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With the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, businesses are adapting to the use of digitalisation which requires the digital transformation of their existing business models. However, there is limited empirical research on this phenomenon. The purpose of this study is twofold: (i) to develop a framework for businesses to digitally transform their business models and (ii) to examine literature in order to identify and analyse the constructs underlying the three concepts of Digitalisation, Digital Transformation and Business Model Innovation. The study is qualitative in nature and is based on a narrative review. Relevant articles were identified by using international bibliographic databases and scrutinised using thematic analysis. The findings reveal that the first two constructs require digital capabilities and a digital strategy. The third construct requires digital transformation in the realm of customer-centricity, resources, processes and profit. A set of propositions was formulated and the commonalities were mapped. Based upon this map, a conceptual framework was developed. The findings will assist in the development of future instruments that can guide businesses to digitally transform existing business model elements. This study aims to fill the gap on how business model innovation should be pursued through digital transformation by developing a conceptual framework.
Chanté van Tonder; Chris Schachtebeck; Cecile Nieuwenhuizen; Bart Bossink. A framework for digital transformation and business model innovation. Management 2020, 25, 111 -132.
AMA StyleChanté van Tonder, Chris Schachtebeck, Cecile Nieuwenhuizen, Bart Bossink. A framework for digital transformation and business model innovation. Management. 2020; 25 (2):111-132.
Chicago/Turabian StyleChanté van Tonder; Chris Schachtebeck; Cecile Nieuwenhuizen; Bart Bossink. 2020. "A framework for digital transformation and business model innovation." Management 25, no. 2: 111-132.
This paper researches legitimacy creation in a publicly-funded trajectory of innovative technological development. It develops a framework of input, throughput and output legitimacy. The framework is developed based on a review of the literature on the creation of legitimacy in innovative technological development. The framework assists in further exploring the potential of the integrated assessment of the legitimacy of technological innovation trajectories in the public sphere, in terms of (1) public accountability (ensuring input legitimacy); (2) science, technology and innovation policy (ensuring throughput legitimacy); and (3) the potential for the implementation of the technology itself in practical contexts (ensuring output legitimacy). The framework is used to analyze a case study about the publicly-funded development of innovative technology for the retrieval of raw materials from waste water. Theoretically, the value of a more processual approach to the conceptualization of legitimacy becomes apparent. Furthermore, the framework assists in the development of practical recommendations on the ways in which to optimize the legitimacy in an earlier stage in the innovation’s trajectory. However, due attention should also be paid to the role of regulatory arrangements in the optimization of the legitimacy of publicly-funded technological innovation. This is an avenue for further research.
Marlous Blankesteijn; Bart Bossink. Assessing the Legitimacy of Technological Innovation in the Public Sphere: Recovering Raw Materials from Waste Water. Sustainability 2020, 12, 9408 .
AMA StyleMarlous Blankesteijn, Bart Bossink. Assessing the Legitimacy of Technological Innovation in the Public Sphere: Recovering Raw Materials from Waste Water. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (22):9408.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMarlous Blankesteijn; Bart Bossink. 2020. "Assessing the Legitimacy of Technological Innovation in the Public Sphere: Recovering Raw Materials from Waste Water." Sustainability 12, no. 22: 9408.
This literature review study presents and discusses the learning strategies of organizations participating in sustainable energy demonstration projects. It finds that academic, commercial, and governmental organizations build on six major learning strategies. The first learning strategy is to capture intellectual property and benefit from knowledge spillovers. The second learning strategy comprises the building of a series of prototypes that are technically and commercially fit for purpose. The third learning strategy aims at operating production plants that produce the prototypes on a large scale. The fourth learning strategy concentrates on exploiting learning curves in these production plants. The fifth learning strategy focuses on creating supply-demand networks that serve increasing markets. Finally, the sixth learning strategy is to develop governmental regulation and funding schemes that support the emergence of an industrial and societal institutional infrastructure for sustainable energy technology, based on the lessons learned from the demonstration projects. This study also finds that the six learning strategies are facilitated by four key behaviors of participants in demonstration projects, which are mutual trust-building, decision-making in favor of sustainable energy technology, learning-network building, and demonstration program development. To academics, this study provides a comprehensive insight into organizations’ learning strategies in sustainable energy demonstration projects, regarding learning directions and outcomes. Its contribution to practice is that it supports academic, commercial, and governmental organizations in managing their portfolio of learning strategies in new sustainable energy demonstration projects.
Bart Bossink. Learning strategies in sustainable energy demonstration projects: What organizations learn from sustainable energy demonstrations. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 2020, 131, 110025 .
AMA StyleBart Bossink. Learning strategies in sustainable energy demonstration projects: What organizations learn from sustainable energy demonstrations. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 2020; 131 ():110025.
Chicago/Turabian StyleBart Bossink. 2020. "Learning strategies in sustainable energy demonstration projects: What organizations learn from sustainable energy demonstrations." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 131, no. : 110025.
Given the increasing significance of green innovation, scholars have identified environment-oriented leader behavior as a key antecedent of green innovation in firms. However, despite the fact that previous studies highlight all kinds of benefits of environment-oriented leaders’ voluntary workplace green behavior (VWGB) in and for firms, little is known about how these leaders’ VWGB could affect a firm team’s green product innovation as well as their process innovation. To narrow this research gap, this study theorizes and tests the effect of leaders’ VWGB on their team’s green innovation, as well as the mediation effect of team green efficacy belief on this relationship. Using a time-lagged research design, we collected data from 497 employees and 80 leaders in Chinese manufacturing firms. The results show that leaders’ VWGB directly affects both their team’s green product and process innovation, and facilitates the development of team green efficacy, which in turn stimulates team green innovation. This present study extends the multilevel phenomena by reinforcing the importance of leaders’ VWGB and team green efficacy on team-level green innovation, and provides practical implications on developing leadership for environmentally sustainable innovation.
Wenjing Cai; Chun Yang; Bart A. G. Bossink; Jingtao Fu. Linking Leaders’ Voluntary Workplace Green Behavior and Team Green Innovation: The Mediation Role of Team Green Efficacy. Sustainability 2020, 12, 3404 .
AMA StyleWenjing Cai, Chun Yang, Bart A. G. Bossink, Jingtao Fu. Linking Leaders’ Voluntary Workplace Green Behavior and Team Green Innovation: The Mediation Role of Team Green Efficacy. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (8):3404.
Chicago/Turabian StyleWenjing Cai; Chun Yang; Bart A. G. Bossink; Jingtao Fu. 2020. "Linking Leaders’ Voluntary Workplace Green Behavior and Team Green Innovation: The Mediation Role of Team Green Efficacy." Sustainability 12, no. 8: 3404.
Considering that one of the key components of liquid food in environmentally friendly packaging is its higher price, it may not be appealing to all consumers. However, a growing body of evidence has shown that the sale of liquid food in environmentally friendly packaging is increasing. The purpose of this study was to analyze why consumers are willing to pay more for liquid food in environmentally friendly packaging. Drawing on the theory of dual attitudes by Wilson, Lindsey, and Schooler, this study proposes that consumer purchasing behavior can be explained through implicit and explicit attitudes. Moreover, a consumer’s ecoliteracy and ecofriendly lifestyle might be important predictors of consumer attitudes toward environmentally friendly packaging. Our conceptual model was tested on survey data from 11 countries, with a total of 7028 respondents. The study revealed that consumers’ willingness to pay a higher price for liquid food in environmentally friendly packaging could be predicted by their positive attitudes toward (a) the environmental friendliness of the packaging, (b) the brand of the liquid food, and (c) the affordability of the liquid food in the environmentally friendly packaging. Ecoliteracy and having an ecofriendly lifestyle were found to be important predictors of consumer attitudes toward environmentally friendly packaging. This study contributes to the literature that aims to explain consumers’ willingness to pay more for food in environmentally friendly packaging. It identifies how much more consumers are willing to pay for food in environmentally friendly packaging and why.
Igor Popovic; Bart A. G. Bossink; Peter C. Van Der Sijde; Christine Y. M. Fong. Why Are Consumers Willing to Pay More for Liquid Foods in Environmentally Friendly Packaging? A Dual Attitudes Perspective. Sustainability 2020, 12, 2812 .
AMA StyleIgor Popovic, Bart A. G. Bossink, Peter C. Van Der Sijde, Christine Y. M. Fong. Why Are Consumers Willing to Pay More for Liquid Foods in Environmentally Friendly Packaging? A Dual Attitudes Perspective. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (7):2812.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIgor Popovic; Bart A. G. Bossink; Peter C. Van Der Sijde; Christine Y. M. Fong. 2020. "Why Are Consumers Willing to Pay More for Liquid Foods in Environmentally Friendly Packaging? A Dual Attitudes Perspective." Sustainability 12, no. 7: 2812.
An increasing digitalization in all aspects of life and work reshapes traditional assumptions about human creativity. Both scholars and practitioners raise many questions with regards to how to stimulate employee creativity in the digital work context. While there are many studies that examine predictors of employee creativity, little effort has been made thus far to synthesize these findings in way that would provide meaningful guidance to organizations and to provide bases for future research. With this paper we aim to contribute to filling this gap. We systematically review empirical studies on predictors of employee creativity published in the past 30 years and organize findings following an established human resources management framework: Ability–Motivation–Opportunity (AMO) theory. This organizing framework enables us to clearly depict how contextual factors (a) separately and (b) jointly influence individual employee creativity. Specifically, it enables us to depict two possible models—combination and multiplicative models—through which contextual factors interact with individual factors in predicting employee creativity. Through synthesizing evidence for each of the models, we demonstrate to scholars and practitioners what is known about the interactional effects of contextual and personal factors on employee creativity, and what still needs to be studied if we are to take the field of research on creativity in the digital era forward.
Wenjing Cai; Svetlana Khapova; Bart Bossink; Evgenia Lysova; Jing Yuan. Optimizing Employee Creativity in the Digital Era: Uncovering the Interactional Effects of Abilities, Motivations, and Opportunities. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2020, 17, 1038 .
AMA StyleWenjing Cai, Svetlana Khapova, Bart Bossink, Evgenia Lysova, Jing Yuan. Optimizing Employee Creativity in the Digital Era: Uncovering the Interactional Effects of Abilities, Motivations, and Opportunities. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020; 17 (3):1038.
Chicago/Turabian StyleWenjing Cai; Svetlana Khapova; Bart Bossink; Evgenia Lysova; Jing Yuan. 2020. "Optimizing Employee Creativity in the Digital Era: Uncovering the Interactional Effects of Abilities, Motivations, and Opportunities." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 3: 1038.
This paper studies the initiation of a partnership between a corporation and a nongovernmental organization (NGO) for environmentally sustainable innovation, as well as its development over time. Proceeding from a dynamic capabilities approach, it provides a retrospective, longitudinal examination of a 10-year partnership between KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM) and the World Wildlife Fund for Nature Netherlands (WNF), which promoted a market for aviation biofuels. The case study suggests that the progress of the partnership is determined by three specific dynamic capabilities of KLM and WNF: learning, coordination, and reconfiguration. The results reveal two microfoundations for each of these dynamic capabilities. For learning, these microfoundations are the sensing of strategic partners and the co-specialization of resources. For coordination, these consist of finding a fit between partners and having an integrated mission. Finally, the microfoundations of reconfiguration are the fostering of an institutional dialogue and the setting of new industry standards. This study is beneficial to scholars as it opens a research avenue concerning the dynamic capabilities and microfoundations that support corporate-NGO partnering for environmentally sustainable innovation. Practitioners can use these dynamic capabilities and microfoundations as guidelines for developing their own specific corporate-NGO partnerships.
SeyedEsmaeil Mousavi; Bart Bossink. Corporate-NGO partnership for environmentally sustainable innovation. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 2020, 34, 80 -95.
AMA StyleSeyedEsmaeil Mousavi, Bart Bossink. Corporate-NGO partnership for environmentally sustainable innovation. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 2020; 34 ():80-95.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSeyedEsmaeil Mousavi; Bart Bossink. 2020. "Corporate-NGO partnership for environmentally sustainable innovation." Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 34, no. : 80-95.
This paper explores the potential of university-industry technology transfer through science-based entrepreneurship education (SBEE). The scientific literature focuses mostly on enabling university-industry technology transfer via university-industry collaboration in research, and not so much in (science) education. The paper identifies four strands of relevant literature for further theorizing SBEE principles to research its contribution to industry-technology transfer: 1. Embedding entrepreneurship education in universities; 2. Balancing theory and practice of entrepreneurship education; 3. Cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset through entrepreneurship education; and 4. Creating spin-offs through entrepreneurship education. One of the main theoretical contributions of this paper is, that SBEE is different from regular entrepreneurship education in its need for being firmly embedded in a science, technology and R&D environment, both within and outside the university. This is important in order to give SBEE students the opportunity to gain experience with handling the hurdles for successful university-industry technology transfer. The main empirical finding is that elements in the program, related to for example the balance between teaching entrepreneurship through theory and experiential learning, are not systematically covered. It means that fundamental questions such as: Can entrepreneurship be indeed taught? Which elements of entrepreneurship can be taught through theory, and which ones must be experienced in practice? are currently left unanswered. Systematic coverage of these questions enables a better exploitation of the possibilities that SBEE offers for university-industry technology transfer.
Marlous Blankesteijn; Bart Bossink; Peter van der Sijde. Science-based entrepreneurship education as a means for university-industry technology transfer. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal 2020, 17, 779 -808.
AMA StyleMarlous Blankesteijn, Bart Bossink, Peter van der Sijde. Science-based entrepreneurship education as a means for university-industry technology transfer. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal. 2020; 17 (2):779-808.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMarlous Blankesteijn; Bart Bossink; Peter van der Sijde. 2020. "Science-based entrepreneurship education as a means for university-industry technology transfer." International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal 17, no. 2: 779-808.
An efficiency evaluation of China’s regional sustainable innovation, evaluating industrial waste and total energy consumption, is the main research subject in this paper. It focuses on a regional measurement and comparison of these undesirable outputs of Chinese firm activities, such as industrial SO2 and CO2 emissions. By applying a data envelopment analysis–slack-based measure (DEA–SBM) model with undesirable outputs indicators, the regional innovation efficiency was evaluated for 30 provinces in China, from 2002 to 2014. The results indicate that the sustainable innovation efficiency of overall China is still relatively low, and varies significantly in different regions. Central and Western China have similar sustainable innovation efficiencies, which are much lower than the sustainable innovation efficiency in Eastern China. Furthermore, the data indicate that regional sustainable innovation efficiency disparities among these three areas are decreasing. Based on these findings, reasons for the sustainable innovation efficiency gap among the different regions were analyzed. To scholars, this paper extends the research on regional sustainable innovation efficiency by implementing an undesirable output perspective to the DEA–SBM model. The findings also provide Chinese policy makers with useful decision support insights for regional sustainable innovation, and energy conservation and emission reduction policies.
Kai Xu; Bart Bossink; Qiang Chen. Efficiency Evaluation of Regional Sustainable Innovation in China: A Slack-Based Measure (SBM) Model with Undesirable Outputs. Sustainability 2019, 12, 31 .
AMA StyleKai Xu, Bart Bossink, Qiang Chen. Efficiency Evaluation of Regional Sustainable Innovation in China: A Slack-Based Measure (SBM) Model with Undesirable Outputs. Sustainability. 2019; 12 (1):31.
Chicago/Turabian StyleKai Xu; Bart Bossink; Qiang Chen. 2019. "Efficiency Evaluation of Regional Sustainable Innovation in China: A Slack-Based Measure (SBM) Model with Undesirable Outputs." Sustainability 12, no. 1: 31.
While many food producers invest in adopting sustainable and/or environmentally friendly packaging for regular foods, such as milk or juice, it remains unclear why consumers choose to buy regular food in such packaging, especially when it is more expensive and other alternatives are available. The purpose of this paper is to present a systematic literature review of all studies on the predictors of consumer food purchasing in environmentally friendly packaging published in the period 1994–2019. The guiding research question of this study is: Which factors influence the consumers’ decision to purchase food in environmentally friendly packaging? To review the extant research on the factors influencing consumers’ decision to purchase food in environmentally friendly packaging, we employed a systematic literature review methodology. The review revealed that, although the extant research is growing, it is very limited in terms of the theories utilized to explain consumer purchasing behavior and in the range of the tested predictors of consumers’ purchasing of foods in environmentally friendly packaging. Among the existing explanations are demographics, consumer attitudes, knowledge about the environmental effects of packaging, visual designs, functionality, cross-cultural differences, and affordability. The paper is concluded with a discussion of the implications of this systematic literature review for future research and practice. Among the leading recommendations are: (a) to go beyond Ajzen’s theoretical explanations of consumer purchasing behaviors; (b) to examine a broader set of predictors; (c) to draw on more interconnected complex models that include both internal and external factors; (d) to conduct cross-cultural comparative studies; (e) to address the gap between attitudes and behaviors; and (f) to consider the role of organizations and government in the transition to more sustainable consumer purchasing behavior, rather than only searching for individual predictors of behaviors.
Igor Popovic; Bart A. G. Bossink; Peter C. Van Der Sijde. Factors Influencing Consumers’ Decision to Purchase Food in Environmentally Friendly Packaging: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go from Here? Sustainability 2019, 11, 7197 .
AMA StyleIgor Popovic, Bart A. G. Bossink, Peter C. Van Der Sijde. Factors Influencing Consumers’ Decision to Purchase Food in Environmentally Friendly Packaging: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go from Here? Sustainability. 2019; 11 (24):7197.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIgor Popovic; Bart A. G. Bossink; Peter C. Van Der Sijde. 2019. "Factors Influencing Consumers’ Decision to Purchase Food in Environmentally Friendly Packaging: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go from Here?" Sustainability 11, no. 24: 7197.
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to gain insight into the contingent use of rational, intuitive and political decision-making in R&D. Design/methodology/approach This research is based on a study in an R&D department of a multinational high-tech firm in the Netherlands. The study consists of a case study design, focusing on four embedded cases, longitudinally studying each case. Findings The literature distinguishes three dimensions of innovation decision-making processes: rational, intuitive and political. By studying these interwoven dimensions over time, this study finds that the dominant use of each of these dimensions differs across the innovation process. There is an emphasis on intuitive decision-making in an early phase, followed by more emphasis on political decision-making, and moving to more emphasis on rational decision-making in a later phase of the R&D process. Furthermore, the predominant choice in a specific innovation phase for one of the three decision-making dimensions is influenced by the decision-making dimension that is dominantly employed in the preceding phase. Research limitations/implications This study contributes to the innovation decision-making literature by developing and applying a model that distinguishes rational, intuitive and political decision-making dimensions, the interactions among these dimensions in innovation decision-making in R&D, and the contingency of these dimensions upon the innovation phase. It calls for further research into the contingent nature of innovation decision-making processes. Practical implications For practitioners this study has two relevant insights. First it highlights the importance and usefulness of intuitive and political decision-making in addition to the prevailing emphasis on rational decision-making. Second, practitioners may be more alert to consciously changing their dominant decision-making approach across the phases of the innovation process. Third, companies may adjust their human resource policies to this study’s findings. Originality/value The literature on rational, intuitive and political decision-making is quite extensive. However, research has hardly studied how these decision-making dimensions develop in conjunction, and over time. This paper reports on a first study to do so and finds that the dominant use of these dimensions is contingent upon the phase of the R&D process and on the decision-making dimensions used in earlier phases. The study suggests that using a contingency approach can help to further integrate the debate in research and practice.
Linn Marie Kolbe; Bart Bossink; A.P. de Man. Contingent use of rational, intuitive and political decision-making in R&D. Management Decision 2019, 58, 997 -1020.
AMA StyleLinn Marie Kolbe, Bart Bossink, A.P. de Man. Contingent use of rational, intuitive and political decision-making in R&D. Management Decision. 2019; 58 (6):997-1020.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLinn Marie Kolbe; Bart Bossink; A.P. de Man. 2019. "Contingent use of rational, intuitive and political decision-making in R&D." Management Decision 58, no. 6: 997-1020.
This study investigates how firms invest in building and maintaining business–government (B–G) ties when they aim to innovate in regions where, due to institutional transitions, institutional contexts differ remarkably. Using data from the China Enterprise Survey of the World Bank, empirical findings suggest that the influence of B–G ties on Chinese firms’ product innovation is different in distinctive institutional contexts in China. More specifically, during institutional transition, B–G ties become less efficient for facilitating product innovation when regional legal institutions and infrastructural supporting systems in a region are more stable, fair, and efficient. By contrast, during institutional transition, a positive effect of B–G ties on firm product innovation in a region becomes more significant when financial systems are relatively advanced. In addition to this, the value of B–G ties for firm product innovation appears to be more stable when business regulation develops within subnational regions.
Chun Yang; Bart Bossink; Peter Peverelli. The Value of Business–Government Ties for Manufacturing Firms’ Product Innovation during Institutional Transition in China. Sustainability 2018, 11, 63 .
AMA StyleChun Yang, Bart Bossink, Peter Peverelli. The Value of Business–Government Ties for Manufacturing Firms’ Product Innovation during Institutional Transition in China. Sustainability. 2018; 11 (1):63.
Chicago/Turabian StyleChun Yang; Bart Bossink; Peter Peverelli. 2018. "The Value of Business–Government Ties for Manufacturing Firms’ Product Innovation during Institutional Transition in China." Sustainability 11, no. 1: 63.
To achieve sustainable development, companies are increasingly putting an emphasis on the creation and the promotion of environmentally sustainable innovations. Environmentally sustainable innovation often involves a significant shift in a new strategic direction. This paper studies this shift from a dynamic capabilities perspective and aims to identify the microfoundations of science‐based companies' dynamic capabilities for high‐tech environmentally sustainable innovations. It investigates the development of high‐tech environmentally sustainable innovations in two distinctive science‐based companies. To scholars, this study provides an in‐depth process analysis, over time, of how and why microfoundations of dynamic capabilities influence the development of a science‐based company's high‐tech environmentally sustainable innovations. To practitioners in science‐based firms, this process study can function as a frame of reference, enabling the tailoring of a strategy for high‐tech environmentally sustainable innovation.
SeyedEsmaeil Mousavi; Bart Bossink; Mario Van Vliet. Microfoundations of companies' dynamic capabilities for environmentally sustainable innovation: Case study insights from high-tech innovation in science-based companies. Business Strategy and the Environment 2018, 28, 366 -387.
AMA StyleSeyedEsmaeil Mousavi, Bart Bossink, Mario Van Vliet. Microfoundations of companies' dynamic capabilities for environmentally sustainable innovation: Case study insights from high-tech innovation in science-based companies. Business Strategy and the Environment. 2018; 28 (2):366-387.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSeyedEsmaeil Mousavi; Bart Bossink; Mario Van Vliet. 2018. "Microfoundations of companies' dynamic capabilities for environmentally sustainable innovation: Case study insights from high-tech innovation in science-based companies." Business Strategy and the Environment 28, no. 2: 366-387.
This study aims to shed light on how dynamic capabilities, i.e. sensing, seizing and reconfiguring, and their underlying organizational routines have an effect on innovation towards a greater degree of sustainability. Cross-sectional data from the Community Innovation Survey of German companies is used to test hypotheses with regard to this effect. Results from PLS-SEM analyses show that sensing, seizing, and reconfiguring capabilities all have a significant direct effect on innovation towards sustainability, with sensing activities playing the most prominent role. It is also found that reconfiguring capabilities positively influence sensing as well as seizing capabilities, and that sensing and seizing capabilities partially mediate the relationship between reconfiguring capabilities and companies' sustainable innovation. This research extends the current literature by investigating how companies could build-up and shape their dynamic capabilities and organizational routines for sustainable innovation. To practice, it offers guidance concerning appropriate and important dynamic capabilities and organizational routines for innovating towards sustainability.
SeyedEsmaeil Mousavi; Bart Bossink; Mario van Vliet. Dynamic capabilities and organizational routines for managing innovation towards sustainability. Journal of Cleaner Production 2018, 203, 224 -239.
AMA StyleSeyedEsmaeil Mousavi, Bart Bossink, Mario van Vliet. Dynamic capabilities and organizational routines for managing innovation towards sustainability. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2018; 203 ():224-239.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSeyedEsmaeil Mousavi; Bart Bossink; Mario van Vliet. 2018. "Dynamic capabilities and organizational routines for managing innovation towards sustainability." Journal of Cleaner Production 203, no. : 224-239.
A stream of literature is emerging where network development and business modeling intersect. Various authors emphasize that networks influence business models. This paper extends this stream of literature by studying two cases in which we analyze how business modeling and networking interact over time. We propose the concept ‘value shaping’ to describe this interaction. Value shaping refers to the mutually constitutive process in which on the one hand networking helps to refine and improve the overall business model and on the other hand an improved business model spurs expansion of the network. We identify five micro-level processes through which value shaping occurs. Value shaping is particularly relevant for sustainability-oriented innovations, to help clarify all the types of financial, social and environmental value to which a business model may contribute.
Inge Oskam; Bart Bossink; Ard-Pieter de Man. The interaction between network ties and business modeling: Case studies of sustainability-oriented innovations. Journal of Cleaner Production 2017, 177, 555 -566.
AMA StyleInge Oskam, Bart Bossink, Ard-Pieter de Man. The interaction between network ties and business modeling: Case studies of sustainability-oriented innovations. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2017; 177 ():555-566.
Chicago/Turabian StyleInge Oskam; Bart Bossink; Ard-Pieter de Man. 2017. "The interaction between network ties and business modeling: Case studies of sustainability-oriented innovations." Journal of Cleaner Production 177, no. : 555-566.
SeyedEsmaeil Mousavi; Bart Bossink. Firms’ capabilities for sustainable innovation: The case of biofuel for aviation. Journal of Cleaner Production 2017, 167, 1263 -1275.
AMA StyleSeyedEsmaeil Mousavi, Bart Bossink. Firms’ capabilities for sustainable innovation: The case of biofuel for aviation. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2017; 167 ():1263-1275.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSeyedEsmaeil Mousavi; Bart Bossink. 2017. "Firms’ capabilities for sustainable innovation: The case of biofuel for aviation." Journal of Cleaner Production 167, no. : 1263-1275.
This study hypothesizes and empirically tests the influence of involvement of (1) frontline employees and (2) top managers in ideation process on healthcare service innovation quality. Based on data from 168 service innovation projects in Dutch healthcare organizations, the empirical results indicate that frontline employee involvement and top management involvement in, respectively, idea generation and idea application both improve the quality of healthcare service innovation. We find that the positive effect of frontline employee involvement is stronger under the condition of higher service innovativeness. In the direct relationship of top management involvement and healthcare service innovation quality, our data do not show such a moderating effect. The key and general managerial implication of the findings is that healthcare organizations are inspired to involve frontline employees in the idea generation processes and involve top managers in the idea application processes of service innovation projects, in order to improve innovation quality.
Yu Mu; Bart Bossink; Tsvi Vinig. Employee involvement in ideation and healthcare service innovation quality. The Service Industries Journal 2017, 38, 67 -86.
AMA StyleYu Mu, Bart Bossink, Tsvi Vinig. Employee involvement in ideation and healthcare service innovation quality. The Service Industries Journal. 2017; 38 (1-2):67-86.
Chicago/Turabian StyleYu Mu; Bart Bossink; Tsvi Vinig. 2017. "Employee involvement in ideation and healthcare service innovation quality." The Service Industries Journal 38, no. 1-2: 67-86.
Bart A.G. Bossink. Demonstrating sustainable energy: A review based model of sustainable energy demonstration projects. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 2017, 77, 1349 -1362.
AMA StyleBart A.G. Bossink. Demonstrating sustainable energy: A review based model of sustainable energy demonstration projects. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 2017; 77 ():1349-1362.
Chicago/Turabian StyleBart A.G. Bossink. 2017. "Demonstrating sustainable energy: A review based model of sustainable energy demonstration projects." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 77, no. : 1349-1362.
Drawing on an integration of service-dominant (S-D) logic and the dynamic capabilities approach, this study focuses on the relatively under-researched issue of service innovation quality in healthcare services. We propose a conceptual framework for the relationships between user-induced and organisation-based renewal, and service innovation quality in the healthcare sector. By putting service innovativeness and organisational renewal at the input side of the healthcare organisations’ value creation process, and treating service innovation quality as an output, this study hypothesises direct relationships between these two ends. We conducted an empirical study in the Dutch healthcare sector. Based on data from 168 service innovation projects in Dutch healthcare organisations, the empirical study verifies these hypothesised relationships. The results reveal that both service innovativeness and organisational renewal are significant antecedents of quality improvement of the healthcare service innovations in these projects. This study provides theoretical and managerial implications for improving the quality of healthcare service innovations. The key managerial insight is that healthcare organisations are implicated to pay more attention to continuous renewal of value propositions to their users/patients, as well as to continuous renewal of their organisations’ functioning.
Yu Mu; Bart Bossink; Tsvi Vinig. Service innovation quality in healthcare: service innovativeness and organisational renewal as driving forces. Total Quality Management & Business Excellence 2017, 30, 1219 -1234.
AMA StyleYu Mu, Bart Bossink, Tsvi Vinig. Service innovation quality in healthcare: service innovativeness and organisational renewal as driving forces. Total Quality Management & Business Excellence. 2017; 30 (11-12):1219-1234.
Chicago/Turabian StyleYu Mu; Bart Bossink; Tsvi Vinig. 2017. "Service innovation quality in healthcare: service innovativeness and organisational renewal as driving forces." Total Quality Management & Business Excellence 30, no. 11-12: 1219-1234.
Although the research of sustainability transitions has shown that innovative firms have a crucial role in sustainability transitions. However, innovation management practices for innovation towards sustainability have received little theoretical and empirical attention in the literature. To innovate for sustainability, companies need to shift their focus from competitiveness alone to competitiveness and sustainability, which impacts the resources and competences of the companies for innovation. The main challenge of the companies is to identify, develop, and deploy the key resources and competences required for sustainable innovation activities. This raises questions about the organizational and managerial capabilities needed to effect innovation and change toward sustainability. This study adopts the dynamic capabilities approach to argue theoretically and to investigate empirically that firms need specific organizational and managerial capabilities to increase the degree of sustainability within their innovation activities. Cross-sectional data from the Community Innovation Survey of German manufacturing and service companies is used for testing the hypotheses advanced in this paper. Results from partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) analyses show three capabilities are necessary to innovate for sustainability; i.e., sensing, seizing, and reconfiguring. The study also identifies and confirms the organizational routines that underlie these capabilities to achieve a better fit with sustainable innovation activities. Furthermore, it is found that the importance of the capabilities for sustainable innovations is context-dependent. These findings have important theoretical and practical implications for managing innovation towards sustainability.
SeyedEsmaeil Mousavi; Bart A.G. Bossink; Mario Van Vliet. Organizational and Managerial Capabilities for Managing Innovation towards Sustainability. Academy of Management Proceedings 2017, 2017, 16744 .
AMA StyleSeyedEsmaeil Mousavi, Bart A.G. Bossink, Mario Van Vliet. Organizational and Managerial Capabilities for Managing Innovation towards Sustainability. Academy of Management Proceedings. 2017; 2017 (1):16744.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSeyedEsmaeil Mousavi; Bart A.G. Bossink; Mario Van Vliet. 2017. "Organizational and Managerial Capabilities for Managing Innovation towards Sustainability." Academy of Management Proceedings 2017, no. 1: 16744.