Portfolio of Intangible Investments and Production and Innovation Performance: Evidence from Taiwanese Manufacturing Firms *

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi‐Chi Hsiao ◽  
Mei‐Lan Lo ◽  
Chia‐Ling Lin ◽  
Hui‐Lin Lin
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Intangible Investments

scholarly journals Accelerating Green Innovation Performance from the Relations of Network Potential, Absorptive Capacity, and Environmental Turbulence

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 7765
Author(s):  
Shuizheng Song ◽  
Md Altab Hossin ◽  
Xiaohua Yin ◽  
Md Sajjad Hosain
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Bootstrap Method ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Environmental Turbulence ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Green Innovation ◽  
The Relationship

The demand for sustainable development and the advantages of industries are expediting over time with the triggering of green innovation performance (GIP). Improving a firm’s GIP, especially in manufacturing industries, can accelerate green development and mitigate the global-concerned environmental issues. Thus, to investigate GIP from its antecedent factors, we delineate the relationship between network potential, absorptive capacity, environmental turbulence, and GIP based on social network theory, organizational learning theory, and contingency theory. We tested our hypotheses based on 233 sets of questionnaire surveys from high-tech manufacturing firms in China through deploying the hierarchical regression and bootstrap method. Our empirical findings reveal that the network potential dimensions, including network position centrality (NPC), network structure richness (NSR), and network relationship closeness (NRC), significantly positively impacted the GIP. The absorptive capacity (AC) partially mediated the relationship between the network potential dimensions and GIP. Environmental turbulence (ET) as an essential mechanism not only positively moderated the relationship between AC and GIP but also enhanced the AC mediation effect. These findings indicate that manufacturing firms should continue to improve network potential and AC and respond rapidly to changes in the external environment to enhance GIP, consequently contributing to the sustainable development of the economy.

Identifying the factors determining cooperative innovation effect in emerging economies

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 366-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuemei Xie ◽  
Saixing Zeng ◽  
Zhipeng Zang ◽  
Hailiang Zou
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Internal Capabilities ◽  
Collaborative Innovation

Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify the factors determining collaborative innovation effect of manufacturing firms in emerging economies. Design/methodology/approach Based on a survey of 1,206 Chinese manufacturing firms and using structural equation modelling, this study explores the factors determining the effect of collaborative innovation among manufacturing firms (namely, internal capabilities, government policies, collaboration mechanisms and social networks) and examines the relationship between collaborative innovation effect and innovation performance. Findings The study finds that there are significantly positive relationships between firms’ internal capabilities, government policies, collaboration mechanisms and social networks and collaborative innovation effect among firms. Practical implications These findings reveal that policymakers should create an effective institutional culture and market environment to facilitate firms’ collaborative innovation. Originality/value This paper draws on the resource-based view of firms and contributes to understanding of how the development of factors determining firms’ collaborative innovation effect can improve innovation performance. This study extends established frameworks on collaborative innovation in relation to four dimensions, namely, firms’ internal capabilities, government policies, collaboration mechanisms and social networks, uniquely identifying the limits of specific dimensions. Moreover, this study addresses government policies and “Guanxi culture” specific to China that provide new insights into how firms’ collaborative innovation is improved from the perspectives of business–governmental relations and social networks.

AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING PRACTICES AND INNOVATION PERFORMANCE ON ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

2015 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Hami ◽  
M.R. Muhammad ◽  
Z. Ebrahim
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Sustainable Manufacturing ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This study analyzes the causal relationship between sustainable manufacturing practice (SMP) and environmental sustainability as well as determines the mediating effect of innovation performance (IP) on the relationship between SMP and environmental sustainability. Adaptation from the changing business environment, manufacturing firms are facing great challenge on producing more products with less resource consumption, pollution emitted and waste generated. Using structural equation modeling, the survey data collected from 150 Malaysian manufacturing firms has been analyzed in this study. The empirical results show that both types of SMP have a positive and significant impact on environmental sustainability with external SMP is greater than internal SMP. However, there is no significant evidence to prove IP as a mediator for SMP-environmental sustainability linkage. The findings of this paper have important implication in both theoretical and practical perspectives. While provide better understanding of the phenomena by simultaneously analyzing a series of dependence relationships among SMP, IP and environmental sustainability, these results could help managers to understand the types of practices that would improve their environmental performance.  

INTERORGANISATIONAL COLLABORATION FOR INNOVATION IMPROVEMENT IN MANUFACTURING FIRMS’S: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF SOCIAL PERFORMANCE

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (05) ◽  
pp. 2050049 ◽  
Author(s):  
USAMA AWAN ◽  
ROBERT SROUFE
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Social Performance ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Performance Practices ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Impact

The impact of collaboration on innovation performance has been investigated in many studies. This study provides a unique view on innovation performance by exploring the mediating role of social performance between collaboration and innovation performance. For this, a structural model was tested through an empirical investigation with partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) using a sample made up of 239 export manufacturing firms. The results of the empirical study show that social performance appears to be a necessary condition for innovation performance. Our findings confirm the great potential of addressing social concern increasingly drive innovation performance. The next decade is likely to be a period of rapidly expanding social performance practices in the manufacturing firms. The managers could foster sustainable innovation by collaborating customers and enhance their firm social performance.

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