An Antecedent-Outcome Model Of Responsible Innovation: A Resource-Based Perspective

ABSTRACT Firms are not built in an isolated world, nor can they survive without societal acceptance. Firms are responsible for their actions and innovations, even if those innovations are meant to be "social innovations." Increased awareness of economic and non-economic stakeholders ha...

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Main Author: Rasheed, Memon Khalid
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2023
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description ABSTRACT Firms are not built in an isolated world, nor can they survive without societal acceptance. Firms are responsible for their actions and innovations, even if those innovations are meant to be "social innovations." Increased awareness of economic and non-economic stakeholders has forced firms to seek social and ethical acceptability to be considered socially and cognitively desirable. It’s no longer about gaining profits only. Firms now need to address the rising concerns regarding upcoming technological innovations, especially artificially intelligent machines. Such technological innovations have serious impacts on human autonomy, fairness, justice, and agency. Collective and responsible stewardship based on some values and principles, through public engagement and informed discourse, may resolve such issues. The research proposes "responsible innovation" (RI) as the solution to all these problems. RI is a novel approach for managing technological innovations that makes the firm ethically, morally, and socially responsible, environmentally friendly, and humanitarian in addition to being business-oriented. Building on the resourcebased view, this study proposes and empirically tests RI as a distinctive competency of the firm developed as a result of its resources (tangible and intangible) and capabilities, leading towards sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) through the contingency effect of absorptive capacity, whereas higher sustainability performance (financial, social, and environmental) became the end result of the SCA gained.
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spelling usm-601352024-03-12T03:35:11Z http://eprints.usm.my/60135/ An Antecedent-Outcome Model Of Responsible Innovation: A Resource-Based Perspective Rasheed, Memon Khalid HF1-6182 Commerce ABSTRACT Firms are not built in an isolated world, nor can they survive without societal acceptance. Firms are responsible for their actions and innovations, even if those innovations are meant to be "social innovations." Increased awareness of economic and non-economic stakeholders has forced firms to seek social and ethical acceptability to be considered socially and cognitively desirable. It’s no longer about gaining profits only. Firms now need to address the rising concerns regarding upcoming technological innovations, especially artificially intelligent machines. Such technological innovations have serious impacts on human autonomy, fairness, justice, and agency. Collective and responsible stewardship based on some values and principles, through public engagement and informed discourse, may resolve such issues. The research proposes "responsible innovation" (RI) as the solution to all these problems. RI is a novel approach for managing technological innovations that makes the firm ethically, morally, and socially responsible, environmentally friendly, and humanitarian in addition to being business-oriented. Building on the resourcebased view, this study proposes and empirically tests RI as a distinctive competency of the firm developed as a result of its resources (tangible and intangible) and capabilities, leading towards sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) through the contingency effect of absorptive capacity, whereas higher sustainability performance (financial, social, and environmental) became the end result of the SCA gained. 2023-07 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/60135/1/MEMON%20KHALID%20RASHEED%20-%20TESIS%20cut.pdf Rasheed, Memon Khalid (2023) An Antecedent-Outcome Model Of Responsible Innovation: A Resource-Based Perspective. PhD thesis, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
spellingShingle HF1-6182 Commerce
Rasheed, Memon Khalid
An Antecedent-Outcome Model Of Responsible Innovation: A Resource-Based Perspective
title An Antecedent-Outcome Model Of Responsible Innovation: A Resource-Based Perspective
title_full An Antecedent-Outcome Model Of Responsible Innovation: A Resource-Based Perspective
title_fullStr An Antecedent-Outcome Model Of Responsible Innovation: A Resource-Based Perspective
title_full_unstemmed An Antecedent-Outcome Model Of Responsible Innovation: A Resource-Based Perspective
title_short An Antecedent-Outcome Model Of Responsible Innovation: A Resource-Based Perspective
title_sort antecedent-outcome model of responsible innovation: a resource-based perspective
topic HF1-6182 Commerce
url http://eprints.usm.my/60135/
http://eprints.usm.my/60135/1/MEMON%20KHALID%20RASHEED%20-%20TESIS%20cut.pdf