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Management of Innovation and Investment Activities of Enterprises in the Conditions of Digitalization to Increase Their Competitiveness in the International Market

  • Kravchuk, Nataliia;Rusinova, Olha;Desyatov, Tymofii;Lapshyn, Ihor;Alnuaimi, Ali Juma Ali Sallam
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.335-343
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    • 2022
  • The article analyzes the features of innovation and investment activities of enterprises in the context of digitalization to increase their competitiveness in the international market. Ukraine's position on the Global Innovation Index is assessed. The interrelation of management functions in the context of innovation and investment activities of enterprises is substantiated. The structure of sources of financing of innovative activity of industrial enterprises is analyzed. Trends in changes in the volume of foreign direct investment and capital investment in Ukraine are assessed. It is determined that the level of innovative development of enterprises is determined by the level of their investment support, which is determined by the level of their investment attractiveness. The components of the strategy of investment attractiveness of enterprises are outlined. Determining factors in the implementation of innovation and investment policy of enterprises are identified and the main stages that should include the processes of managing innovation and investment activities of enterprises in the context of digitalization.

Organizational Culture and Technological Innovation of SMEs in Daegu: The Moderating Effect of Job Stability and Environmental Uncertainty (대구지역 중소기업의 조직문화와 기술혁신: 고용안정성과 환경불확실성의 조절효과)

  • Im, Chae-Hyon;Shin, Jin-Kyo;Hwang, Su-Jung
    • Management & Information Systems Review
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.183-203
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    • 2012
  • This paper investigates how small-medium firms deploy organizational culture, job stability and environmental uncertainty for technological innovation(product and process innovation). This paper suggests that organizational culture has significant effects on technological innovation, that job stability and environmental uncertainty moderate relationship between organizational culture and technological innovation. To test the hypotheses, data were collected from small-medium firms. The survey data of 258 firms were collected and integrated as the empirical base for testing the hypotheses. Major results are as follows: Firstly, when organizational culture as well as control variables are considered, organizational culture had significant and positive effects on product innovation. This result implies that organizational culture is an important means by which small-medium firms can promote innovation. Secondly, the interaction between organizational culture and job stability had a positive and significant effects on product innovation. Thirdly, the interaction between organizational culture and environmental uncertainty had a positive and significant effects on product innovation and process innovation. This paper suggests implications and several future researches need to overcome the limitations of this paper.

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Industrial and Innovation Networks of the Long-live Area of Honam Region (호남 장수지역의 산업 연계와 혁신 네트워크)

  • Park Sam Ock;Song Kyung Un;Jeong Eun Jin
    • Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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    • v.40 no.1 s.106
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    • pp.78-95
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this paper is to analyze industrial and innovation networks of long-live area of Honam Region and to suggest a policy direction for regional development of rural areas where have been neglected in the knowledge-based information society. Four counties (Sunchang, Damyang, Gokseong, and Gurye) in the Southwestern region of Korea are regarded as long-live belt of Korea. Production and innovation networks :Ire analyzed based on intensive surveys of firms in the belt. Major findings from the surveys are as follows. First, there are considerably strong local networks of production firms in terms of supply of input materials and labor. There are strong backward industrial linkages of the production firms with agricultural activities and considerable forward linkages with tourism industry. In addition, Internet is becoming a useful tool for sales of the new products. Second, the analysis of the innovation networks in the long-live area suggests the development of 'virtual innovation cluster' in the era of knowledge-based information society. The results imply that this innovation networks can be developed as a virtual innovation cluster in the rural areas, which can be the basis for the development of rural innovation systems.

The Effect of Technical Innovation Competence of Small and Medium-sized Manufacturing Companies on Corporate Performance: Focusing on the Mediating Effect of Entrepreneurship (중소 제조기업의 기술혁신역량이 기업성과에 미치는 영향: 기업가정신의 매개효과를 중심으로)

  • Seo, Sunyoung;Yoon, Sunjung;Seo, Jonghyen
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.45 no.1
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    • pp.20-30
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    • 2022
  • In this study, in order to confirm the relationship between technical innovation competence and corporate performance, the effect of technical innovation competence of small and medium-sized manufacturing companies on corporate performance was identified, and entrepreneurship, which plays a role as a driving force in triggering technical innovation competence, was analyzed to determine whether there is a mediating effect between them. To conduct the research, first, the research model was established by examining previous studies on technical innovation competence, entrepreneurship, and corporate performance. Second, an on-line and offline survey was conducted for employees in companies after constructing a questionnaire that can verify the hypothesis suitable for the research model. Third, the hypothesis was verified by performing validity and reliability analysis, correlation analysis, and regression analysis using a statistical program. Results of this study, first, it was found that R&D competence and technology innovation system, which are elements of technical innovation competence, had a significant effect on financial performance, and technology innovation system and technology accumulation capacity, had a significant effect on non-financial performance. Second, it was analyzed that entrepreneurship has a mediating effect in both R&D capability, technological innovation system and technology accumulation capability, which are elements of technical innovation capability, and financial and non-financial performance, elements of corporate performance.

A Study on Factors Affecting Innovation Capability and Innovation Performance: Focused on SMEs Entering Overseas Market (혁신역량과 혁신성과에 영향을 주는 요인에 관한 연구: 해외시장진출 중소기업을 대상으로)

  • Lee, Youngdeuk;Kang, Myungsoo;Kim, Byoungjai
    • The Journal of Small Business Innovation
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.1-16
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors affecting innovation capability and innovation performance of midsize company entering overseas market. More specifically, in terms of managerial, organizational, and employee - level factors, we set leadership, operating system, and taking charge at work as variables influencing innovation capability and tried to understand the effect of innovation capability on innovation performance through empirical studies. In addition, we examined the differences in the influence factors on innovation capability and the effect on innovation performance in the home country and overseas countries. As a result of the empirical analysis, all of the influence factors had a positive effect on the innovation capability and the innovation capability had a positive effect on the innovation performance. The degree of influence was in the order of operating system, leadership and taking charge at work. In China, there is no significant difference in the order of operating system, leadership and taking charge at work. In the case of Korea, operating system and leadership have a positive effect, but the employee's taking charge at work does not affect innovation capability. The results of this study are as follows. First, it is necessary to enhance innovation capability in accordance with local characteristics. In Korea, there are additional activities to induce employee's taking charge at work is required for improved innovation capability and innovation performance.

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The Effects of Team Characteristics on the Innovation Performance in R&D Organizations : The Mediating Effect of Creative Climate (R&D조직의 창의적 팀 특성이 혁신성과에 미치는 영향 : 창의적 풍토의 매개효과)

  • Jang, Eun-Young;Kim, Byung-Keun
    • Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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    • v.41 no.4
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    • pp.75-93
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    • 2016
  • This study aims at analyzing the relationship between team characteristic and innovation performance. The mediating effect of creative climate on the team characteristic and innovation performance is also measured. Based upon literature review, individual creative characteristics, team diversity, team cohesion, task characteristics are presented as antecedents of team characteristic. Creative climate affects the creative behavior and innovative performance. Creative climate is measured as the Team Climate Inventory (TCI) proposed by Anderson & West (1998) including goal, participative-autonomy and innovative-support. Data were collected from 186 survey responses (54 Teams) out of total 462 (69 teams) from the R&D department of a major ICT firm in Korea. Empirical results show the diversity, cohesion, job characteristic, individual creative characteristic have a positive effect on the creative climate and innovation performance. The participative-autonomy climate factor appears to mediate the relationship between team characteristic (diversity, cohesion, job and individual characteristics) and innovation performance. However, the mediating effects of goals and innovative-support factors were not significant statistically. It was confirmed that the organization can contribute to improve the team innovation performance by facilitating a autonomy and participative climate as well as fostering the team characteristic.

A Study of the Innovation Resistance of Users and Intention to Use toward Smart Learning for Education Business Ventures (교육벤처창업을 위한 스마트러닝 사용자의 혁신저항과 이용의도에 관한 연구)

  • Cho, Sanghoon;Yang, Hongsuk
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.55-67
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    • 2015
  • This study examines innovation resistance to smart learning, an emerging innovative technology for startups and corporate ventures in the education market. The study explores whether the relative advantage, compatibility and complexity of an innovation, attitudes toward existing learning method(s), and perceived self-efficacy significantly affect innovation resistance. Additionally, the effects of such innovation resistance on future use and the moderating effect according to demographic characteristics are examined. The results of the analysis using a structural equation model showed that all the factors considered (except relative advantage) affects innovation resistance, innovation resistance significantly affects intention to use.

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Network Perspectives in Innovation Research: Looking Back and Moving Forward

  • HYUN, Eunjung;RHEE, Seung-Yoon
    • Asian Journal of Business Environment
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.27-37
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    • 2021
  • Purpose: This article aims to provide a balanced understanding of the structural conditions and social processes involved in the creation and diffusion of innovation. Research design, data and methodology: Drawing on organizational and economic sociology and strategic management literature, this article offers a conceptual framework that highlights the two dimensions of network structures: the vertical dimension focusing on power and legitimacy vs. the horizontal dimension highlighting information value. By organizing the literature on the functions and consequences of network, this paper advances a theoretical perspective in understanding the vast array of empirical studies on innovation involving network analysis. Results: Using the proposed framework, this article explains how the mechanisms of power, legitimacy, and information value work together with social structural factors, thus enriching our understanding of innovation. This study reveals that the information mechanism (horizontal dimension) has been most important in innovation creation and diffusion, and that trust, credibility, and legitimacy are operative in innovation diffusion. Conclusions: This paper contributes to the literature by responding to calls to extend existing frameworks to better account for the dynamics between innovation and network. In addition, this article highlights how conceptualizing innovation within the horizontal-vertical dimensions of network structures, creates new opportunities for future research.

Transformational Leadership and Innovation Capability: Roles of Knowledge-centered Culture and Knowledge Sharing

  • LE, Phong Ba;LE, Thanh Trung
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.111-121
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    • 2023
  • Given the gaps in the link between leadership, knowledge resource, and innovation capability, this study aims to examine the potential mediating role of knowledge sharing and moderating role of knowledge-centered culture in the relationship between transformational leadership and a firm's capability for innovation. This study applied the Structural Equation Modeling to try out proposal hypotheses in the research model through a questionnaire survey from a sample of 301 participators in 115 small and medium firms in the field of tourism and hotel. The findings disclosed that knowledge-sharing behaviors significantly mediate the transformational leadership-innovation relationship. It highlights the significant impact of explicit knowledge sharing in comparison with the influence of tacit knowledge sharing on innovation capability. The paper also reveals the crucial role of knowledge-centered culture in boosting the knowledge-sharing-innovation relationship. By exploring the mediating role of knowledge sharing and the moderator of knowledge-centered culture, the paper significantly brings insight into different mediating and moderating mechanisms to improve innovation capability. The paper significantly fills up the gaps and provides valuable initiatives on the mechanism of how transformational leadership and specific forms of knowledge-sharing behaviors positively affect innovation capability under the moderating role of knowledge-centered culture.