پديدآورندگان :
Ramirez-Portilla Andres andres.ramirez-portilla@indek.kth.se KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden , Manzini Raffaella Università Carlo Cattaneo, Castellanza, Italy , Lazzarotti Valentina Università Carlo Cattaneo, Castellanza, Italy , Cagno Enrico Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
كليدواژه :
openess degree , partner variety , innovation phase variety , content variety , open innovation survey , manufacturing firms
چكيده فارسي :
Explaining the concept of Open Innovation (OI) could be less challenging from a theoretical than from a practicalperspective. In this sense, while researchers have spent the last decade trying to develop and establish the ideas,models, and theories related to OI, more simple questions related to its practical adoption by firms have been oftendisregarded. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to contribute filling this gap by investigating the adoption ofdifferent types of inbound OI models influence on firm performance under a contingency perspective. With the datacollected by an Open Innovation Survey in manufacturing firms, we try to answer the question of how do differentconfigurations of OI models in terms of partner, content, and innovation phase variety influence firm performancewhen moderated by internal context characteristics. The sample analysed includes the responses of 247 manufacturingfirms from Italy and Sweden with different profiles of size, age, strategic orientation, and their drivers ofcollaboration. Using a mix of approaches to analyse the data we found first, three configurations of OI models,namely: super open innovators, selective collaborators, and conservative collaborators. Contrary to many studiesshowing that adopting OI does not has a relation with economic performance, we found that in some cases i.e.selective collaborators, firms can adopt OI to some extent and also have a high turnover. Second, we found thatmedium-sized firms differ from their smaller and larger counterparts in the extent to which they collaborate withpartners such as universities, innovation intermediaries and firms from other industries. This study contributesintroducing a perspective that integrates partner, content, and innovation phase variety, to understand different ways inwhich OI models could be adopted by firms. Likewise, the aim of this paper it to provide managerial implicationsshowing that the idea of openness is not a dichotomy of adopting everything-nothing, but as a choice of diverse opendegrees consistent with the firm´s context characteristics.
