Journal articles: 'Firm-level innovation'

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İzadi, Ali, Ferial Zarrabi, and Farinoosh Zarrabi. "Firm-Level Innovation Models." Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 75 (April 2013): 146–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.04.017.

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Demircioglu, Mehmet Akif, David B. Audretsch, and Timothy F. Slaper. "Sources of innovation and innovation type: firm-level evidence from the United States." Industrial and Corporate Change 28, no. 6 (March 15, 2019): 1365–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtz010.

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Abstract Only a handful of studies on innovation empirically analyze the links between firm innovation and the sources of that innovative activity of sources of innovation on types of innovation. To fill this gap in the literature, this study provides one of the first tests to identify how important sources of new information (suppliers, customers, other business people in the industry, workers, and university) are associated with types of innovations (product, process, and marketing). Data come from the 2014 National Survey of Business Competitiveness sponsored by the Economic Research Service at the United States Department of Agriculture (n = 10,952). The results show that innovation ideas emanating from customers, workers, and universities are positively associated with all types of innovations, suggesting that these sources are critical for developing different types of innovation. In particular, universities as a source of innovation activity are especially important. In contrast, other sources, such as suppliers and people in industry do not seem to be as important as a source of innovation.

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Tuan, Nham, Nguyen Nhan, Pham Giang, and Nguyen Ngoc. "The effects of innovation on firm performance of supporting industries in Hanoi, Vietnam." Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management 9, no. 2 (April 29, 2016): 413. http://dx.doi.org/10.3926/jiem.1564.

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Purpose: Innovation, including product, process, marketing, and organizational innovation within a firm, is considered as one of essential component for surviving and growing. These innovation activities create value and competitive advantages for successful organizations; therefore, understanding the organization’s overall innovation is the first and foremost to understand the role of innovation on firm performance. The objective of this research is to explore two parts: the impacts of innovation on the different aspect of innovation performance, then their effects to firm performance (production, market, and financial performance).Design/methodology/approach: This study uses primary data from questionnaire survey. The questionnaire involves 4 parts including general information, innovation activities; innovative performance, and firm performance. This research focuses on firms in supporting industries of mechanics, electronics, motorbike and automobile. These firms are in a list of companies (known as The Excellent Vietnamese Companies in Northern and Central Vietnam) established by JETRO and VCCI. There are 150 firms in this list. The questionnaire survey was administered to directors, CEO of those firms during April and May, 2014. Out of the 150 questionnaires sent out, 118 were valid, accounting for 78.7% of the true response rate. Analysis methodologies of reliability, factor analysis and regression are utilized in this paper.Findings: The result demonstrated there are positive effects of process, marketing, and organizational innovations on firm performance in supporting firms. More specifically, the higher the level of innovation activities is, the greater the innovative performance is, which means the larger level of Process, organization and marketing innovation activities are, the higher level of innovative performance are likely to be. Secondly, the higher level of Process, organization and marketing innovative performance, the better level of firm performances is likely to be. To sum up, in order to improve the innovative and firm performance, those firms in supporting industry should highly concentrate on process, marketing, and organizational innovation activities, rather than product innovation activities.Originality/value: Initially, this study applies successfully the model which supposing innovation is a process, then clarifying innovation definition through the impact of innovation activities on innovative performances. Secondly, this research confirmed the positive impact of innovative performances on firm performances. It provided one more empirical evidence of the relationship between innovation and firm performance. For practitioners, organizational innovation and process innovation are more important factors affecting innovative performance and firm performance than product and marketing innovation. Therefore, enterprises should focus and mobilize resources to create improvement in organizational structure and manufacturing processes.

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TORUGSA, NUTTANEEYA (ANN), and WAYNE O’DONOHUE. "MANAGING KNOWLEDGE-RELATED BARRIERS TO TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION THROUGH EXPLOITATIVE AND EXPLORATIVE ORGANISATIONAL STRATEGIES." International Journal of Innovation Management 23, no. 04 (May 2019): 1950035. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s136391961950035x.

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This study uses data from a sample of 31,948 European innovating firms to examine the impact that knowledge-related barriers to technological innovation have on the link between the level of such innovation and firm performance, and, to investigate the role of “exploitative” and “explorative” organisational strategies in moderating such impact. Exploitative strategies are measured by the level of organisational innovations, and exploratory strategies are measured by the level of methods for fostering workplace creativity. Using moderated hierarchical regression, the results reveal a negative effect of the interaction between technological innovation and related knowledge constraints on firm performance. They also reveal that the negative interaction effect becomes positive at high levels of organisational innovations and creativity-fostering methods. The study findings thus indicate the need for managers of technologically innovative firms to implement both exploitative and explorative organisational strategies. Doing so could help minimise the negative effects of knowledge-related barriers to technological innovation, and in turn promote innovation-based competitiveness and business success.

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Wadho, Waqar, and Azam Chaudhry. "Innovation in the Textiles Sector: A Firm-Level Analysis of Technological and Nontechnological Innovation." LAHORE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS 21, Special Edition (September 1, 2016): 129–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.35536/lje.2016.v21.isp.a6.

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In a knowledge-based economy, it has become increasingly important to better understand critical aspects of the innovation process such as innovation activities beyond R&D, the interaction among different actors in the market and the relevant knowledge flows. Using a sample of 431 textiles and apparel manufacturers, this paper explores the dynamics of firms’ innovation activities by analyzing their innovation behavior, the extent and types of innovation, the resources devoted to innovation, sources of knowledge spillovers, the factors hampering technological innovation and the returns to innovation for three years, 2013–15. Our results show that 56 percent of the surveyed firms introduced technological and/or nontechnological innovations, while 38 percent introduced new products, these innovations were generally incremental as the majority of innovations were new only to the firm. Furthermore, the innovation rate increases with firm size; large firms have an innovation rate of 83 percent, followed by medium firms (68 percent) and small firms (39 percent). Technologically innovative firms spent, on average, 10 percent of their turnover on innovation expenditure in 2015. Acquisition of machinery and equipment is the main innovation activity, accounting for 56 percent of innovation expenditures. Large firms consider foreign market sources (clients and suppliers) and small firms consider local market sources their key source of information and cooperation. 63 percent of technological innovators cite improving the quality of goods as their most important objective. Lack of available funds within the enterprise is the single most important cost factor hampering innovation, followed by the high cost of innovation. Our results show that 67 percent of the turnover among product innovators in 2015 resulted from product innovations that were either new to the market or new to the firm.

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Weerawardena, Jay. "Innovation in Queensland Firms: Implications for the Smart State." Queensland Review 10, no. 1 (May 2003): 89–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1321816600002543.

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The challenges in the business environment are forcing Australian firms to be innovative in all their efforts to serve customers. Reflecting this need there have been several innovation policy statements both at Federal and State government level aimed at encouraging innovation in Australian industry. In particular, the innovation policy statement launched by the Queensland government in the year 2000 primarily intends building a Smart State through innovation. During the last few decades the Australian government policy on innovation has emphasized support for industry R&D. However industry stakeholders demand a more firm-focused policy of innovation. Government efforts in this direction have been hindered by a lack of a consistent body of knowledge on innovation at the firm level. In particular the Australian literature focusing on firm level antecedents of innovation is limited and fragmented. This study examines the role of learning capabilities in innovation and competitive advantage. Based on a survey of manufacturing firms in Queensland the study finds that both technological and non-technological innovations lead to competitive advantage. The findings contribute to the theory competitive advantage and firm level antecedents of innovation. Implications for firm level innovation strategies and behaviour are discussed. In addition, the findings have important implications for Queensland government's current initiatives to build a Smart State through innovation.

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Zaibet, Lokman, Mazin Al Siyabi, Houcine Boughanmi, Ibtisam Al Abri, and Shaikha Al Akhzami. "Doing Business in the COMESA Region: The Role of Innovation and Trade Facilitation." Perspectives on Global Development and Technology 21, no. 2 (September 9, 2022): 169–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15691497-12341623.

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Abstract Developing oil-dependent countries, like Oman, have growing potentials to broaden their export base aside from the hydrocarbon sector, thus enhancing economic growth. The article aims to identify factors to enhance Oman non-oil exports to the COMESA countries with a focus on innovations and trade facilitation. At the macro level, the article uses country trade data to explore the determinants of trade. At the firm level, the focus is on firm export behavior and innovation. Results show the key role of trade facilitation and firm-level innovations in particular at the commodity level. Innovation is significant and positive for commodities like vegetables, plastic, hides, stone, glass, and machinery. Government’s policies to boost exports and enhance economic growth should be geared to reducing market risks facing exporting firms as well as rewarding innovative companies through better innovation-targeted policies.

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Berhan, Eshetie, and Shimelis Tilahun. "Modelling Firm-level Innovation Value Chain." International Journal of Business Innovation and Research 1, no. 1 (2021): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijbir.2021.10044611.

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Sanchez, Carol M. "Environmental Regulation and Firm Level Innovation." Business & Society 36, no. 2 (June 1997): 140–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000765039703600203.

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Daniel, Elizabeth, and Neil Tomkin. "Firm-Level Benefits of Radical Innovation." Journal of General Management 24, no. 4 (June 1999): 38–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030630709902400403.

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DURMAZ, Cemil Faruk, and Burcu DÜZGÜN ÖNCEL. "Ürün Yenilik Stratejileri: Firma Düzeyi Analizi." Yildiz Social Science Review 8, no. 1 (July 21, 2022): 66–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.51803/yssr.1146881.

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In this study, we examine the association between firms’ innovation process and their product quality improvement and new product introduction strategies. Our focus is on the distinction between firms’ product quality improvement and variety extension objectives. We use data from Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT) Innovation Survey between the years 2014 and 2016. According to the descriptive results, number of firms report that product quality as very important is greater than the firms report that product variety. Logit estimations results show that majority of the product variety objective and technology level indicators are significant and positively related with probability of product innovation. There is also a positive relationship between probability of product innovation and patent applications for small and medium sized firms. Moreover, probability of innovation is positively related with variety objective whereas quality objective indicators are insignificant.

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Cieślik, Andrzej, and Jan Jakub Michałek. "Process and product innovations, multi-product status and export performance: firm-level evidence from V–4 countries." Equilibrium 13, no. 2 (June 30, 2018): 233–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.24136/eq.2018.012.

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Research background: In this paper, we study empirically the relationship between different forms of innovations, multi-product status and export performance of firms from four Visegrad countries. We treat innovations as the key element that can increase the level of firm productivity. Purpose of the article: The main objective is to analyze the empirical relationship between different firms of innovation of firms from Visegrad countries and their export performance. In contrast to previous studies that use R&D spending as a measure of innovation, we rather relay on innovation outcomes. Our detailed hypotheses postulate the existence of positive relationships between firm export performance and different forms of innovation. We seek to determine which type of innovation activity is of the greatest importance for exporting and whether it depends on firm size, the level of internationalization, the use of human capital and its sector of activity. In addition, we control for the multi-product status of firms, i.e. whether they sell one or many products. Methods: The measures of innovative activity of companies include both spending on R&D as well as its effects, such as product and process innovations. In addition, we control for the multi-product status measured by the share of the main product in total sales of the firm, as well as for other firm-level characteristics. The empirical implementation of the theoretical framework is based on the probit models, applied to the fifth edition of BEEPS firm level data set covering the period 2011–2014. Findings & Value added: Our results indicate that the probability of exporting is positively related to both product and process innovations and the multi-product status. In addition, we find that the probability of exporting is related to the set of control variables including labor productivity, firm size, the share of university graduates in productive employment, foreign capital participation and the use of foreign licenses.

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Findik, Derya, and Berna Beyhan. "A Perceptual Measure of Innovation Performance: Firm-Level Evidence from Turkey." International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management 14, no. 06 (November 9, 2017): 1750038. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219877017500389.

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This paper aims to introduce a qualitative indicator to measure innovation performance of Turkish firms by using firm-level data collected by Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT) in 2008 and 2009. We propose a new indicator to measure the innovation performance which is simply based on the perception of firms regarding to the impacts of innovation. In order to create performance indicators, we conduct a factor analysis to group the firms’ perceptions on the impacts of innovation. Factor analysis gives us product and process-oriented impacts of innovation. There are significant differences among product innovators, process innovators and firms engaged in both product and process innovations with respect to their perceptions on product and process-oriented impacts of innovation. Among these three groups, product- and process-oriented impacts provide a highest value for the firms that perform both product and process innovations. As far as the link between firm characteristics and the impact of innovation is considered, there is a significant difference between small and large firms with respect to their perceptions on product-oriented impact of innovation. While product-oriented impact is larger for small firms, large firms focus more on process-oriented impact. Anova results also indicate that perceptions on process-oriented impact significantly differ among exporter firms, domestic market-oriented firms and firms being active in internal and external markets. Process-oriented impact generates results in favor of exporting firms.

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Doloreux, David, and Luisa Kraft. "A Taxonomy of Eco-Innovation Types in SMEs: Exploring Different Firm Profiles in the Canadian Wine Industry." Sustainability 11, no. 20 (October 18, 2019): 5776. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11205776.

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The paper examines eco-innovation strategies in the Canadian wine industry. It uses firm-level data of 151 wine firms that developed eco-innovations between 2015 and 2017 to build a taxonomy of four eco-innovation strategies: (i) eco-innovation laggers, (ii) product-oriented eco-innovators, (iii) process-oriented eco-innovators, and (iv) fully integrated eco-innovators. We then characterize these eco-innovation strategies with respect to firm-level innovation capabilities, firms’ knowledge openness, and firms’ specific characteristics. The results reveal heterogeneity in eco-innovation strategies and show that these strategies exhibit different configurations of innovation-related conditions and firm characteristics.

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Ahmad, Bashir, and Mehmet Erçek. "Linking national business system and firm level innovation." European Journal of Innovation Management 23, no. 5 (October 16, 2019): 765–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ejim-01-2019-0016.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explain the link between national business system (NBS) and innovation decisions at the firm level by offering sequentially ordered sense-making mechanisms that enable the formation of firm-specific knowledge repositories and knowledge-processing capabilities. Design/methodology/approach This study engages in an extensive scale development effort to collect representative data about the NBS in the Pakistani setting, complemented by relevant validity and reliability tests. The overall theoretical model was tested on 214 firms by means of a structural equation modeling approach, using partial least-squares algorithms. Findings The results statistically supported the role of firm-level knowledge repositories (intellectual capital) and knowledge exploration and exploitation capabilities (absorptive capacity) as sequential mediators in the association of NBS and firm-level innovation. Besides, bridging networks of lateral ties among Pakistani businesses are found to be more effective than bonding networks of vertical ties in encouraging radical innovations. Originality/value This study significantly extends the literature about the NBS approach. It provides specific sense-making mechanisms (i.e. priming, triggering and editing) about how abstract institutional templates constituted at the business system level are translated into firm-level actionable sets by the help of intangible resource repositories and processes that guide knowledge exploration and exploitation.

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Axenbeck, Janna, and Patrick Breithaupt. "Innovation indicators based on firm websites—Which website characteristics predict firm-level innovation activity?" PLOS ONE 16, no. 4 (April 5, 2021): e0249583. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249583.

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Web-based innovation indicators may provide new insights into firm-level innovation activities. However, little is known yet about the accuracy and relevance of web-based information for measuring innovation. In this study, we use data on 4,487 firms from the Mannheim Innovation Panel (MIP) 2019, the German contribution to the European Community Innovation Survey (CIS), to analyze which website characteristics perform as predictors of innovation activity at the firm level. Website characteristics are measured by several data mining methods and are used as features in different Random Forest classification models that are compared against each other. Our results show that the most relevant website characteristics are textual content, the use of English language, the number of subpages and the amount of characters on a website. In our main analysis, models using all website characteristics jointly yield AUC values of up to 0.75 and increase accuracy scores by up to 18 percentage points compared to a baseline prediction based on the sample mean. Moreover, predictions with website characteristics significantly differ from baseline predictions according to a McNemar test. Results also indicate a better performance for the prediction of product innovators and firms with innovation expenditures than for the prediction of process innovators.

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Aramonte, Sirio. "Innovation, investor sentiment, and firm-level experimentation." Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2015, no. 67 (September 2015): 1–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.17016/feds.2015.067.

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Audretsch, David B., and Zoltan J. Acs. "Innovation and Size at the Firm Level." Southern Economic Journal 57, no. 3 (January 1991): 739. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1059787.

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Almeida, P., J. Hohberger, and P. Parada. "Individual scientific collaborations and firm-level innovation." Industrial and Corporate Change 20, no. 6 (July 6, 2011): 1571–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtr030.

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Battisti, Giuliana, Amid-George Mourani, and Paul Stoneman. "Causality and a firm-level innovation scoreboard." Economics of Innovation and New Technology 19, no. 1 (January 2010): 7–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10438590903016344.

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Paus, Eva, Michael Robinson, and Fiona Tregenna. "Firm innovation in Africa and Latin America: Heterogeneity and country context." Industrial and Corporate Change 31, no. 2 (March 9, 2022): 338–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtac006.

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Abstract In this paper, we analyze the drivers of firm innovation in 35 African and Latin American countries. We investigate how firm-level capabilities and national country characteristics affect firm innovation activities and innovation outputs. Using data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys, we analyze the factors driving firm-level innovation distinguishing two stages in the innovation process: firm engagement with innovation inputs and the translation of innovation inputs into innovation outputs. The paper provides empirical support for the importance of country-level macro and institutional characteristics, in addition to firm-level capabilities, across a large number of countries in determining firm-level innovation. We demonstrate that capital investment and training are just as important innovation activities as research and development spending in developing economies. We highlight the heterogeneity in firm innovation across firm size, country- and firm-level characteristics, and economic sectors.

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MANGIAROTTI, GIOVANNI, and ANNE-LAURE MENTION. "INVESTIGATING FIRM-LEVEL EFFECTS OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES ON INNOVATION PERFORMANCE." International Journal of Innovation Management 19, no. 01 (January 22, 2015): 1550012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1363919615500127.

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This study contributes to the scarce stream of literature that concentrates on measuring the firm-level effects of knowledge management (KM) strategies on innovation performance. It evaluates the impact of codification and personalisation strategies, both individually and jointly, distinguishing between innovation propensity and innovation output. The research applies a knowledge production function (KPF) approach to the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data for Luxembourg. Reliance on internationally agreed definitions and focus on an open international economy largely dominated by innovative service firms provide an original and significant contribution to the available empirical literature. Findings indicate that personalisation and codification effects on innovation propensity are highly comparable. In contrast, personalisation exerts a positive effect on innovation output, whereas codification does not. Results further advocate that codification affects output only when combined with personalisation. However, the adoption of mixed strategies does not seem to be more effective than a pure personalisation strategy.

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Zhang, Yufei, G. Tomas M. Hult, David J. Ketchen, and Roger J. Calantone. "Effects of firm-, industry-, and country-level innovation on firm performance." Marketing Letters 31, no. 2-3 (June 11, 2020): 231–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11002-020-09530-y.

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Bala Subrahmanya, M. H. "EXTERNAL SUPPORT, INNOVATION AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: WHAT FIRM LEVEL FACTORS MATTER FOR HIGH-TECH SMEs? HOW?" International Journal of Innovation Management 17, no. 05 (October 2013): 1350024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1363919613500242.

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This paper probes the factors which determine or enable SMEs to acquire external support, to achieve technological innovation outputs (in the form of innovation sales) and to enhance economic performance (in the form of sales growth). At the outset a conceptual framework (based on literature survey) is formulated by identifying the key variables relevant to the research objectives. Subsequently based on primary data gathered from 157 innovative SMEs covering auto components, electronics and machine tool industries in the Bangalore city region of India, we analyzed the three objectives. By means of logistic regression analysis, we ascertained that SMEs which have internal technical competence in the form of technically qualified owner/manager and an exclusive design office, which innovate frequently, particularly focusing on both product and process innovations obtained external support relative to the rest. Backward elimination multiple regression analysis revealed that firms which are able to obtain and complement external support to their internal technical competence, and which are "entrepreneurial firms" achieved more innovation sales. Finally, backward elimination multiple regression analysis ascertained that innovation sales, objective of firm origin, age of firms and nature of innovations significantly influenced the sales growth of SMEs.

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Cirera, Xavier, and Ana P. Cusolito. "Innovation Patterns and Their Effects on Firm-Level Productivity in South Asia." Journal of Economics and Public Finance 5, no. 3 (June 28, 2019): p261. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/jepf.v5n3p261.

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This paper describes and benchmarks innovation activities for a sample of countries in the South Asia region, as well as the impact of these activities on firm-level productivity. The evidence gathered suggests that countries in the South Asia region can be divided into two groups, both in terms of the magnitude and composition of the innovation activities: leaders (Bangladesh and India) and laggards (Nepal and Pakistan). Leaders present higher rates of innovation activities than laggards and focus more on process innovation than in product innovation. Also, differences across-firms within all countries tend to present similar patterns when considering both leaders and laggards; with the acquisition of knowledge capital (e.g., R&D, investments in equipment, training) highly concentrated in few firms, and mature, exporter, and foreign-owned firms as the most innovative of the region. The evidence also suggests a positive impact of innovation on productivity, primarily via incremental innovation, especially in India.

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Datta, Avimanyu. "Information Technology and Firm Innovations." International Journal of Innovation in the Digital Economy 2, no. 4 (October 2011): 45–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijide.2011100104.

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This paper provides a framework comprising of research agenda explicating the relations between IT Capability and Firm Innovation. Firm innovation is conceptualized as a combination of three constructs: networks, capabilities (absorptive capacity), and commercialization of innovations (CI). These three constructs have received a very lukewarm response from the IS research community. Inclusion of these three constructs, and examining how IT- capability affects the relationships between these constructs, is essential to examining the role of IT in innovation at the firm-level. Five research agendas are identified.

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Demirkan, Irem. "The impact of firm resources on innovation." European Journal of Innovation Management 21, no. 4 (October 8, 2018): 672–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ejim-12-2017-0196.

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to propose that the resources that a firm owns and has full control (firm-level resources) and resources that a firm access through direct connection with other firms (network-level resources) will impact firm innovation when effectively deployed by the firm. While previous research examined these factors separately, the author takes a holistic view and looks into their effects on innovation simultaneously. The author also introduces the moderating effects, i.e. the variables that can enhance firm innovation through their interaction with internal and external resources.Design/methodology/approachThe author tested the role of financial resources and slack resources in the form of cash slack and human slack at the firm level, and network size, network tie strength, and network diversity at the network level on the firm innovation. Using generalized negative binomial model with Huber-White procedure, the author analyzed 306 firms from the biotechnology industry over a span of 17 years.FindingsThe analysis suggests that cash slack impact innovation negatively. However, this link is moderated by firm size such that for large firms cash slack affects innovation positively. Network-level resources all positively impact innovation and have more economic impact on firm innovation than firm-level resources. Furthermore, although human slack negatively affects innovation, its interaction with network size enhances innovation.Originality/valueThe research makes important contributions to both strategic management and innovation literatures especially when, the author considers the role of firm-level slack in driving firm innovation. Previous research reported conflicting findings about the availability of slack resources and firm performance. The results showed that the relationship between slack resources and firm innovation is negative and significant, both for available slack and human slack. This finding parallels with previous research which reported that constraints such as lack of slack resources can actually facilitate innovation. The author also contributes to the literature by introducing boundary conditions which can enhance firm innovation through their interaction with firm-level internal and network-level external resources. In this respect, to the author’s knowledge, this is among the first studies to combine the slack literature focusing on firm-level resources with the literature on network-level resources.

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Zheng, Kairui, Yijie Li, and Xiaohui Xin. "The Influencing Mechanism of High-Speed Rail on Innovation: Firm-Level Evidence from China." Sustainability 14, no. 24 (December 11, 2022): 16592. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su142416592.

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There is an urgent need to change the economic development mode from “resources driven” to “innovation driven” with the stagnation of the economy in China. Most existing research on the effect of high-speed rail (HSR) on firm innovation has lacked theoretical support and empirical evidence of firm innovation through knowledge spillover. This study introduces HSR as a cost coefficient to the classical heterogeneous firm model to construct a theoretical framework to determine the impact of HSR on firms’ innovation output. By matching the data of listed firms with the data of prefecture-level cities, the general difference-in-differences (DID) method is used to explore the impact of HSR on firm innovation and its mechanism. The research shows that the construction of HSR has a significant effect on the number of applied patent and authorized patents of firms and that there is a marginal increasing trend relating to the density and timing of HSR. The study found that in peripheral cities, firms in industries with rapid technological advances and highly innovative behaviors benefit more from HSR. HSR is associated with knowledge spillover within and between central and peripheral cities. It also has a heterogeneous sorting effect bounded by city size that promotes highly educated talent and the innovative output of firms that becomes significant only after the population size of a city reaches a certain threshold. HSR stimulates firm innovation mainly by improving the effect of firm resource allocation, promoting the spillover effect of innovation due to the flow and aggregation of resources, and increasing the scale effect of market expansion. Therefore, when designing innovation policies, the role of improving the construction of transportation to increase the frequency of face-to-face communication should be included, thus promoting the flow of knowledge and research collaboration.

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Srivastava, Saurabh, Abid Sultan, and Nasreen Chashti. "Influence of innovation competence on firm level competitiveness: an exploratory study." Asia Pacific Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 11, no. 1 (April 3, 2017): 63–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/apjie-04-2017-021.

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Purpose The dynamics of the competitive performance of the small medium firms is an evolving field of research in the developing countries like India. The influence of the innovation on the competitive performance of the firms is still an evolving area in India. This paper aims to explore the influence of the innovation on the competitive performance. The study is based upon the agro-food processing industry of the Jammu and Kashmir state of India. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based upon the exploratory design. It uses quantitative as well as qualitative method for the firm level analysis of competitiveness. The aggregate index method has been used to construct the innovation competence and total competitive performance index. The regression analysis is used for describing the model based upon the primary data. Findings The results of the study provide for a significant relationship between the innovation competence and firm level competitiveness. It describes the position of the agro-food processing firms under study with respect to the innovation competence index score and total competitiveness performance index. Research limitations/implications The paper provides for the managerial implications of strategically incubating the innovation-based competence for the firms in specific geographical areas. The policy implications in terms of developing specific clusters and incubators for incremental and radical innovations can be derived, in regional economies. Originality/value The paper discusses the issue of interaction of innovation competence and firm level competitiveness of the agro-food processing industry, which is dynamic, specifically in the developing states. The paper discussed unique methodology of using aggregate index method for defining the innovation competence and competitiveness for the firms where the consistency of data is a major issue for such a complex phenomenon.

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Kamaruddeen, Ahmed Mohammed, Nor'Aini Yusof, and Ilias Said. "Introducing innovation in a housing development firm in Malaysia." Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies 1, no. 1 (January 1, 2011): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/20450621111129537.

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Subject area Innovation, privatisation and property development. Study level/applicability Undergraduate and MA level property development courses; modules covering privatisation within undergraduate, MBA and MA level management programmes. Case overview This paper presents the genesis and motivating factors that stimulate a managing director of a housing development (D&B Private Limited Company) to introduce innovation as a strategic solution to the challenges which hinder his firm's growth. The recently launched Ten Malaysian Plan and the Sustainable Programme for Corporate Malaysia are identified as the two stimulating events that triggered the initiation and subsequent implementation of innovation into Design and Build Sdn Bhd. Innovation has been recognized as an endeavor that impacts positively and significantly the performance of the firm that innovates. There was a major focus on factors that enhance innovation of a firm: structure, culture, resources and how to address or react to external factors such as government regulation on innovation, environmental uncertainty and market competition. The quest to be an innovative firm has led to major changes in the structure, culture and review of the firm intangible resources. Coupled with some corporate responsibilities, Design and Build Sdn Bhd has been recognized for its unique performance resulting from the competitive advantage derived from this very idea of innovations. Expected learning outcomes Students are expected to be able: to present a basic understanding of the motivations and driving force behind the housing developer's keen interest to innovate, to present the multiple benefits of adopting innovation in the housing industry, to highlight the internal and external factors which positively influence innovation among housing developers?, to present how housing developers are able to manage challenges facing their companies through innovation. Supplementary materials Teaching notes.

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Rukundo, Johnson Bosco. "Firm performance and innovation in the developing countries: Evidence from firm-level survey." Corporate Ownership and Control 15, no. 1 (2017): 235–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/cocv15i1c1p7.

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This paper investigates the relationship between firm performance and innovation in developing countries using micro data from enterprise surveys. The purpose is to empirically test the importance of firm performance in terms of sales, for a firm’s proneness to innovate specifically in developing countries. A two-stage least squares (2SLS) model is applied to a sample of 2356 firms from the manufacturing and service sectors. Results show that firm performance, defined as sales, is found to be a significant factor contributing to innovation among firms. This relationship holds in manufacturing firms even when distinguished from the services sector. The findings underline the importance of firms’ performance through increased sales. The paper adds to the existing limited research literature on performance and innovation studies in developing countries especially Africa. The paper results differ from previous research studies where focus has been on innovation impact towards performance. As a policy option, developing countries need to improve and promote an increase in firms’ sales that would spur them to introduce a new or substantially improved product or process.

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Potapova, A. I. "IMPACT OF PERSONNELS' RECEPTIVITY OF INNOVATIONS ON IT INNOVATIONS IMPLEMENTATION." Business Strategies, no. 11 (November 23, 2019): 12–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.17747/2311-7184-2019-11-12-13.

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The article analyzes the level of perception of IT innovations and its impact on the state of innovative receptivity of staff in an organization. In this regard, Adapting the staff to changes and managing the innovation implementation process become acute issues for the firm.

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Beneito, Pilar, Paz Coscollá-Girona, María Engracia Rochina-Barrachina, and Amparo Sanchis. "Competitive Pressure and Innovation at the Firm Level." Journal of Industrial Economics 63, no. 3 (September 2015): 422–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/joie.12079.

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Chalioti, Evangelia, Kyriakos Drivas, Sarantis Kalyvitis, and Margarita Katsimi. "Innovation, patents and trade: A firm‐level analysis." Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique 53, no. 3 (July 24, 2020): 949–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/caje.12451.

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Roig-Tierno, Norat, Domingo Ribeiro-Soriano, and Francisco Mas-Verdú. "Clustering and innovation: firm-level strategising and policy." Entrepreneurship & Regional Development 29, no. 7-8 (August 8, 2017): 814–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2017.1335958.

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Wakelin, Katharine. "Innovation and export behaviour at the firm level." Research Policy 26, no. 7-8 (April 1998): 829–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0048-7333(97)00051-6.

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Andersson, Martin, and Hans Lööf. "Small business innovation: firm level evidence from Sweden." Journal of Technology Transfer 37, no. 5 (March 4, 2011): 732–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10961-011-9216-9.

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Brouwer, Erik, Alfred Kleinknecht, and Jeroen O. N. Reijnen. "Employment growth and innovation at the firm level." Journal of Evolutionary Economics 3, no. 2 (June 1993): 153–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01213832.

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Grande, Rafael, Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo, Enrique Fernández Macías, and José Ignacio Antón. "Innovation and job quality. A firm-level exploration." Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 54 (September 2020): 130–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2020.04.002.

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de Elejalde, Ramiro, David Giuliodori, and Rodolfo Stucchi. "Employment and Innovation: Firm-Level Evidence from Argentina." Emerging Markets Finance and Trade 51, no. 1 (January 2, 2015): 27–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1540496x.2015.998088.

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Waheed, Abdul. "Innovation and Firm-Level Productivity: Evidence from Bangladesh." Developing Economies 55, no. 4 (November 26, 2017): 290–314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/deve.12152.

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Egbetokun, Abiodun. "Cooperation resources, absorptive capacity and firm-level innovation." Innovation and Development 5, no. 1 (January 2, 2015): 169. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2157930x.2015.1007568.

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Qi, Guoyou, Hailiang Zou, Xie X.M., and Saixing Zeng. "Firms’ reaction to threats from informal firms: exploring the roles of institutional quality and technical gap." Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing 35, no. 11 (April 20, 2020): 1887–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jbim-07-2019-0346.

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Purpose Threats from the informal sector have become an important concern among formal firms. As a response to these threats, formal firms can adopt product innovation (PI) and marketing innovation (MI) strategies to differentiate themselves. The purpose of this paper is to examine how firm-level technical capability and external institutional quality affect firms’ reactions to the threats from informal firms by adopting innovative activities. Design/methodology/approach Based on attention-based view (ABV), an empirical study is conducted by using firm-level data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey in 2013. Findings The findings indicate that when faced with competition from informal firms, formal firms will intensify their innovation activities in both MI and PI, and their technical capability mitigates the competitive threats from informal sectors and thus weakens the impact of informal competitors on the level of product and marketing innovations. Moreover, it is found that the improvement of institutional quality reduces formal firms’ urgency to introduce new products when facing informal competitors. However, this improvement strengthens the impact of informal rivalry on formal firms’ innovation in marketing methods. Originality/value Previous studies that investigate the influence of informal threats are focused on technological innovation (e.g., PI and process innovation) strategies, but little knowledge is provided on non-technological innovative strategies, such as marketing strategies (e.g., MI and organizational innovation). This study contributes to the innovation literature by delving into the circumstances under which PI and/or MI is adopted to counter informal rivals. The findings enrich ABV by investigating how inter-firm resource similarity and marketing commonality strengthen top managers' attention to competition from informal firms.

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Asiedu, Michael. "Firm Characteristics, Financing and Firm Innovation in Africa." Archives of Business Research 9, no. 7 (August 4, 2021): 177–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.14738/abr.97.10533.

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The study employed firm level data from the World Bank’s Enterprise Survey Indicator Database to investigate firm characteristics associated with firm innovation in 32 African countries, for the period 2009 to 2018. We find that firm level innovation, including the introduction of significantly new products (H1), new or significantly improved methods of manufacturing products (New Technology) are strongly associated with external funding sources (funds from Banks and non-banking institutions). In addition, firm level characteristics such as firm age, female ownership, capacity utilization, educated labor force, exposure to competition is strongly associated with firm innovation. These findings are very important for countries in Africa (and other less-developed countries) who spend less on research and development due financing and structural constraints but want to accelerate economic growth and increased productivity.

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Tohmo, Timo, and Esa Storhammar. "Innovations and Growth: Evidence from Finnish SMEs." Journal of Enterprising Culture 27, no. 03 (September 2019): 229–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218495819500092.

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The purpose of this study is to clarify the factors that affect the ability of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to create innovations that promote firm growth. Studies regarding the relationship between research intensity and growth have typically produced mixed results, revealing a modest or non-existent influence of innovations on sales growth. These studies have typically used patents as indicators of innovation. We directly asked firms whether their innovations had affected their growth, and we regressed the results over several variables, covering a wide range of dimensions related to (1) personal factors, (2) firm-related factors (including questions that reflect a firm’s innovation strategies), and (3) regional factors. Our analyses of Finnish SMEs revealed that trust, innovation activities and networking are essential components of firms’ ability to create innovations that contribute to high firm growth. A multinomial logistic regression analysis also provided support for the assumption that age, technological level and firm location affect firm performance.

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Goedhuys, Micheline, Pierre Mohnen, and Tamer Taha. "Corruption, innovation and firm growth: firm-level evidence from Egypt and Tunisia." Eurasian Business Review 6, no. 3 (October 8, 2016): 299–322. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40821-016-0062-4.

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Chege, Samwel M., Daoping Wang, and Shaldon Leparan Suntu. "Influence of Technology Innovation Intensity on Firm Performance." International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction 16, no. 2 (April 2020): 34–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijthi.2020040104.

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The aim of this paper is to assess the effects of technology innovation intensity on firm performance. A sample of 297 businesses funded by the Youth Enterprise Development Fund in Kenya was used as study framework. Correlation and a regression model were used for content analysis. The findings show that technology innovation intensity contributes positively to firm performance, but the entrepreneur characteristic affects the firms' innovation level. Further, the results show low profitability and expansion level among micro and small enterprises. The findings provide information necessary for competitive advantages and recommends the empowerment of entrepreneurs in technology innovation trends for their firm performance. The study endeavors to discover and advance enterprise innovative strategies that are ideally anchored in the technological, organizational, and environmental frameworks. The value of this study is on the approaches of entrepreneur capability in handling technology innovation intensity within a competitive business environment to improve firm performance.

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Saka-Helmhout, Ayse, Maryse Chappin, and Patrick Vermeulen. "Multiple Paths to Firm Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa: How informal institutions matter." Organization Studies 41, no. 11 (December 4, 2019): 1551–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840619882971.

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Although innovation studies in developing countries acknowledge the importance of resources for firm innovation, their emphasis tends to be on bottlenecks created by resource constraints and institutional weaknesses. We address this shortcoming by exploring the relationship among firm resources and formal and informal institutions leading to innovation in these settings. By adopting a crisp-set qualitative comparative analysis of firms in sub-Saharan Africa, we confirm the thesis that informal institutions substitute underdeveloped formal institutions and in combination with firm-level resources afford firm innovation. More importantly, we find that informal institutions also complement more developed formal institutions in the presence or absence of high levels of firm resources or accommodate them in the presence of high levels of firm resources to support firm innovation. Our findings point to multiple paths that firms can take to be innovative that best fit their existing institutional context.

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Onea, Ioana Alexandra. "Innovation Indicators and the Innovation Process - Evidence from the European Innovation Scoreboard." Management & Marketing. Challenges for the Knowledge Society 15, no. 4 (December 1, 2020): 605–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/mmcks-2020-0035.

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Abstract The purpose of this paper is to determine the influence of specific innovation indicators on the overall innovation process. In this sense, a quantitative methodological approach has been employed and data has been analysed using IBM SPSS version 24. Innovation is one the themes of considerable interest at worldwide and at European level, this being reflected by the 2020 European innovation indicator. Innovation is considered to generate economic growth and create competitive advantage for both large organizations and small and medium enterprises, thus being examined as a factor that influences overall business efficiency. In this sense, the data used for this research contains the information published in the European Innovation Indicator Scoreboard 2020 database. In this regard, two innovation indicators have been considered for analysis, namely firm investments and employment impact. An exploratory factor and correlation analysis have been performed in SPSS in order to provide an answer to the research question: “How do firm investments and employment impacts influence the overall Summary Innovation Index?”. The findings show that there is a positive correlation between the selected innovation indicators, namely firm investments and employment impact and the overall summary innovation index. These findings reveal a strong correlation between firm investments and the innovation process, which results into guidance for companies and their innovative efforts. In this sense, this paper further provides recommendations for firms on where to channel and focus their efforts in order to create more innovative products and activities.

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Sun, Cong, and Jiang Wei. "Digging deep into the enterprise innovation ecosystem." Chinese Management Studies 13, no. 4 (November 4, 2019): 820–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/cms-05-2018-0505.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how Chinese enterprises overcome their lack of resource and capabilities and eventually fulfill global resource accumulation, fast innovative commercialization and significant technological breakthrough by establishing and coordinating innovation ecosystem at firm level. Design/methodology/approach This paper first reviewed the literature on the structure and coordinating mechanism of enterprise innovation ecosystem and identified two important gaps on the characteristics of ecosystem actors and the logic of innovative coordination. Then, the paper adopted grounded analysis about the construction and evolution of Haier’s innovation ecosystem based on longitudinal case data. On the basis of the case study, the construct of firm-level innovation ecosystem and new logic of coordination are formed. Findings This paper found the emerging phenomenon of sub-organizational ecosystem actors and depicted that the establishing process of firm-level innovation ecosystem went through three majors stages, and the corresponding coordinating logic changed from proactive intervention to reactive self-evolution. Originality/value This paper tried to make contributions to the studies of structure and coordinating mechanism of enterprise innovation ecosystem, and proposed the enterprise itself could build firm-level ecosystem within its organizational boundary and interact with external ecosystem. The findings enlightened the nested structure of ecosystem, opened the black box of organizational boundary and broke the limitation that existing researches only analyse innovation ecosystem at system level and regard firms as basic analytical unit. Besides, this paper proposed that the coordination of innovation ecosystem can be passively fulfilled by network effect and ecological evolution, where previous studies mainly focused on proactive institutional intervention and resource investment. This point could provide Chinese enterprises with good references.

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