The Strategic Management of Innovation: A Systematic Review and Paths for Future Research

By Marcus M. Keupp, Maximilian Palmié, Oliver Gassmann. International Journal of Management Reviews, 2011

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Strategic management scholars have long emphasized the importance of innovation for a firm's competitive advantage and performance. However, the current state of knowledge about the strategic management of innovation is characterized by conflicting theoretical predictions, persisting knowledge gaps and theoretical inconsistencies. Adopting a ‘systematic’ approach to reviewing the literature, this paper combines different quantitative methods – co‐word analysis, cluster analysis and frequency analysis – to review 342 articles on the strategic management of innovation published in seven journals from 1992 to 2010. On the basis of these analyses, suggestions are developed for future research which could help to promote future theory development and provide relevant material for policy decisions that managers and executives have to make when they manage innovation.

Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management

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A bibliometric review of the innovation adoption literature (2018, background): “emphasized in previous reviews [6, 7], innovation research in the past decades has failed to”
Management innovation and firm performance: An integration of research findings (2015, background): “…due to globalization firms have geographically expanded and their structures, processes and systems have become increasingly complex, the state of research on MI is still in an early stage (Crossan and Apaydin, 2010; Damanpour and Aravind, 2012; Enavgelista and Vezzani, 2010; Keupp et al., 2012).”
Where you search determines what you find: the effects of bibliographic databases on systematic reviews (2021, unknown): “For example, searches performed based on abstract, topic/title, author, all fields and results can be limited to and refined by double-blind reviewed journal articles, books and book chapters, and the year of publication (the year chosen on the basis of theoretical, or sometimes pragmatic, reasons) ”
Pathways of SME internationalization: a bibliometric and systematic review (2019, background): “…moved forward from the standard systematic literature review process in the search for more objectivity on article selection and categorization, resulting in the combination of bibliometric analysis of keywords and qualitative analysis of content (e.g., (Keupp et al. 2012; Saggese et al. 2016)).”
Process innovation in small- and medium-sized enterprises: The critical roles of external knowledge sourcing and absorptive capacity (2020, background): “For example, we have limited understanding about the antecedents of process-related innovation activities (Keupp et al., 2012).”