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Management Innovation and Technological Innovation: Friends or Foes?

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Understanding of management innovation has been advanced in the last decade, but it is still a relatively under-researched topic, at least in comparison with that of technological innovation. This article introduces this volume on Management Innovation; it reviews critically, the multiple conceptual approaches to the topic, looks at the different research streams related to it, and considers the performance consequences or its occurrence. In the latter respect, the article analyzes the synergistic effects of co-adopting management and technological innovation. It also provides a robust theoretical foundation for addressing co-adoption, using a cross-disciplinary perspective. The article also notes that the literature on joint adoption has three blind spots: (i) the literature is fragmented into different, albeit complementary, frameworks and perspectives; (ii) the literature has mainly focused on technological performance, or other general performance, effects deriving from the introduction of management innovations, giving less attention to specific management innovation effects; and (iii) the literature so far has not looked at the joint adoption of specific pairs of technological and management innovations. Finally, as a general point, the article observes that it is surprising how little empirical research has so far gone into exploring the association between the adoption of management innovation and its performance outcomes.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    It is important to notice that the Spanish CIS questionnaire for 2006 and all the previous ones, included that question as EFFECTS. Nevertheless, since 2008, the Spanish questionnaire was modified and changed the variable in order to capture the idea of objectives (similar to “innovation goals”, related to technological trajectories in the sense of Dosi, 1982) or factors for the decision to innovate. Finally, it is important to notice that, although the CIS is standardized for Europe, each country has some peculiarities. For instance, see Spanish questionnaires here: http://www.ine.es/en/daco/daco42/daco4221/ite_cues_en.htm.

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    We really thank Dr. Fariboz Damanpour from Rutgers University for clarification and theoretical support in the identification of the literature fields related to the topic.

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This paper has been financially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economics (ECO2010-17318) Innoclusters. Furthermore, Authors gratefully acknowledge support from the Universitat Politècnica de València through the project Paid-06-12 (Sp 20120792).

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Peris-Ortiz, M., Hervás-Oliver, JL. (2014). Management Innovation and Technological Innovation: Friends or Foes?. In: Hervás-Oliver, JL., Peris-Ortiz, M. (eds) Management Innovation. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03134-7_1

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