Digital technologies are considered as factors that accelerate the pace of innovation and
increase the firm's innovation performance. However, few studies have investigated whether …

Digital information sharing within supply chains is seen as a central prerequisite to
implement Industry 4.0, relating to one of its core characteristics, horizontal and vertical …

The open innovation (OI) paradigm describes how firms innovate by interacting with other
organizations. Several authors found that specific OI strategies have a positive effect on …

Purpose Companies' ability to build sustainable supply chains and achieve strategic
sustainability objectives largely depends on their supply network characteristics and the …

Studies on knowledge management have generated an awareness that it is fundamentally
important for small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to be able to exploit sources of …

We investigate the collaboration between an Iranian and a French company in a joint
venture aimed at developing radical innovation in the construction sector. We identify the …

Purpose In the wake of the growing popularity of the open innovation approach, leveraging
suppliers as external sources of innovation has attracted increasing interest from scholars …

Abstract The Power and Energy (P&E) sector needs to respond to several challenges
fostering investments in research and development. According to the Open Innovation (OI) …

The present study aims at reviewing and analyzing the evolution stages of buyer–supplier
relationships and exploring the future of their relationships. Existing research on the stages …

Absorptive capacity (AC) has the potential to explain performance and competitive
advantage. The cumulativeness feature of AC has been broadly covered in theory but …