How Does Open Innovation Lead Competitive Advantage?
The Plos One website noted that the relationship between open innovation and a company’s competitive advantage, and organizational capabilities required remains to be explained. This study was conducted to answer the following questions: Does open innovation create organization’s competitive advantage? What types of capabilities are needed in the process of open innovation reaching competitive advantage? What kind of relationship do they have? The results confirmed the statistical significance of the path linking open innovation to competitive advantage through product innovation. The results also suggest that the linkages between the needed capabilities of organization must be considered for performing open innovation to secure competitive advantage.
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