Purpose: In the face of fierce international competition for those participating in global value chains (GVCs), upgrading has been a central concern of emerging market firms (EMFs) that are trying to occupy higher value-added positions. However, although the innovation capabilities (ICs) have...

Purpose: This study aims at developing a better understanding of the relationship between network embeddedness and incremental innovation capability and further examines the moderating effect of open innovation. Design/methodology/approach: This paper adopts hierarchical regressions to validate...

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to explore how technological capability and exogenous pressure interactively influence business model (BM) dynamics over time in new technology-based ventures. Design/methodology/approach: ...

This study¡¯s objective was to solve the problem of functionary mechanism between demographic structure transition and economic growth in China using cointegration and vector error correction model. The results are: (1) A long-term co-integration relationship exists among birth rate, infant...

Purpose – This paper aims to address how management practices successfully implemented somewhere else, namely adoptive management innovation, have been introduced into Chinese firms and then effectively implemented, or to investigate key activities of the generative mechanism through which an...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address how management innovations are implemented deeply at the most micro level of organizations, namely, organizational routines, or to investigate the process through which organizational routines evolve in implementing management innovations, with...