Managing open innovation from a knowledge flow perspective: the roles of embeddedness and network inertia in collaboration networks

• Published in: European journal of innovation management Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 1011 - 1034
• Main Authors: Shi, Xiaoxiao, Lu, Lu, Zhang, Wei, Zhang, Qingpu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bradford Emerald Publishing Limited 27.05.2021; Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Subjects: Collaboration; Hypotheses; Innovations; Intellectual property; Knowledge; Licenses; R&D; Research & development; Social networks; Strategic management; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Outbound open innovation; Inbound open innovation; Network inertia; Knowledge flow; Network embeddedness

PurposeBuilding on theories of inter-organizational knowledge flows and social network, we explored how two types of collaboration network embeddedness (NE) (i.e. structural embeddedness (SE) and relational embeddedness (RE)) drive firms' inbound and outbound open innovation (OI) practices from...