Information processing perspective on organisational innovation adoption process

For a long time, the literature on organisational innovation adoption has focused largely on the adoption choice and defined the adopter organisation as a passive information receiver. To portray a more realistic picture of the organisations of today, this study defines the adopter organisation as an active information processor. By the means of a multiple-case study, organisational innovation adoption is defined as a function of information processing activities. The study defines two key attributes of information processing: depth (the intensity of information processing devoted to consider a fit between solutions and the need) and breadth (the number of solutions processed). Depth and breadth are found to be associated with the features of the individuals participating in the process and the elements of the adopter organisation and its key business relationships. Technical education and technical experience define the individual capacity for information processing increasing the depth of these activities. Individual risk aversion and organisational sanctions seem to steer decision-making toward a democratic style that increases the depth and breadth of the activities. A strong relationship with suppliers seems to decrease, whereas the adopter company’s other business relationships seem to increase, the depth and breadth of the activities.© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.fi=vertaisarvioitu|en=peerReviewed

The interface of value creation and service process: A categorization of the relevant perspectives and an integrative framework

The focal study considers the variety in recent perspectives on value and value creation in service as a stimulant to explicate and organize differences to build toward integrative understanding. The purpose of the study is to provide a categorization of the perspectives on value and value creation and to propose an integrative framework that illustrates how value, value creation, and the service process relate to each other. The study presents a conceptual analysis on the value creation and service literatures and employs the activity system model to structure relevant elements into an integrative research framework. The study contributes to the current understanding by defining and organizing the underpinning elements of value creation and service processes as well as explicating their mutual interface in the context of service systems. This aims to deliver conceptual clarity and a base for further research

Investing in New Technology - A Case Study of a Food Processing Company

The increased turbulence, complexity and competitiveness of organizational environments have made identification, evaluation and implementation of new technological investments critical determinants of organizational productivity, competition and survival. This paper examines new technology investment decision-making process on two levels combining traditional innovation adoption and diffusion approaches by network and interaction approach of IMP-Group. Conducting this we aim to crossfertilize the chosen approaches and produce more comprehensive and integrated understanding to conceptualize investment decision-making processes on new technology. The empirical part of the study investigates an investment process in which a food processing company invested in a new microbiological quality assurance method. The internationalization of food processing industry combined with a growing amount of global raw material sourcing is posing increasing challenges for companies, authorities and governments in terms of guaranteeing the safety of food. Since improved food safety is both time consuming and expensive, food producers find it difficult to cover the resulting costs of testing. These circumstances offer an interesting and fruitful context in which to study investment decision-making process on new technology

Comparing Innovation Adoption and Organizational Buying Behavior Approaches in a Context of Technological Investment Decision-Making

The statement by Cyert, Simon and Trow [1, p. 237] that “Decision-Making – choosing one course of action rather than another, finding an appropriate solution to a new problem posed by a changing world – is commonly asserted to be the heart of executive activity in business.” holds true still after fifty years although a lot has changed in business from those days. New products are launched more frequently to markets and technological innovations alter structures of competition and disturb equilibrium of markets. These dynamics can pose not only opportunities but also threats for firms, depending upon the timing of adoption. The most innovative companies may gain competitive advantage over competitors by adopting and implementing performance improving technologies. On the other hand, the non-adopters may suffer from the improved performance of the adopters. This paper examines conceptually a process of decision-making on new technology discussing organizational buying behavior approach and innovation adoption approach in regard to general decision-making approach and finally combines these fields in order to conceptualize and understand better the process of decision-making on new technological investment

Kysynnän ennustaminen skenaariomenetelmällä korkean teknologian innovaatiolle : case: Type 1 Diabetes Research Method

Siirretty Doriast

Organisational Metamorphosis Through Balancing On A Tightrope : Identifying Tensions Of And Building Balancing Routines For Identity Change

Purpose: This article attempts to 1) identify tensions a manufacturing company faces when moving from a product provider towards a smart solution provider and 2) explicate how to build organizational routines to manage those tensions effectively. Design/Methodology/Approach: The study utilizes an extended, in-depth, longitudinal single case study method to capture a process in which the selected case firm is transforming its productbased business logic towards smart solution-based business logic. The explorative case study approach combined with qualitative enquiry provides a thick description on the key tensions and balancing routines. Findings: The study identifies different type of cognitive and behavioural tensions that are further classified into five dimensions: 1) short-term vs. long-term target setting, 2) tailored vs. standardized product-service systems, 3) product vs. customer mindset, 4) integrated vs. separated organizing, 5) exploitation vs. exploration in innovation. Associated balancing routines regarding managing tensions are identified. Originality/Value: This study analyses further balancing routines and coping practices a firm develops to address tensions stemming from firm’s identity change. These routines and practices are helpful to understand better how to navigate these complexities in practice.© 2023 The Advanced Services Group. This is an Open Access Publication developed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.fi=vertaisarvioitu|en=peerReviewed

Delineating the fuzzy front end of market shaping

Emerging perspectives define markets as continuous, malleable processes that can be shaped through various activities. In this research, the authors address the early phase of such market-shaping processes, developing a conceptual framework and linking the front-end phase to an overall market-shaping process. We propose and develop a fuzzy front end (FFE) concept centered around the market image to reflect market shaping's less organized and more exploratory early phase. Nine propositions outline this critical phase and its fundamental dimensions, roles, and characteristics. Finally, by outlining the FFE of market shaping, this article reveals future research directions for elaborating on the concept.© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).fi=vertaisarvioitu|en=peerReviewed

Structural and behavioural power dynamics in buyer-supplier relationships : a perceptions-based framework and a research agenda

Power issues are increasingly important for effective management in the networked business landscape. This article seeks to increase understanding of the power within buyer-supplier relationships. This study articulates a research framework that defines countervailing and contextual events as the drivers of relationship power dynamics on structural and behavioural power dimensions. This framework is implemented in two illustrative, longitudinal case studies of technology-intensive buyer-supplier dyads in the medical sector. For this focal study, the illustrative case studies provide a basis for exemplifying the interconnection of behavioural and structural power and actors’ perceptions thereof for articulating a perceptions-based framework. The key ideas of this framework are exemplified by a set of propositions and research questions that comprise an agenda for further research. This study contributes by introducing a holistic approach to the study of power dynamics in business relationships. For practitioners, the study explicates elements and principles for managing power in business relationships.© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.fi=vertaisarvioitu|en=peerReviewed

Building a High-Performing Collaborative Innovation Ecosystem in the Arctic

Global climate change, growing economic interest in the Arctic, and the inflow of investments into infrastructure in the Arctic regions have provided added impetus for the development of technology clusters and innovation ecosystems in the North and the Arctic. The goal of this study is to conceptually illustrate the roles of the actors involved in the development process of the innovation ecosystem in the Arctic regions. This research is crucial for optimizing the role of the actors responsible for the genesis of the innovation ecosystem in the Arctic regions and is based on a case study of the Yakutia innovation ecosystem. The Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) currently holds the leading position in the IT sphere of Far East Russia, accounting for 85% of the region’s IT services exports in the first quarter of 2020 and 82% in 2019. Yakutia develops the northernmost innovation ecosystem, with IT Park Yakutsk as its base, in collaboration with different actors from governments, universities, startup communities, and venture capital firms. This study applies a qualitative approach, with the data collection conducted using in-depth interviews. The interviewees in this study represent various actors, including businesses, governments, universities, and financial institutions. Theories developed by Dedehayir et al. (2018) and Tsujimoto et al. (2018) are used to explain and analyze the disposition, roles, and interactions of the actors during the genesis (birth phase) of the innovation ecosystem in the North. This study argues that building high-performing innovation ecosystems will produce digital and economic transformations that improve the sustainability and resilience of the societies in the Arctic.© 2021 The Authors and The Arctic Yearbook. Readers may download, distribute, photocopy, cite or excerpt this Arctic Yearbook material provided it is properly and fully credited however we do not allow commercial use or the making of derivatives.fi=vertaisarvioitu|en=peerReviewed

The rise of collaborative engagement platforms

Purpose The purpose of this study is to define and analyse the emergence of collaborative engagement platforms (CEPs) as part of a rising platformisation phenomenon. Contrary to previous literature on engagement platforms (EPs), this study distinguishes between formalised and self-organised EPs and sheds light on collaborative EPs on which heterogeneous actors operate without central control by legislated firm actors. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on institutional work theory, this paper explores the institutional rules, norms and practices involved in the emergence of a new platform. This paper implements a longitudinal case study of a local food network called REKO and explores how engagement practices and institutional work patterns catalysed its emergence during 2013–2020. Findings The findings of this study show that actors engaged within the REKO platform participated in institutional work patterns of disruption, creation and maintenance, which drove the development of the platform and ensured its viability. Research limitations/implications This paper encourages future research to further explore how different types of EPs emerge and function. Practical implications The rise of CEPs pushes the dominant managerial orientation to progress from the management “of” a platform to managing “within” a platform. For managers, this means developing novel practices for engaging and committing a versatile set of actors to nurture open-ended, multi-sided collaboration. Originality/value This study contributes by conceptualising different types of platforms with a particular focus on CEPs and explicating the engagement practices and institutional work patterns that catalyse their emergence.© Hanna Leipämaa-Leskinen, Elina Närvänen and Hannu Makkonen. Published by Emerald Publishing Limited. This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode. The authors would like to thank the editors and anonymous reviewers for their insightful and helpful comments for earlier versions of the manuscript. This work was supported by the Finnish Foundation for Economic Education [grant number 8-3794].fi=vertaisarvioitu|en=peerReviewed