Complementing Open Innovation Practices in Multinational Corporations
The Research Platform Alexandria website posted a research paper which argued that open innovation (OI) so far has mainly been understood as a process involving firm external partners. In this paper, we argue that such a focus limits our understanding of how multinational corporations (MNC) profit from internally applied open innovation practices. We thus build on the current OI literature by investigating and describing open innovation activities, conducted within the firm boundaries. Based on a multiple case study of 17 MNCs, our findings reveal five archetypical internal OI practices that vary in underlying management motives.
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