Outputs (9)

The SME R&D intensity and product innovation relationship: the mediating role of quality management in the context of a developing country (2024)
Journal Article
Omari, D., Scott, S. A., Tóth, Z., & Tsinopoulos, C. (2025). The SME R&D intensity and product innovation relationship: the mediating role of quality management in the context of a developing country. R&D Management, 55(3), 837-854. https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12721

SMEs engage in product innovation despite their inherent resource constraints, lack of financial slack, and the under‐development of competitively viable strategic configurations around the globe. While progress has been made in identifying the antec... Read More about The SME R&D intensity and product innovation relationship: the mediating role of quality management in the context of a developing country.

The Relationship between Quality Management and Product Innovation: A Systematic Review (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Omari, D., Scott, S., & Tsinopoulos, C. (2022, July). The Relationship between Quality Management and Product Innovation: A Systematic Review. Presented at 29th Innovation and Product Development Management Conference, Hamburg, Germany

The influence of quality management practices have on product innovation performance has attracted considerable scholarly attention from researchers. Yet, scholars lack consensus on how and in what ways this relationship manifests, with empirical exa... Read More about The Relationship between Quality Management and Product Innovation: A Systematic Review.

Operational Research in the time of COVID-19: the ‘science for better’ or worse in the absence of hard data (2021)
Journal Article
Nikolopoulos, K., Tsinopoulos, C., & Vasilakis, C. (2023). Operational Research in the time of COVID-19: the ‘science for better’ or worse in the absence of hard data. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 74(2), 448-449. https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2021.1930208

How can policymakers and planners make informed decisions during a pandemic? What kind of (big) data are needed, and who and when is supposed to provide these? With the Operational Research community unable to get hold of reliable hard data – especia... Read More about Operational Research in the time of COVID-19: the ‘science for better’ or worse in the absence of hard data.

Unpacking the impact of innovation ambidexterity on export performance: Microfoundations and infrastructure investment (2020)
Journal Article
Yan, J., Tsinopoulos, C., & Xiong, Y. (2021). Unpacking the impact of innovation ambidexterity on export performance: Microfoundations and infrastructure investment. International Business Review, 30(1), Article 101766. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2020.101766

When designing and managing routines for their innovation activities firms often face a challenge. Either they can concentrate their efforts on one approach i.e. exploring new ideas or exploiting its existing capabilities, or they can try to do both,... Read More about Unpacking the impact of innovation ambidexterity on export performance: Microfoundations and infrastructure investment.

Forecasting and planning during a pandemic: COVID-19 growth rates, supply chain disruptions, and governmental decisions (2020)
Journal Article
Nikolopoulos, K., Punia, S., Schäfers, A., Tsinopoulos, C., & Vasilakis, C. (2020). Forecasting and planning during a pandemic: COVID-19 growth rates, supply chain disruptions, and governmental decisions. European Journal of Operational Research, 290(1), 99-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2020.08.001

Policymakers during 1COVID-19 operate in uncharted 2territory and must make tough decisions. Operational Research - the ubiquitous ‘science of better’ - plays a vital role in supporting this decision-making process. To that end, using data from the U... Read More about Forecasting and planning during a pandemic: COVID-19 growth rates, supply chain disruptions, and governmental decisions.

Abandoning Innovation Activities and Performance: The moderating role of openness (2019)
Journal Article
Tsinopoulos, C., Yan, J., & Sousa, C. M. (2019). Abandoning Innovation Activities and Performance: The moderating role of openness. Research Policy, 48(6), 1399-1411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2019.02.005

Firms are encouraged to continually initiate innovation activities as part of their new product development processes and to be open to the use of external knowledge sources. Yet, many are abandoned. Openness to external knowledge sources and the exp... Read More about Abandoning Innovation Activities and Performance: The moderating role of openness.

Process Innovation: Open innovation and the moderating role of the motivation to achieve legitimacy (2017)
Journal Article
Tsinopoulos, C., Sousa, C., & Yan, J. (2018). Process Innovation: Open innovation and the moderating role of the motivation to achieve legitimacy. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 35(1), 27-48. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpim.12374

Global competition has increased the pressure for firms to develop new and efficient processes in ways that are perceived to be legitimate. At the same time, there has been a realization that engaging with open innovation can improve competitiveness.... Read More about Process Innovation: Open innovation and the moderating role of the motivation to achieve legitimacy.

Export experience counts: Exploring its effect on product design change (2014)
Journal Article
Tsinopoulos, C., Lages, L., & Sousa, C. (2014). Export experience counts: Exploring its effect on product design change. R&D Management, 44(5), 450-465. https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12078

In this paper we explore how managers’ export experience can affect the change in product design following changes in perceived past performance. Using data from 519 Portuguese exporters we find that performance improvement will encourage safe decisi... Read More about Export experience counts: Exploring its effect on product design change.

Adoption of virtual reality within construction processes: A factor analysis approach (2006)
Journal Article
Fernandes, K., Raja, V., White, A., & Tsinopoulos, C. (2006). Adoption of virtual reality within construction processes: A factor analysis approach. Technovation, 26(1), 111-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2004.07.013

Globalization has allowed construction companies to become part of the global economy. However, this economic survival is dependent on their ability to attain the levels of technology development, which can make them globally competitive. The UK Cons... Read More about Adoption of virtual reality within construction processes: A factor analysis approach.