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Are James March's ‘exploration’ and ‘exploitation’ separable? Revisiting the dichotomy in the context of innovation management (2023)
Journal Article
Zhou, Q., Dekkers, R., & Chia, R. (2023). Are James March's ‘exploration’ and ‘exploitation’ separable? Revisiting the dichotomy in the context of innovation management. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 192, Article 122592. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2023.122592

The conceptual dichotomy between exploration and exploitation has gained much academic attention in innovation management studies ever since March (1991) identified and examined the importance of this distinction and its consequences for organisation... Read More about Are James March's ‘exploration’ and ‘exploitation’ separable? Revisiting the dichotomy in the context of innovation management.

Using an actual design method for the design of research methodologies: Case of the dichotomy exploration and exploitation in context of innovation management (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Dekkers, R., & Zhou, Q. (2023). Using an actual design method for the design of research methodologies: Case of the dichotomy exploration and exploitation in context of innovation management. In C. Huang, R. Dekkers, S. Fung Chiu, D. Popescu, & L. Quezada (Eds.), Intelligent and Transformative Production in Pandemic Times. Lecture Notes in Production Engineering (767-777). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18641-7_71

Whereas scholarly studies often elaborate on the design of the method for empirical data collection and analysis, surprisingly, the actual use of design principles taken from the domain of design and engineering of products has not come into the pict... Read More about Using an actual design method for the design of research methodologies: Case of the dichotomy exploration and exploitation in context of innovation management.

Theory of agency in supply chain finance: Taking a hermeneutic approach (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Gelsomino, L. M., Dekkers, R., de Boer, R., de Goeij, C., & Zhou, Q. (2023). Theory of agency in supply chain finance: Taking a hermeneutic approach. In C. Huang, R. Dekkers, S. Fung Chiu, D. Popescu, & L. Quezada (Eds.), Intelligent and Transformative Production in Pandemic Times: Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Production Research (317-324). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18641-7_30

This article investigates theory of agency as a theoretical underpinning in the field of supply chain finance. Specifically, through a hermeneutic approach, the authors examine the development of the theory, its postulations and assumptions, and its... Read More about Theory of agency in supply chain finance: Taking a hermeneutic approach.

Game analysis on general purpose technology cooperative R&D with fairness concern from the technology chain perspective (2023)
Journal Article
Zheng, Y., Liu, S., Zhao, Y., Han, C., Zhou, Q., Wang, L., …Alsharif, H. (2023). Game analysis on general purpose technology cooperative R&D with fairness concern from the technology chain perspective. Journal of Innovation & Knowledge, 8(1), Article S2444569X23000082. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jik.2023.100312

General purpose technologies (GPTs) are regarded as a major source of productivity advancement and economic growth. As a kind of platform technology, GPTs have strong knowledge spillovers, which causes a single subject to lack R&D motivation and adop... Read More about Game analysis on general purpose technology cooperative R&D with fairness concern from the technology chain perspective.

Evaluating R&D efficiency of China’s listed lithium battery enterprises (2022)
Journal Article
Bai, S., Bi, X., Han, C., Zhou, Q., Shang, W., Yang, M., …He, H. (2022). Evaluating R&D efficiency of China’s listed lithium battery enterprises. Frontiers of Engineering Management, 9(3), 473-485. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42524-022-0213-5

Promoting the growth of the lithium battery sector has been a critical aspect of China’s energy policy in terms of achieving carbon neutrality. However, despite significant support on research and development (R&D) investments that have resulted in i... Read More about Evaluating R&D efficiency of China’s listed lithium battery enterprises.

Evaluating theoretical conceptualisations for supply chain and finance integration: A Scottish focus group (2019)
Journal Article
Dekkers, R., de Boer, R., Gelsomino, L. M., de Goeij, C., Steeman, M., Zhou, Q., …Souter, V. (2020). Evaluating theoretical conceptualisations for supply chain and finance integration: A Scottish focus group. International Journal of Production Economics, 220, Article 107451. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2019.07.024

With supply chain finance gaining more prominence in practice and drawing increasing attention from researchers, the question arises how this emerging discipline can build on existing theoretical conceptualisations. However, few studies have incorpor... Read More about Evaluating theoretical conceptualisations for supply chain and finance integration: A Scottish focus group.

How ambidextrous are they actually? An empirical test of exploration and exploitation as innovation capabilities using data envelopment analysis (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Zhou, Q., Dekkers, R., & Chia, R. (2018, June). How ambidextrous are they actually? An empirical test of exploration and exploitation as innovation capabilities using data envelopment analysis. Paper presented at 25th Innovation and Product Development Management Conference, 2018, Porto, Portugal

The study of ambidexterity has been attracting research attention since March’s (1991) seminal work on exploration and exploitation. The possible reason behind this is that successful organisations should be able to handle both radical and incrementa... Read More about How ambidextrous are they actually? An empirical test of exploration and exploitation as innovation capabilities using data envelopment analysis.

QPQ: A simulation game for operations management students (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Koukou, M., Dekkers, R., Aldossary, M., & Zhou, Q. (2017, July). QPQ: A simulation game for operations management students. Paper presented at 24th International Conference on Production Research, 2017, Poznan, Poland

Interactive learning where students play an active role is seen as key to gaining and retaining knowledge, differently to traditional lecture-based teaching where they are just passive recipients of knowledge. This study presents the QPQ Simulation G... Read More about QPQ: A simulation game for operations management students.