Barriers to innovation and innovation performance: the mediating role of external knowledge search in emerging economies

R Torres de Oliveira, S Gentile-Lüdecke… - Small Business …, 2022 - Springer
Using survey data from companies located in the Wuxi (Taihu) international science park in
China, we aim to analyze to what extent science park residents experience barriers to …

Does open innovation apply to China? Exploring the contingent role of external knowledge sources and internal absorptive capacity in Chinese large firms and SMEs

F Huang, J Rice, N Martin - Journal of Management & Organization, 2015 - cambridge.org
While 'open innovation'is often considered to be an organisational strategy with universal
application, its generalisability and applicability to organisations operating within emerging …

How constraints and knowledge impact open innovation

H Garriga, G Von Krogh… - Strategic Management …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Laursen and S alter (2006) examined the impact of a firm's search strategy for external
knowledge on innovative performance. Based on organizational learning and open …

The influence of scope, depth, and orientation of external technology sources on the innovative performance of Chinese firms

J Chen, Y Chen, W Vanhaverbeke - Technovation, 2011 - Elsevier
It is commonly accepted nowadays that external knowledge sources are important for firms'
innovative performance. However, it is still not clear, what dimensions of firms' external …

Exploring open search strategies and perceived innovation performance from the perspective of inter‐organizational knowledge flows

YH Chiang, KP Hung - R&d Management, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Based on theories of inter‐organizational knowledge flows and organizational learning, we
argue that intensively accessing knowledge from a limited number of external channels, ie …

The “human side” of open innovation: The role of employee diversity in firm-level openness

M Bogers, NJ Foss, J Lyngsie - Research Policy, 2018 - Elsevier
The use of external knowledge for innovation (ie, inbound or outside-in open innovation)
has received substantial attention in the innovation literature. However, the “human side” of …

Abandoning innovation activities and performance: The moderating role of openness

C Tsinopoulos, J Yan, CMP Sousa - Research policy, 2019 - Elsevier
Firms are encouraged to continually initiate innovation activities as part of their new product
development processes and to be open to the use of external knowledge sources. Yet, many …

External knowledge search and firms' incremental innovation capability: The joint moderating effect of technological proximity and network embeddedness

X Shi, Z Zheng, Q Zhang, H Liang - Management Decision, 2020 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to analyze the extent to which the influence of external knowledge
search activities on firms' incremental innovation capability, and the moderating roles of the …

Openness and firm innovation performance: the moderating effect of ambidextrous knowledge search strategy

C Wang, T Chin, JH Lin - Journal of Knowledge Management, 2020 - emerald.com
Purpose Openness to external knowledge has recently gained popularity as a means for
firms to complement and leverage internal knowledge in the pursuit of innovation outcomes …

[HTML][HTML] Barriers to open innovation: Case China

I Savitskaya, P Salmi, M Torkkeli - Journal of technology management …, 2010 - SciELO Chile
The notion of open innovation suggests that firms can boost their innovative performance by
both acquiring knowledge from outside the company and deploying external paths to market …