Home   >   CSC-OpenAccess Library   >    Manuscript Information
Examining Innovation Capability In A Supply Chain Context
Faisal Iddris
Pages - 62 - 71     |    Revised - 31-05-2018     |    Published - 30-06-2018
Volume - 9   Issue - 1    |    Publication Date - June 2018  Table of Contents
MORE INFORMATION
KEYWORDS
Innovation Capability, Supply Chain, Collaboration, Idea Management, Innovation Strategy.
ABSTRACT
The current competitive business environment demands that firms are able to integrate operational capabilities of their supply chain members in order to develop, produce and deliver offerings at low cost and high quality. In order to understand innovation capability in a supply chain context, this paper provides an in-depth analysis of 'Comfort Audio', a leading company in medical technology in Sweden, which show incredible ability to develop innovative solutions and medical products over the years. A single case study was adopted in this study, which enabled in-depth analysis of the case company.

Findings, highlight, innovation capability factors is made up of: idea management, interactive learning, collaboration and idea implementation. In addition, consultants were found to be one of the key supply chain members contributing to the firm's innovation capability. The main theoretical contribution of the study is that innovation capability of a firm has been found to go beyond the internal capabilities that a focal firm owns or possesses, but rather through the access and utilisation of external actors' resources and capabilities, as a result of exchange relationships with the supply chain members.
CITED BY (1)  
1 Díaz Padilla, V. T. (2020). Competitividad turística y benchmarking de destinos a través del modelo del World Economic Forum. Una aplicación del modelo de rasch.
1 Google Scholar 
2 Semantic Scholar 
3 BibSonomy 
4 Biblioteca Digital 
5 Doc Player 
6 Scribd 
7 Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet (DIVA) 
8 SlideShare 
A. Brem, K.-I. Voigt, Innovation management in emerging technology ventures-the concept of an integrated idea management, International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management, 7 (2007) 304-321.
A. Salter, A.L.J. Ter Wal, P. Criscuolo, O. Alexy, Open for Ideation: Individual-Level Openness and Idea Generation in R&D, Journal of Product Innovation Management, 32 (2015) 488-504.
B. Lawson, D. Samson, Developing innovation capability in organisations: a dynamic capabilities approach, International journal of innovation management, 5 (2001) 377-400.
B. Vandenbosch, A. Saatcioglu, S. Fay, Idea Management: A Systemic View*, Journal of Management Studies, 43 (2006) 259-288.
C. Van Winkelen, G. Tovstiga, Understanding an organisation's knowledge-enabled innovation capability, International Journal of Knowledge Management Studies, 3 (2009) 97-115.
C.A. Soosay, P.W. Hyland, M. Ferrer, Supply chain collaboration: capabilities for continuous innovation, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, 13 (2008) 160-169.
C.C. Hsu, K.C. Tan, V.R. Kannan, G. Keong Leong, Supply chain management practices as a mediator of the relationship between operations capability and firm performance, International Journal of Production Research, 47 (2009) 835-855.
C.L. Wang, P.K. Ahmed, The development and validation of the organisational innovativeness construct using confirmatory factor analysis, European Journal of Innovation Management, 7 (2004) 303-313.
Comfort Audio, Supply Chain meeting, Available from: http://www.comfortaudio.com/blog/distributor-meeting-2013/ (9 April 2015), (2013).
D.R. Gianmario Verona, Unbundling dynamic capabilities: an exploratory study of continuous product innovation, Industrial and Corporate Change, Volume 12, Issue 3, Pages 577-606, (2003).
E. Delbufalo, A. Adcroft, A. Adcroft, The influence of supply network structure on firm's multiple innovation capabilities: a longitudinal study in the fashion industry, Management Decision, 53 (2015) 1-31.
E. Von Hippel, The sources of innovation. New York: Oxford University Press., (1988).
F. Iddris, Innovation Capability: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda, IJIKM, 11 (2016).
F.L. Mariotto, P.P. Zanni, G.H.S. Moraes, What is the use of a single-case study in management research?, Revista de Administração de Empresas, 54 (2014) 358-369.
G.B. Awuah, A professional services firm's competence development, Industrial marketing management, 36 (2007) 1068-1081.
H. HÃ¥kansson, I. Snehota, Developing relationships in business networks, Routledge Londres, 1995.
J. Barney, Firm resources and sustained competitive advantage, Journal of management, 17 (1991) 99-120.
J. Bessant, A. Alexander, G. Tsekouras, H. Rush, R. Lamming, Developing innovation capability through learning networks, Journal of Economic Geography, 12 (2012) 1087-1112.
J. Björkdahl, S. Börjesson, Assessing firm capabilities for innovation, International Journal of Knowledge Management Studies, 5 (2012) 171-184.
J.S. Brown, P. Duguid, Organizational learning and communities-of-practice: Toward a unified view of working, learning, and innovation, Organization science, 2 (1991) 40-57.
K. Möller, S. Svahn, Managing strategic nets a capability perspective, Marketing theory, 3 (2003) 209-234.
K.H. Tan, Y.Z. Zhan, G.J. Ji, F. Ye, C. Chang, Harvesting big data to enhance supply chain innovation capabilities: An analytic infrastructure based on deduction graph, International Journal of Production Economics, 165 (2015) 223-233.
K.L. Anna, Comfort Focus and auditor sequencing http://www.comfortaudio.com/cms/documents/pdfupload/archive/comfortfocusandauditorysequencing1404_1401970925.pdf Accessed 21 April 2018, (2014).
L. Nilsson, M. Elg, B. Bergman, Managing ideas for the development of new products, International Journal of Technology Management, 24 (2002) 498-513.
M. Swink, Building collaborative innovation capability, Research-technology management, 49 (2006) 37-47.
M.G. Jacobides, S.G. Winter, The co-evolution of capabilities and transaction costs: explaining the institutional structure of production, Strategic Management Journal, 26 (2005) 395-413.
N. Aramburu, J. Saenz, Structural capital, innovation capability, and size effect: An empirical study, Journal of Management & Organization, 17 (2011) 307-325.
O.M. Bjelland, R.C. Wood, An Inside View of IBM's' Innovation Jam', MIT Sloan management review, 50 (2008) 32-40.
P.W. Meyers, G.A. Athaide, Strategic mutual learning between producing and buying firms during product innovation, The Journal of Product Innovation Management, 8 (1991) 155-169.
R.J. Calantone, S.T. Cavusgil, Y.S. Zhao, Learning orientation, firm innovation capability, and firm performance, Industrial Marketing Management, 31 (2002) 515-524.
R.K. Yin, Case study research: Design and methods, Sage publications, 2013.
W.W. Powell, K.W. Koput, L. Smith-Doerr, Interorganizational collaboration and the locus of innovation: Networks of learning in biotechnology, Administrative science quarterly, (1996) 116-145.
Mr. Faisal Iddris
School of Business, Engineering and Science Halmstad, University Halmstad, Sweden - Sweden
faisal.iddris@hh.se


CREATE AUTHOR ACCOUNT
 
LAUNCH YOUR SPECIAL ISSUE
View all special issues >>
 
PUBLICATION VIDEOS