Open Innovation in Value Chain for Sustainability of Firms
The mdpi website posted a guest editorial of the Special Issue on the ‘Open Innovation in Value Chain for Sustainability of Firms’. This editorial piece asks whether it is possible for firms to sustain their performance forever. Then, it reviews the popular literature on the value chain. Afterwards, it develops a research framework for open innovation in the value chain, and proposes five ways of open innovation taking place within it. These include user open innovation, customer open innovation, common profit community, together growth community, and inner open innovation.
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