OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Innovation Management is 15. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Exaptive innovation in constraint-based environments: lessons from COVID-19 crisis	197
Innovation conviction, innovation mindset and innovation creed as precursors for the need for achievement and women's entrepreneurial success in South Africa: entrepreneurial education as a moderator	102
Generative AI as a transformative force for innovation: a review of opportunities, applications and challenges	93
Why established collaborative networks fail to drive organizational innovation efficiency – from an internal knowledge network perspective	88
Metaverse adoption and its implications for entrepreneurial innovation management: the influence of Gen Z’s perception of innovation, privacy and trust	79
Perceived insider status and employees' innovative behavior: the role of knowledge sharing and organizational innovation climate	76
Impact of advice network centrality on innovative work behavior: the moderating role of multiplex network embeddedness	75
Reconfiguring competitive advantage: a resource dynamic framework for generative AI adoption in digital content marketing	69
The impact mechanism of marketing technology (MARTECH) on the workplace liking of sales employees	61
A three-stage framework of digital ecosystem orientation of hub firms: insights from a qualitative meta-analysis	59
Disentangling the relationship between business model, absorptive capacity, differentiation strategy and performance. Evidence from a transition economy	59
Pathways to twin transformation in SMEs: the role of innovation ecosystems	59
Assessing the effect of open innovation on firm performance: a study of Indian IT organisations	59
Executive shareholding, institutional investor shareholding and enterprise innovation	57
Mentors' motives and mentoring functions: comparing social and commercial new ventures	52
Unraveling the impact of IT resources on firm performance: a mediated-moderated model	51
How and when generative AI use affects employee incremental and radical creativity: an empirical study in China	51
Impact of ambidextrous human resource practices on employee innovation performance: the roles of inclusive leadership and psychological safety	51
Young adults’ pathway to digital entrepreneurship: from ideas to innovation	49
Innovation in the supply chain and big data: a critical review of the literature	45
Exploring measures to enhance the low adoption rate of IR 4.0 technologies: a qualitative inquiry with hotels during COVID-19	44
Exploring the effects of digital transformation from a dual (internal vs external) marketing management perspective	43
Board gender diversity in innovative SMEs: an investigation across industrial sectors	43
How to benefit from digital platform capabilities? Examining the role of knowledge bases and organisational routines updating	43
A review of the literature on innovation in the agrofood industry: sustainability, smartness and health	43

Innovation and human resource management: a systematic literature review	41
Managing open innovation within supply networks in mature industries	40
Unraveling the transformation: the three-wave time-lagged study on big data analytics, green innovation and their impact on economic and environmental performance in manufacturing SMEs	40
How can tourism managers' happiness be generated through personal and innovative tourism services?	40
More capable, more innovative? An empirical inquiry into the effects of dynamic managerial capabilities on digital firms' innovativeness	40
How do green intellectual and co-creational capitals drive artificial intelligence innovation and green innovation in start-ups?	39
From curiosity to innovativeness: the mediating mechanisms of cultural intelligence and knowledge sharing behaviour	38
Fostering green innovation: the roles of big data analytics capabilities and green supply chain integration	38
Modelling organizational resilience structure: insights to assess resilience integrating bounce-back and bounce-forward	37
Weaving public policies and innovation ecosystems: integrative insights for sustainable development and strategic collaboration	37
Innovation dynamics in public funding: a comparative analysis of social economy and capitalist organisations in public–private partnerships	36
Niche fitness of digital innovation ecosystems: evaluation, dynamic evolution and spatial effects	36
Returnee firms, R&D input and innovation performance: critical roles of political and economic stakeholders	36
FinTech as a digital innovation in microfinance companies – systematic literature review	36
Innovation and happiness management enhancing transcendence at work in the banking sector in Spain	34
On the verge of Industry 5.0: a socio-technical perspective on non-knowledge workers and workplace well-being	34
Crowdsourcing initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic: empirical evidence from the Italian context	34
Building the future through digital entrepreneurship and innovation	34
Visiting museums via augmented reality: an experience fast-tracking the digital transformation of the tourism industry	33
Sustainable supply chain in a new technological era: the case of the Italian agrifood sector	33
Impact of network embeddedness on innovation performance: the perspective of organisational routine updating	33
Business model innovation in the food sector: towards a dimensional framework for analyzing the value proposition of digital platforms for food information services	32
Opening up to innovation: emotional intelligence as an intrapersonal resource	31
Exploring the influence of CEO overconfidence on innovation in artificial intelligence technology: a machine learning approach	31
Decoding the data economy: a literature review of its impact on business, society and digital transformation	30
The interplay between Industry 4.0 and their impact on freight transportation sustainability	30
Does generation matter to innovation development? A new look at entrepreneurial businesses from the perspective of resource-based view (RBV)	30
Collaboration with universities and innovation efficiency: do relationship depth and organizational routines matter?	29
Matching innovation strategies and crowdfunding campaigns: an explorative investigation	29
Discovering the phygital customer experience: which digital technologies influence leading companies’ processes?	28
Breakthrough teams in incumbent firms: how relational climate and boundary mechanisms affect radical innovations	28
Industry 4.0 base technologies and business models: a bibliometric analysis	27
The impact of leaders' negative emotions on employee innovation in the digital workplace	27
Effects of virtual try-on technology as an innovative e-commerce tool on consumers' online purchase intentions	26
Breaking traditions: an investigation of innovation risk-taking among copreneurships post-IPO	26
Linking innovation and firm performance in an emerging market: does supply chain play a mediation role?	26
Investigating the factors affecting green innovation of service sector: a moderated mediation model	26
Crowdfunding and innovation: a bibliometric review and future research agenda	26
Social capital as the main driver of organizationally valuable innovation	25
Knowledge management strategies and open innovation: new perspective	25
Rethinking innovation through industry and society 5.0 paradigms: a multileveled approach for management and policy-making	25
Digital transformation in wine business – from Marketing 5.0 to Industry 5.0 in the world of wine adopting artificial intelligence	25
Digitalization of information provided by destination marketing organizations in developing regions: the case of Vietnamese Mekong Delta	24
Can market knowledge lead to radical product innovation performance? The double-edged sword effect of absorptive capacity	24
The role of online communities in shaping the Society 5.0 paradigm: a social capital perspective	24
Walking the managerial tightrope: top management involvement in product innovation projects	24
When do AI investments pay off? Evidence from stock market responses to innovation and alliances	23
Ownership structure and technological innovation: an investigation of Tunisian agri-food companies	23
Diversity 5.0 framework: managing innovation in Industry 5.0 through diversity and inclusion	23
Unveiling the impact of technological innovation and SMEs resilience: the moderating role of firms' social sustainability orientation	23

Big data and human resource management: paving the way toward sustainability	23
Does broader mean more general? Decomposing the effect of knowledge breadth on R&D and spillover of generic technology	23
The impact of social and organisational capital on service innovation capability during COVID-19: the mediating role of strategic environmental scanning	23
Understanding dynamic capabilities in emerging technology markets: antecedents, sequential nature, and impact on innovation performance in the extended reality industry	22
Thriving in management innovation: an institutional perspective	22
When is research and development more effective in times of crisis? The role of environmental policies	22
Comparative analysis on R&D internationalization under economy-level technological disparities and ownership-specific technological differences	22
Fail forward: the relationship between innovation failure and breakthrough innovation in the context of knowledge- based capabilities	21
Digital transformation and the spillover of green innovation: evidence from peer firms in heavily polluting industries	21
User innovation rings the bell for new horizons in e-health: a bibliometric analysis	21
Believing in the power of belief: a study on the formation mechanism of innovative behavior from the perspectives of intrinsic and extrinsic spiritual inspiration	21
Do knowledge-oriented leadership and knowledge management capabilities help firms to stimulate ambidextrous innovation: moderating role of technological turbulence	20
Effects of open climate on innovation radicality in SMEs: relevance of hidden innovation	20
Internal organizational networks and green innovation performance in Chinese new ventures: the roles of corporate proactive environmental strategy and the regulatory quality	20
How do human relationships change in the digital environment after COVID-19 pandemic? The road towards agility	20
Digital marketing adoption by small travel agencies: a comprehensive PLS-SEM model using reflective and higher-order formative constructs	20
“ Every idea made life easier :” A critical discourse analysis of creative employee-driven innovation in the Italian healthcare system	20
Effects of the UNE 166.002 standards on the incremental and radical product innovation and organizational performance	20
R&D team network configurations, knowledge diversity and breakthrough innovation: a combined effect framework	20
Unleashing family firms' potential to do more with less: product innovation efficiency, family involvement in TMTs and technological collaborations	20
Three-dimensional institutional equivalence: how industry, community, and network peers influence corporate innovation quality in China	20
Digital technology and entrepreneurship: unveiling the bridging role of digital innovation	20
How do Chinese SMEs enhance technological innovation capability? From the perspective of innovation ecosystem	20
Unleashing innovation and agility: interaction between intellectual capital and supply chain analytics	19
Top management team resource-based faultline and corporate green innovation: empirical evidence from listed Chinese manufacturing companies	19
Knowledge recombination, environmental turbulence and firms' innovation quality: the evidence from Chinese pharmaceutical industry	19
Exploring the relationship between entrepreneurial ecosystem inputs and outcomes: the role of digital technology adoption	19
Publisher’s Note	19
Open innovation at the digital frontier: unraveling the paradoxes and roadmaps for SMEs' successful digital transformation	19
Quantity or quality? The effect of green finance on enterprise green technology innovation	19
Strategic synergy implementation in the evolution of platform ecosystems: a case study of Xiaomi ecosystem	19
The influence of the institutional environment on AI adoption in universities: identifying value drivers and necessary conditions	18
Leveraging the supply base for innovation: how does supply base management affect innovation performance?	18
Exploring institutional pressure, the top management team's response, green innovation adoption, and firm performance: evidence from Taiwan's electrical and electronics industry	18
Top management team social capital and business model innovation: moderating role of business ecosystem health	18
Food start-ups: leveraging digital marketing and disruptive information systems innovations to survive in the post-COVID environment	17
The operationalization of antifragility through organizational slack and the moderating effect of firms reliance on collaborative networks	17
The role of organization intermediaries in science-/techno-push versus user-centric approaches in health care innovation	17
How can digitalisation help emerging marketing multinational companies improve innovation performance through international ambidexterity? Analysis of China’s healthcare industry	17
Smart tourism: antecedents to Indian traveller's decision	17
The innovation potential of Islamic crowdfunding platforms in contributing to sustainable development	17
Data-driven supply chain orientation and innovation: the role of capabilities and information complexity	17
Opening the black box of interaction modes on collaborative innovation in SMEs: collaborator type, knowledge type and spatial proximity	16
A meta-analysis of the antecedents and consequences of perceived innovativeness: a customer-centric perspective	16
E-entrepreneurial attitudes and behaviours in the United Arab Emirates: an empirical investigation in the digital transformation era	16
The main risk factors for rural innovation in Europe: an analysis of 200 case studies	16
Why large corporations engage with start-ups?: Analyzing the drivers and barriers through the MCDM tool of Fuzzy AHP	16
Survival of the fittest: the multiple paths of entrepreneurial leadership driving adaptive innovation in uncertain environment	16
Sustainable leadership and heterogeneous knowledge sharing: the model for frugal innovation	16
How market orientation affects open innovation? Exploring the role of information and communication technology capability	16
Adoption of cryptocurrencies for remittances in the UAE: the mediation effect of consumer innovation	16
Simmelian ties for SMEs' green-innovation improvement in manufacturing industries: mediating and moderating effects	15
Cultural heritage experiences in the metaverse: analyzing perceived value and behavioral intentions	15
Human capital and micro-business performance: the effective roles of bricolage and technology adoption in times of crises	15
Political skills matter: the role of academic entrepreneurs in team innovation	15
Deep and organizational learning as innovation catalyzer in digital business ecosystems – a scenario analysis on the tourism destination Berlin	15
Exploring the antecedents of frugal innovation and operational performance: the role of organizational learning capability and entrepreneurial orientation	15
Customer experience management (CXM) and new product success: an empirical investigation	15