This paper examines the impact of net-enablement capability on the innovation in business model for online selling utilizing the Net-enabled Business Innovation Cycle (NEBIC) theoretical framework. Based on a sample of 296 online sellers across different Canadian sectors, the paper empirically tests for the invariant in the relationship between net-enablement capability and the innovation in on...

Prior research on digital ecosystems focuses on the focal firm (e.g., a platform owner) and its ecosystem governance. However, there is a dearth of literature examining the non-focal actor, that is, an ecosystem participant who is at the periphery of a digital ecosystem. This paper proposes a theoretical perspective of the non-focal firm’s participation across digital ecosystems for cultivating...

In today’s networked service economy, it becomes essential for service firms to continuously innovate their service offering to remain competitive in constantly changing market conditions. Many successful firms collaborate with external partners and utilize contemporary information technology (IT) support to integrate dispersed service innovation capacity and knowledge. In this paper, we develo...

The objective of this research is to identify the factors that are the drivers of innovation and to propose a means of measuring firm-specific innovation within a nation. Innovation leads to competitive advantages, as well as maximizing profits for a firm, so it is imperative that the firms have tools that measure how innovative they are compared to other firms within the same industry. The eme...

This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify nancing constraints for innovation based on the concept of an ideal test as suggested by Hall (2008). Firms were o ered a hypothetical payment and were asked to choose between alternatives of use. If they selected additional innovation projects, they must have had some unexploited investment opportunities that were not pro table using m...