Impact of eco-embeddedness and strategic flexibility on innovation performance of non-core firms: The perspective of ecological legitimacy

Zang, Shuwei; Wang, Haofu; Jian, Zhou

doi:10.1016/j.jik.2022.100266

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“…SF mediates the association between entrepreneurial leadership and innovation performance; additionally, SF increases performance in radical innovation both in a certain situation and an environment with technological turbulence [ 40 , 41 ]. To expand firms’ resource pools and establish co-collaboration in innovation activities, SF partially mediates the relationship among the eco-embeddedness position, eco-embeddedness relation, and innovation performance of non-core firms [ 42 ]. In the organizations’ mechanism of acquiring external knowledge, SF also plays a mediator role [ 43 ].…”

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Impact of Environmental Uncertainties and Strategic Flexibility in Innovation Activities on NEV Battery Recycling Firms in China

Liu

2023

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Due to the popularization and development of new energy vehicles (NEVs) worldwide, power batteries that have been used are being retired and replaced. In China’s battery recycling industry, the legal NEV battery recycling enterprises are at a negative financial performance. Based on theory of organizational adaptation, the key to innovation performance and sustainable development is recognition of the environment and strengthening organizational flexibility. This study empirically explores the bidirectional dynamic relationships among heterogeneous environmental uncertainties, innovation activities, firm growth and strategic flexibility in Chinese NEV battery recycling firms. A total of 1040 sample data were collected from 2015 to 2021. The research results demonstrate that environmental uncertainty (EU), strategic flexibility (SF) and innovation activities (INNO) all had impacts on firm growth (FG). Specifically, INNO had strongly negative effects in the short term, and in the long term, it will bring a positive effect to FG; the impact of EPU was more important than market uncertainty (MU) to FG and innovation activities. This could be due to the dependence of the Chinese NEV battery recycling industry on government policy. However, MU has a strong impact on SF. Moreover, the levels of SF should be reasonable, otherwise it could be a burden to enterprises. There also exists the bidirectional dynamic relationships between FG and INNO. This study contributes a non-core perspective to strategic flexibility research by revealing the complex environmental mechanism, and to the Chinese NEV battery recycling industry we provide a theoretical basis and practical guidance for government and firms on how to apply SF to promote innovation and realize growth in the present business environment.

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Impact of Environmental Uncertainties and Strategic Flexibility in Innovation Activities on NEV Battery Recycling Firms in China

Liu

2023

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“…The innovation ecosystem is a dynamically coordinated system composed of many different actors, such as the government, enterprises, universities, research institutions, and financial institutions [6][7][8]. Specifically, by aggregating the advantageous resources of all innovation actors embedded in the system, the innovation ecosystem can provide solid resources and a sufficient innovation impetus for green innovation projects involving government-industry-university-research cooperation [9]. For instance, Haier Group built HOPE, an open innovation ecosystem, to cooperate with its upstream suppliers, research institutions, and universities for the purpose of jointly developing new technologies and products [3,10].…”

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“…Moreover, how the resources in innovation ecosystems can be transformed into green innovation ability is crucial for SMMEs [9,14]. Green value co-creation practices (GVCCPs) are common processes in which actors achieve common goals [16], so they are important in the process of resource transformation in SMMEs.…”

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How Can Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturing Enterprises Improve Green Innovation Performance through Innovation Ecosystems?

Li,

Gao,

Zhang

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Under the fierce business competition and sustainable development pressure, the pattern of enterprise innovation has gradually changed from independent innovation to cooperative innovation. As a collection of multi-type innovation actors, the innovation ecosystem provides opportunities and platforms for cooperative innovation among government–industry–university–research institutions. While the present studies on innovation ecosystems are mostly from the perspective of the system level, few studies pay attention to the innovation mechanism of small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMMEs) in the innovation ecosystem. Therefore, this study takes SMMEs embedded in innovation ecosystems as research objects and explores the factors affecting green innovation. We constructed a theoretical model to explain the effect of innovation eco-embeddedness on green innovation performance based on ecosystem theory and network embeddedness theory; we then collected 363 samples of SMMEs in China through surveys and further tested the data empirically. The results show that the innovation eco-embeddedness (IEE) of SMMEs has a positive effect on their green innovation performance (GIP), and their green value co-creation practices (GVCCPs) partially mediate the relationship between IEE and GIP. Moreover, ecological norms (ENs) in the innovation ecosystem not only positively moderate the impact of IEE on GVCCPs but also positively moderate the mediating role of GVCCPs. This study enriches the relevant research on innovation ecosystems from the perspective of non-core enterprises and provides a theoretical basis and practical reference for SMMEs to implement green innovation practices and realize growth through innovation ecosystems.

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“…The concept of strategic flexibility is well studied in strategic management literature owing to its ability to help firms improve firm performance (Combe et al , 2012; Nadkarni and Narayanan, 2007; Saini and Johnson, 2005; Verdú-Jover et al , 2014; Kafetzopoulos et al , 2022). Researchers have discussed the impact of strategic flexibility on firm performance in various contexts like industry clockspeed (Nadkarni and Narayanan, 2007), CEO personality (Nadkarni and Herrmann, 2010), innovative human resource practices (Xiu et al , 2017), strategic orientations, (Han and Zhang, 2021) and innovation performance (Zang et al , 2022) among others. However, there is a dearth of studies that have studied flexibility through business model innovation (BMI).…”

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The influence of strategic flexibility on SME performance: is business model innovation the missing link?

Bashir¹

2023

IJIS

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of strategic flexibility on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) performance, and how such effects are mediated by business model innovation (BMI). Design/methodology/approach Data was collected in the form of surveys from 200 SMEs located in Saudi Arabia. The collected data were analyzed with structural equation modeling using Amos 23. Findings The results highlighted that strategic flexibility has a direct and significant influence on SME performance. Moreover, BMI partially mediates the relationship between strategic flexibility and SME performance. Research limitations/implications The findings of this study suggest that managers should be made aware that strategic flexibility can be an important driver for BMI which in turn would enhance SME performance. This study argues that the perks of strategic flexibility are irrespective of firm size. Furthermore, BMI can help improve the performance of SMEs by unlocking new opportunities for value creation and value capture Originality/value To the best of the author’s knowledge, this study is one of the first to test the relationship between strategic flexibility and SME performance through BMI.

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Impact of eco-embeddedness and strategic flexibility on innovation performance of non-core firms: The perspective of ecological legitimacy

Cited by 22 publications

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Impact of Environmental Uncertainties and Strategic Flexibility in Innovation Activities on NEV Battery Recycling Firms in China

Impact of Environmental Uncertainties and Strategic Flexibility in Innovation Activities on NEV Battery Recycling Firms in China

How Can Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturing Enterprises Improve Green Innovation Performance through Innovation Ecosystems?

The influence of strategic flexibility on SME performance: is business model innovation the missing link?

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