The Moderating Role of Knowledge Structure in Open Innovation
The Emerald Insight website reported on a study which examined the relationship between open innovation (OI) and innovative performance, and explored the moderating effect of knowledge structure, including component knowledge and architectural knowledge, on this particular relationship. The findings indicate that inbound OI is positively related to innovative performance and that outbound OI has an inverted U-shaped effect on innovative performance. By presenting empirical evidence of the moderating effects of component and architectural knowledge, the analysis of results demonstrates that the strong alignment between knowledge structure and OI results in superior innovative performance.
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