مجله مدیریت نوآوری
سال دهم شماره 3 (پیاپی 37، پاییز 1400)

The growing need of the society for food, the reduction of food resources and nutritional imbalance, the environmental damage in the food industry, the water shortage crisis and the changing climate, the urgent need to address the major environmental consequences and move towards sustainable development in this sector is essential. The main purpose of this research is to design a model of sustainable innovation for small and medium businesses in the food industry. In this research, by comprehensive review of research literature and interviews with experts and managers in the field of food industry and using thematic analysis method, important factors and variables in sustainability innovation in small and medium businesses were identified and extracted.Then, interpretive structural modeling was used to determine the priorities and relationships between the factors. Finally, the analytic network process was used to determine the weight of each factor. The results indicate that government policy, green social pressure and green culture of society are the most important factors in the formation of sustainable innovation. And government should focus on green strategies formulatin, organizational capabilities reinforcement and acquisition of economic competencies between firms.

Innovation is recognized as a key factor in the competitiveness of countries and firms, but firms face challenges and obstacles in achieving innovation. The purpose of this article is to identify barriers to innovation in family businesses and also to prioritize the factors identified in these types of businesses. The present study was conducted in two stages. In the first stage, the data theory method is used to identify and classify barriers to innovation, and in the second stage, the pairwise comparison method is used to prioritize them.The results of the analysis indicate that the obstacles to innovation fall into 6 categories, including:Financial barriers, marketing barriers, managerial barriers, manpower barriers, knowledge barriers and environmental barriers were categorized. Manpower barriers play the most important role in increasing or decreasing productivity, which were identified as the most important barriers to innovation in the present study. Lack of skilled employees and employee resistance are some of the issues mentioned by entrepreneurs. According to the second phase of the research, which is the prioritization of barriers to innovation, the results show that the factor of manpower barriers has the greatest impact and in the second place, environmental barriers have a significant impact on the way of entrepreneurs in family businesses. Also, marketing, managerial, financial and knowledge barriers were identified as factors affecting innovation, respectively.

Crowdfunding is a new form of micro-fundraising for projects that has been around the world for thousands of years. It can be said that centuries ago, human beings were familiar with this capacity and were able to use micro-capital in different ways in different ways. Collective financing aims to raise the micro-capital that exists in the community to invest in various types of projects. In line with previous studies, this study has identified the cognitive errors of entrepreneurial negotiations with a focus on crowdfunding projects. To validate the results obtained in the past, a semi-structured interview was conducted with 15 co-financing experts who worked in the investment house. The sampling method is purposeful judgmental and qualitative content analysis has been used to achieve the goal. According to previous texts and interviews, the cognitive errors in entrepreneurial negotiations in crowdfunding were identified, which were classified into Two categories: cognitive errors caused by the entrepreneur, investor and project. Entrepreneur and investor mistakes include stereotypes, auras, such projection and error within the group.The Second error is related to the project error, such as the innovation-innovation error, the anchoring error, and the confirmation bias that were identified. Following is the identification of these errors in order to achieve a win-win and error-free entrepreneurial negotiation.

As entrepreneurial teams are one of the main factors of success in startups, providing a comprehensive analyzing to identify the factors of entrepreneurial team composition to know the right composition of teams in startups ecosystem is necessary. The purpose of this study is to provide a comprehensive analyzing of entrepreneurial team composition in start-ups. This research has done with a systematic review and Meta-synthesizes method and excluded 58 articles published in various scientific research between "1990-2019" about entrepreneurial team composition in startups and comparing with the previous model, provide a comprehensive analyzing for entrepreneurial team’s composition. This model includes 4 main factors, 10 concepts and, 34 codes, which main factrors are the heterogeneity of member characteristics, aggregated member characteristics, team structure, and turnover of team members. The results of this study are of significant use for stakeholders and activists of the startups ecosystem in Iran, especially in the field of evaluation of successful teams, as far as venture capitalists can use the analyzing result obtained in this study to understand the important factors affecting the success of start-ups in the world and take these factors into account in evaluating the composition of teams and increase their chance of investment.In addition, innovative teams can use the factors of this research as a basis for forming their teams.

Platform-based businesses promote economic efficiency due to the optimal allocation of resources and the reduction of transaction costs, but they need to regulate why the conflict of interest between them and traditional actors. Although the conflict between economic actors can be understood based on regulation economics, explaining the conflict between political actors requires an appropriate framework. This study aims to narrate the regulatory process of "platform businesses" and explain it based Advocacy Coalition Framework in order to identify the policy implications and solutions used in this process. In this qualitative research, data based on the case study strategy (2014-2018) have been extracted from the regulatory process of "transportation platform businesses" in Iran through preferential interviews and document reviews. The results show that regulating platform businesses has faced four stalemates that different mediators have effectively gotten out of them. Also, the two mediators, "Competition Council" and "Deregulation and Business Licensing Board", as examples of "principle-based regulation" and "rule-based regulation", respectively that can be extended to other cases of new business regulation. The present article emphasizes the regulation occurring in the political market that the media has a high role in explaining issues and institutional innovation in resolving these issues.

Economic complexity is one of the main factors of economic growth and development. Therefore, the study of factors affecting economic complexity is one of the most important fields of study for economists. The approach of economic complexity is based on the concept that the products produced in the economy represent the amount of productive knowledge required in the production of their products, and assuming that countries do not produce products unless they have the knowledge and skills, the accumulation of productive knowledge Calculates the underlying economy of countries. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of globalization and innovation index on complexity. For this purpose, a sample of countries with a high index of globalization during the period 2008-2016 with the approach of the data panel has been used. The results of the study indicate that globalization and innovation have a positive and significant effect on economic complexity. Also, the variables of good governance index, human capital and financial development index have a positive and significant effect and the abundance of natural resources has a negative and insignificant effect in the studied countries.