical knowledge. The problem of insufficient knowledge and lack of practice can be solved by business incubators, the experience of which has already been accumulated in Georgia;  As for educational policy: imitation of existing technologies and invention of fundamentally new ones requires a different education. In the first case, the most important is secondary and applied engineering education. In the second case, fundamental science plays a much greater role. Therefore, countries at different stages of development must build their education systems accordingly;  Before creating strong scientific and research bases in Georgia, it is better to import advanced technologies, besides, it should not be excluded to implement all stages of fundamental research and idea development on the ground. In this regard, the opening of new innovation centers in higher educational institutions seems to be an effective tool.  For innovation, research and development, the infrastructure needs to be renewed, which will support the development of start-ups and small and medium-sized companies. In addition, the entrepreneur, in addition to the idea, should be able to produce an innovative product as quickly and efficiently as possible, as well as to sell it;  In Georgia, the status of innovative startup should be determined by law, and companies with this status should be exempted from income and profit taxes for three years. Also, it is necessary to have preferential credit and tax government programs for innovative projects;  It is necessary to take into account the specific indicators for which data cannot be collected to date. It is important to deepen cooperation with the mentioned sources and update outdated data;  It is necessary to improve the legal and regulatory framework of intellectual property protection. Intellectual property protection is very important in innovative entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs should consider obtaining patents, trademarks or copyrights to protect their innovative ideas, products or technologies. Seeking legal advice and implementing strict privacy measures can help entrepreneurs protect against intellectual property theft; Finally, Georgia's economy needs to develop sustainably to meet the needs of current generations without compromising its ability to meet the needs of future generations through resource depletion and environmental degradation. Sustainability and innovation business practices are closely linked. Innovative entrepreneurs can find green solutions, reduce waste, and contribute to a more sustainable future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Overview: As novel technologies and organizational practices become available, innovation managers must identify and invest in those best suiting their needs. To ensure their firm's innovativeness, innovation managers must integrate these new technologies and organizational practices into their resource portfolio and deploy them in combination with existing resources. In this article, we demonstrate the orchestration of technologies and practices that set the most innovative firms apart from less innovative. Using the fsQCA method, we found that high-performing firms configure their technological resources and organizational capabilities in bundles, whereas their less innovative counterparts are preoccupied with investing in technologies alone. Resource orchestration management is therefore a novel innovation management capability, which may accelerate a firm's innovative capabilities. We offer practitioners managerial implications that emphasize the development of innovation managers' resource orchestration capabilities. Innovation managers should learn how to do resource orchestration effectively, which requires developing deep insights into emerging technologies and understanding the varieties and nuances in organizational practices. The most innovative firms not only invest in new technologies but also in organizational practices that promote employee creativity, engagement, and task-specific skills. Various combinations of technological and organizational innovations can lead a company to achieve product innovations with high degrees of novelty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research background: Despite the increased interest in business model innovation (BMI) in the last 20 years, the current research landscape still lacks empirical efforts aimed at investigating the underexplored link between BMI and innovation performance. This is doubly true in specific contexts like Central European countries, whereas innovation systems are weaker than in Western ones, and firms strongly depend on internal R&D activities and absorptive capacity and technology upgrades via cooperation with other countries. Purpose of the article: This study draws on the BMI theory with the aim of analyzing the effects of each individual BMI element on firms’ performance in terms of creation of radical innovations vs incremental ones. Methods: The data used are from the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) 2018 — the latest micro data available to date — focusing on 16,364 firms in Central Europe, namely 5,749 Czech, 7,377 Hungarian, and 3,238 Slovakian firms. As the explained (dependent) variables are dichotomous (binary: 1 indicates the answer is yes, 0 indicates the answer is no) for all estimated models, a binary logistic regression is used in order to focus on the individual elements representing BMI and analyse their separated effects on firms’ creation of radical and incremental innovations in Central Europe. Individual BMI elements are: BMI methods, logistics, communication, accounting, external relations, human resource management, and marketing. Moreover, we check for control variables such as tax credits and allowances of R&D, public funding of innovation, cooperation with other organizations on R&D or other activities, in-house R&D activities and contracted out ones, lack of finance, lack of skilled employees and internal financial resources, and size. Findings & value added: For radical innovators, practices for organising procedures and external relations are important. For incremental innovators, methods of organising work responsibility, decision making, and human resource management are significant. Surprisingly, regardless of the innovation radicality, several BMI elements are significant. This study suggests that managers should enhance strategic collaborations with external partners out of Central Europe, exploit their absorptive capacity, and increase the knowledge and experience of their employees, whilst policymakers should keep on providing tax credits and allowances for innovation activities, maintaining a supportive infrastructure and reducing administrative burdens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Innovation is critical for organizations seeking to build and maintain a sustainable advantage in the competitive market. This study aims to construct a moderated mediation model to examine the effects of incremental and radical innovations on competitive advantage, which considers the mediating role of innovation speed and the moderating role of a supportive culture. Data from 201 Chinese firms were collected through questionnaires and the research hypotheses were tested using multiple regression analysis and bootstrapping techniques. The empirical results show that incremental and radical innovations have a significant positive effect on competitive advantage. Radical innovation has a greater impact on competitive advantage compared to incremental innovation. Innovation speed mediates the relationship between incremental and radical innovations and competitive advantage. Supportive culture positively moderates the relationship between incremental and radical innovations and innovation speed. Moreover, supportive culture positively moderates the conditional indirect effect of incremental and radical innovation on competitive advantage through innovation speed. Theoretical and practical implications are further discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Assessing the effectiveness of radical and incremental innovation in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Eastern European countries is a significant issue in regional economics. In contrast, radical innovation entails the creation of wholly novel goods or organization processes that establish new markets. Progressive enhancements to current goods and processes are referred to as incremental innovation. This study explains the influence of incremental and radical innovation on the performance of SMEs in Eastern Europe. Employing EUROSTAT data from 2012 to 2021 and using regression analysis and a graphical model, the examines basic, radical, and incremental innovation and total researcher performance in SMEs, which could enormously affect business performance in Eastern European countries. Our findings indicate that radical, incremental innovation, and total research are all favorably related to the performance of SMEs and an approach to studying various innovations and their impact on SMEs. The particular performance effects of radical and incremental innovations in Eastern European SMEs might vary considerably, and empirical investigations and comprehensive research are required to provide more specific knowledge and suggestions for them. Our results can contribute to SMEs both theoretically and practically, providing fresh theoretical perspectives for scholars and helpful management consequences for administrators of SMEs in developing countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Innovativeness and performance are keys to understanding the capability of SMEs. However, scant research examines the motivational frames that enhance behaviors, such as innovation, in SMEs. Regulatory focus theory provides the lens through which to we examined how SME owner motivation impacts innovation and firm performance, given that the SME owner primarily displays either a promotion or prevention focus. As such, we hypothesize the moderating effects of dominant regulatory foci radical on the relationship between innovation and SME performance. Based on a sample of 422 small business owners, we find a positive and significant direct relationship between both incremental and radical innovation on performance. Further, we report that prevention focus heightens the positive relationship between incremental innovation and performance, while radical innovation negatively impacts the relationship between radical innovation and performance; thus, highlighting the critical nature of strategic alignment that exists between regulatory focus strategy, innovation type and performance outcomes. This study brings the entrepreneur back into focus for small business research and investigates the intersection of firm-level and individual-level units of analyses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]