The influence of supply chain on the innovation process: a systematic literature review

Zimmermann, Ricardo; Ferreira, L. S.; Moreira, António Carrizo

doi:10.1108/scm-07-2015-0266

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“…Our research revealed the facilitative role of the four dimensions of power (Hardy, 1996) within knowledge integration for innovation projects in supply chains and their inter-dimensional relationships, thereby also addressing a call for empirical studies of innovation facilitators in supply chains (Zimmermann et al, 2016). It confirms Swan and Scarbrough's (2005) suggested applicability of the power of the system to knowledge integration in supply chains.…”

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Multiple dimensions of power influencing knowledge integration in supply chains

2016

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This study investigates how multiple dimensions of power each facilitate knowledge integration within innovation projects in supply chains and their interrelationships. Adopting a process perspective of knowledge, we offer an alternative to much of the existing debate, which has focussed on the possession of resources. We collected data from four case‐study Original Equipment Manufacturers and six associated suppliers and analysed these using Template Analysis and cross‐case analysis. Our findings reveal how the power of the system, operationalized through relative performance measures, performance measurement mechanisms and the individuals in‐charge of them, provides a facilitative context within which other dimensions of power operate. Here, the power of resources (expert and legitimate power), processes (associated with raising issues, cross‐functional teams, early supplier involvement and reviews) and meaning (creating legitimacy through reviews) interact to support knowledge integration within innovation projects in supply chains. This, we argue, emphasises the plurality of power dimensions deployed and importance of their interrelationships in facilitating knowledge integration within hierarchical supply chain networks.

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Multiple dimensions of power influencing knowledge integration in supply chains

2016

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“…According to resource-based theory, valuable, rare, and inimitable resources determine the firm's sustainable competitive advantage (Barney, 1991), and the firm needs to explore, utilize, and integrate different special knowledge from external R&D activities and internal resources (Grant, 1996). As suggested by Zimmermann, Ferreira, and Moreira (2016), a firm needs to obtain knowledge resources from external partners to enhance innovation. Ardito, Petruzzelli, Pascucci, and Peruffo (2019) and Liao and Long (2019) also highlighted the importance of cooperation with external partners, which enable firms to acquire external knowledge and develop green innovation.…”

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Boundary‐spanning search and firms' green innovation: The moderating role of resource orchestration capability

2019

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Building on resource-based theory and resource orchestration theory, we investigate the impact of two characteristics of boundary-spanning search, search breadth and search depth, on firms' exploitative and exploratory green innovations. We also examine the moderating role of resource orchestration capability. The results of data analysis from 186 manufacturing firms in China show that both search breadth and search depth have inverted U-shaped relationships with exploitative and exploratory green innovations. Furthermore, resource orchestration capability is found to moderate the inverted U-shaped relationship between boundary-spanning search and green innovation. Specifically, with high resource orchestration capability, the inverted U-shaped relationships of search breadth with exploitative and exploratory green innovations are flattened, whereas the relationships of search depth with exploitative and exploratory green innovations are almost linear. Our research contributes to the literature on green innovation by uncovering the complex effects of boundary-spanning search on exploitative and exploratory green innovations. KEYWORDS boundary-spanning search, exploitative green innovation, exploratory green innovation, resource orchestration capability, sustainable development

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“…Innovation is considered the main way to achieve economic growth and competitiveness (Lawson & Samson, 2001;Zimmermann et al, 2016). A distinct concept of innovativeness, "innovation" is the capacity to develop and implement new products (Ettlie & Rubenstein, 1981).…”

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Renewing the sawmill industry: studies on innovation, customer value and digitalization

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2019

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The sawmill industry's current business strategies are based on traditional, productionoriented business logic. However, the ruling sources of competitiveness (lower prices and higher production volumes) are no longer sufficient to maintain the industry's profitability. A shift from manufacturing to service economy includes vast potential to improve customer value and, hence, business performance. The service view suggests that instead of being created by production, customer value derives from processes in which the provider supports the customer's value creation. This view positions the customer at the core of the business and challenges prevailing business approaches within traditional industries.The goal of this thesis is to explore the sawmill industry's business transformation toward customer orientation and service-based business. As firms do not operate in isolation from their surrounding business environment, the entire wood products industry is considered. Service logic was used as the research frame to accentuate the value-based business approach. The novelty of this thesis is applying customer orientation to improve the forest industry's innovation and competitiveness. Digitalization is a core of innovation and offers potential to take customer orientation to a new level. Therefore, two closely connected concepts with customer orientation, innovation and digitalization, were also studied. Both interviews and case studies were used, comprising a total of 36 semi-structured interviews. This thesis suggests that by positioning customers at the core of the business and by applying service-based business practices, the sawmill industry is in better position to achieve longterm competitiveness. This idea, however, necessitates significant strategic changes, questioning existing practices and principles of the entire wood products industry. The first step in the change toward a customer-oriented business (i.e., service-based business) is to gain more understanding of customer orientation and embrace this approach as an organization-wide attitude, not only within the sawmill industry, but throughout wood value chains.

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The influence of supply chain on the innovation process: a systematic literature review

Cited by 107 publications

References 64 publications

Multiple dimensions of power influencing knowledge integration in supply chains

Multiple dimensions of power influencing knowledge integration in supply chains

Boundary‐spanning search and firms' green innovation: The moderating role of resource orchestration capability

Renewing the sawmill industry: studies on innovation, customer value and digitalization

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