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 …

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 …

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 …

Purpose The paper aims to understand how individuals differ in individual absorptive
capacity–their ability to recognize, assimilate, transform and exploit external knowledge …

Open innovation is a paradigm that believes that firms should use both internal and external
ideas. These ideas can advance technology and lead to competitive advantage, thereby …

Inter-organizational knowledge acquisition has become an increasingly important strategy
for firms to improve their levels of innovation. Building upon the knowledge-based view …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore organizational factors that act as
antecedents of open innovation search. The authors aim to empirically examine whether the …

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 …

One novel implication of the open innovation paradigm is that inflows and outflows of
knowledge are complementary. We argue that engaging simultaneously in buying and …

There is no doubt that the primary reason that firms encourage knowledge sharing is to drive
innovation. As nutrients for innovation, what role do the different elements of intellectual …