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 and dynamics of open innovation and, thus, presents a complementary viewpoint to the macro-organizational approach that is more prevalent in the open innovation literature. The study builds on open innovation research at the firm level and considers the individual employee as the basic unit of analysis for open innovation. The results of the study are important for managers in emerging market firms, as they highlight that open innovation is more effective in an emerging market than in developed markets, which are the dominant focus of past research.

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