Journal of Engineering and Technology Management

The combination of technological innovation and technological application has injected vitality into China's development. But few scholars combine the two stages closely and discuss them in depth. Therefore, this paper closely combines ...

The role of industrial policy on open strategy (OS) is promising but yet underexplored. To address the issue, we conducted a longitudinal case study of China’s high-speed rail industry based on the combination of industrial policy and ...

Robustness of production systems is a popular research topic that comes in many facets. However, apart from a few case studies, not much is known about what robustness actually means in practice. Therefore, this study analyzes how ...

Open innovation has received growing interest in recent years, both in academia and industry. Currently, assessing the degree of openness of a company’s innovation process can be highly challenging due to many qualitative and ...

Companies need to collaborate with partners to co-create digital solutions as part of Industry 4.0 implementation. The objective of this study is to investigate how collaborative partnerships contribute to the digital transformation of ...

Big data analytics (BDA) is empowering organisations and reshaping marketplaces. Yet, there is little knowledge on the need for business-to-business organisations to adopt BDA. Hence, this study conducts a six-step systematic ...

Leveraging the Behavioral Reasoning Theory, in this paper we study the consumer’s perception of the new subscription-based business models designed to give users access to a catalogue of smartphone apps. Specifically, we employ a PLS-...

This paper studies the adoption of e-business by manufacturing firms. We augment the Technology–Organization–Environment (TOE) framework to consider two organizational features, namely, production outsourcing and technological ...