Asta Pundziene

5G technologies pose new challenges and provide opportunities, especially for industries like healthcare, where data and mobile remote communication play an important role in organizations’ ability to provide value-based services. Hospitals are therefore in need of innovating their business models to incorporate 5G-enabled opportunities. Our discussion highlights the mediating mechanisms by which dynamic capabilities and business models influence each other, clarifying what determines business-model innovation in an organizational setting. The premise of this research is that hospitals demonstrate emerging business model patterns that reflect a combination of their capabilities and the type of innovation involved. This paper develops a conceptual framework and presents four cases gathered from hospitals to unveil key ingredients of business models required for 5G-enabled healthcare services.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of the dynamic managerial capabilities (DMC) of the spouse (either working or non-working) of a family firm owner on firm innovativeness. This paper assesses the role of three elements of the DMC of owners' spouses (emotion regulation, conflict resolution and networking capabilities) that are bridged by familiness on family firm innovativeness.Design/methodology/approachThis paper presents the results of a multiple case study. Twelve cases were selected: six innovative and six non-innovative family firms in Lithuania. The study design enabled a comparison not only of innovative and non-innovative family firms but also of non-working and working spouses of family firm owners.FindingsThe findings show that family firm owners' spouses contribute to firm innovativeness through their DMC in terms of emotion regulation, conflict resolution and networking capabilities.Research limitations/implicationsThis research focuse...