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    Appraising the transformation and future of digital multisided platforms- A bibliometric analysis and systematic literature review
    (IEEE, 2023-10-12) Qureshi, Farrukh Naseem; Pundziene, Asta; Adams, Richard
    This article draws on the digital multisided platform (DMSP) literature from 1990 to 2022 to systematically review and synthesize its themes and contexts. We analyzed 344 articles from Web of Science and Scopus databases using a two-step approach: 1) bibliometric analysis to identify principle research themes in the DMSP literature; and 2) content analysis to develop these themes further. This article contributes to highlighting the DMSP role in Industry 4.0 and Service 4.0, which is an exclusive finding that has not been discussed by any other SLR paper before, along with highlighting competition and collaborative innovation, antitrust, platform typologies, and data privacy as a future research direction, also, this article analyzes the challenges and makes recommendations. In this way, the review advances the current understanding of the growing field of DMSP. Further, the article offers practical insights to guide policymakers, strategists, and managers about the prominent implications. The article does not only review the literature but offers a consolidated account of critical analysis, reviewing the evolution of DMSP. The bibliometric analysis depicts current research trends presenting us with four clusters: 1) innovation and entrepreneurship, 2) sharing economy, 3) business model, and 4) network effects in DMSP literature. We have identified research gaps and presented future research questions for scholars to investigate along with managerial implications of DMSP owners and stakeholders.
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    How COVID-19 impacted the tacit knowledge and social interaction of global NPD project teams
    (Taylor & Francis, 2022-02-18) Cecchi, Michele Angelo; Grant, Stuart; Seiler, Matthias; Turner, Neil; Adams, Richard; Goffin, Keith
    Multinational, technology-intensive companies routinely use globally distributed R&D teams, but COVID-19 represented an additional challenge. Lockdowns and home-office working severely limit human interaction and can impact the communication, social interaction, and knowledge sharing critical to successful R&D. Our study investigated how COVID-19 affected R&D processes at three global companies, using a project complexity perspective. Although R&D managers responsible for global projects are accustomed to the challenges of managing communications, the fact that teams were forced into home-office working made new product development more difficult in several ways. Ensuring that technical details are understood by all members of dispersed teams is crucial. Of particular note, and central to our findings, is the emphasis that R&D managers placed on maintaining a high level of social interaction in their teams, and special efforts were needed to keep interactions at a sufficient level to foster the generation and transfer of tacit knowledge. The findings have strong implications for the way that R&D project management is likely to be conducted in a post-COVID-19 world, and we demonstrate how the complexity framework we used can benefit managers in navigating this and other challenges.
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    A review of the literature addressing the role of knowledge and expertise at key stages of business growth and development. Final Report
    (Dti - Department of Trade and Industry., 2005-08) Bessant, John; Phelps, Bob; Adams, Richard
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    Social media representations of innovation by non-users: everyday problem solving
    (ISPIM, 2021) Adams, Richard; Quinton, Sarah; Pera, Rebecca
    This exploratory study extends the conceptual space of open innovation. We build on previous work recognising opportunities to contribute to a firm's innovation processes, particularly ideation, from the external environment. Initially, scholarship focused on users’ intimate knowledge of a firm’s products and services such as suppliers and lead users. More recently, affordances of digital technologies have broadened the scope of contributors to include, for example, crowdsourcing. We go a step further and consider the often-overlooked group ‘non-users’. Specifically, employing a novel two-stage approach incorporating network visualization based on 7607 Instagram #innovation posts supplemented by qualitative analysis, we explore the contribution non-users might make to firms’ innovation activities. Findings suggest that nonusers conceptualise innovation as problem solving but represent it through ludic and utopic narratives. The value of non-users in the innovation process is not in addressing specific technical problems but in offering a new lens through which to appreciate the phenomenon of innovation itself.
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    Sustainability-oriented innovation: a systematic review
    (Wiley, 2015-05-15) Adams, Richard; Jeanrenaud, Sally; Bessant, John; Denyer, David; Overy, Patrick
    This paper is intended as a contribution to the ongoing conceptual development of sustainability-oriented innovation (SOI) and provides initial guidance on becoming and being sustainable. The authors organize and integrate the diverse body of empirical literature relating to SOI and, in doing so, develop a synthesized conceptual framework onto which SOI practices and processes can be mapped. Sustainability-oriented innovation involves making intentional changes to an organization's philosophy and values, as well as to its products, processes or practices to serve the specific purpose of creating and realizing social and environmental value in addition to economic returns. A critical reading of previous literature relating to environmental management and sustainability reveals how little attention has been paid to SOI, and what exists is only partial. In a review of 100 scholarly articles and 27 grey sources drawn from the period of the three Earth Summits (1992, 2002 and 2012), the authors address four specific deficiencies that have given rise to these limitations: the meaning of SOI; how it has been conceptualized; its treatment as a dichotomous phenomenon; and a general failure to reflect more contemporary practices. The authors adopt a framework synthesis approach involving first constructing an initial architecture of the landscape grounded in previous studies, which is subsequently iteratively tested, shaped, refined and reinforced into a model of SOI with data drawn from included studies: so advancing theoretical development in the field of SOI.
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    University culture and sustainability: designing and implementing an enabling framework
    (Elsevier, 2017-10-04) Adams, Richard; Martin, Stephen; Boom, Katy
    Universities across the globe are giving increasing priority to the challenges of sustainability, encouraged by a variety of drivers including international and national policy, student and societal pressures. Many extant initiatives focus on a relatively narrow set of activities including: Technological solutions; Integrating sustainability across the curriculum; Integrating sustainability as an operational, strategic and outreach principle. These have met with mixed success, and have overlooked the importance of cultural change in embedding sustainability. Drawing and building upon previous studies in the cultural change and sustainability literature, the purpose of this article is to propose a conceptual framework for designing interventions and measuring and monitoring progress in building and embedding a university sustainability culture. Initial staff and student survey data from a UK university has been applied to the framework and their interpretation and implications are explored.