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Open Innovation in Family Firms
The Emerald Insight website posted a study whose purpose is to shed light on how family firms execute open innovation strategies by managing internal and external knowledge flows (KF) to provide a deeper understanding of family firms’ ability to innovate through traditions and create value across generations. The study derives a model that explains
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A comparative stakeholder approach for developing open innovation activities in SMEs
The Science Direct website posted an study which noted that recent literature on open innovation (OI) highlights the need for studies regarding the factors that influence firms to switch from a closed to an OI strategy. At the same time, stakeholder literature points out the scarcity of knowledge regarding
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The Ups and Downs of Open Innovation Efficiency
The University of Greenwich site posted a new study which noted that Open innovation (OI) has become increasingly popular as an enterprise strategy in both industry and academia, and has been adopted, at least in part, by many companies. Despite this popularity, there is a dearth of evaluation of OI
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Engaging in Open Innovation
The Journal of Geberal Management posted a study which contributes to the literature on open innovation by addressing the scarcity of individual-level literature and insight into the human side of open innovation. Specifically, it examines the relationships between transactional and transformational
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How Do Leaders Embrace Stakeholder Engagement for Sustainability-Oriented Innovation?
A chapter in the book New Leadership in Strategy and Communication demonstrates how open innovation can be applied to sustainability contexts: “In this chapter we specifically address the leadership challenges encountered in accessing the wide variety of knowledge from multiple external stakeholders.
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The Role of Sequential Coherence in Open Innovation:
The International Conference on Business Research posted a study which noted that open innovation does not always increase innovation performance. Extant literature provides inconsistent and inconclusive arguments in respect of the relationship between open innovation practices and innovation performance.
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Employee-Level Open Innovation in Emerging Markets
The Springer site posted a study which examines whether firms in an emergent market can strategically deploy the appropriate managerial resources to help their employees leverage internal and external knowledge sources into innovative output. The study’s theoretical approach highlights the microfoundations
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Horizontal Open Innovation
An study on the Academy of Management site noted that a key contribution of the open innovation literature is the notion that firms need to access outside sources of ideas and complementary assets. A literature has blossomed that details a variety of open innovation modes. But emergent phenomena, including
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Leveraging Open Innovation to Improve Society
The Wiley On-line Library posted a study from the journal R&D Management which noted that it has become clear that Open Innovation directly improves organizations’ economic performance and resilience, but researchers, practitioners, and policy makers became also convinced that OI might be the
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Constituents of Innovation Ecosystems
The Emerald Insight site posted a summary of a study which compared the different approaches to innovation ecosystems in the literature, the connection with open innovation, the value creating and value capturing processes in innovation ecosystems, and the need to orchestrate them properly. The paper
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