Corporate governance of innovation in Singapore Chinese family business
Corporate governance of innovation (CGOI) can be defined as a systematic approach to align goals, allocate resources, and assign decision-making authority for innovation, across the organization and with external parties. Despite the large number of research publications on innovation management mat...
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sg-smu-ink.lkcsb_research-84032024-01-18T02:30:03Z Corporate governance of innovation in Singapore Chinese family business ONG, Geok Chwee MENKHOFF, Thomas LOH, Lawrence Loh, Patrick H M Corporate governance of innovation (CGOI) can be defined as a systematic approach to align goals, allocate resources, and assign decision-making authority for innovation, across the organization and with external parties. Despite the large number of research publications on innovation management matters, the mechanisms that effectively govern innovation at firm level are still unclear. Given the socioeconomic importance of family firms in Asia and beyond (where the founder or the founder’s relatives are owners and/or perform key leadership roles), we argue that there is an urgent need to examine those family factors that influence the effectiveness of corporate governance of innovation in Asian enterprise. Against this background, this paper contributes to the innovation literature by (i) developing a model of corporate innovation governance for Singapore Chinese family firms (CGOI) featuring four building blocks: innovation leadership, innovation strategy, innovation capabilities, and innovation outcome; (ii) defining the roles and responsibilities of the board of directors in these family businesses with regard to governing innovation; and (iii) creating a checklist to support both board members and CEOs of family firms to better govern and manage organizational innovation efforts at corporate levels. Methodologically, we adopted a grounded theory-driven case study approach to explore the dynamics of corporate governance of innovation in four Singapore Chinese family firms based on the following criteria: (i) ownership majority by members belonging to the founder’s family; (ii) involvement of the owner or at least one of the owner’s family members as a key management executive in the day-to-day business operations; and (iii) recognition of the family firm as an innovative business organisation (e.g., as evidenced by industry awards). We also conducted 10 interviews with experts in the areas of innovation and governance to shed light on the roles that boards should play when it comes to governing innovation and to unpack what makes proactive boards with a superior innovation performance tick. 2022-11-10T08:00:00Z text https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/7404 info:doi/10.1007/978-3-030-67930-9_41-1 Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Asian Studies Strategic Management Policy Technology and Innovation |
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Corporate governance of innovation (CGOI) can be defined as a systematic approach to align goals, allocate resources, and assign decision-making authority for innovation, across the organization and with external parties. Despite the large number of research publications on innovation management matters, the mechanisms that effectively govern innovation at firm level are still unclear. Given the socioeconomic importance of family firms in Asia and beyond (where the founder or the founder’s relatives are owners and/or perform key leadership roles), we argue that there is an urgent need to examine those family factors that influence the effectiveness of corporate governance of innovation in Asian enterprise. Against this background, this paper contributes to the innovation literature by (i) developing a model of corporate innovation governance for Singapore Chinese family firms (CGOI) featuring four building blocks: innovation leadership, innovation strategy, innovation capabilities, and innovation outcome; (ii) defining the roles and responsibilities of the board of directors in these family businesses with regard to governing innovation; and (iii) creating a checklist to support both board members and CEOs of family firms to better govern and manage organizational innovation efforts at corporate levels. Methodologically, we adopted a grounded theory-driven case study approach to explore the dynamics of corporate governance of innovation in four Singapore Chinese family firms based on the following criteria: (i) ownership majority by members belonging to the founder’s family; (ii) involvement of the owner or at least one of the owner’s family members as a key management executive in the day-to-day business operations; and (iii) recognition of the family firm as an innovative business organisation (e.g., as evidenced by industry awards). We also conducted 10 interviews with experts in the areas of innovation and governance to shed light on the roles that boards should play when it comes to governing innovation and to unpack what makes proactive boards with a superior innovation performance tick. |
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