Business Process Management Journal: Volume 23 Issue 6

Implementing open innovation: technological, organizational and managerial tools

Davide Aloini, Valentina Lazzarotti, Raffaella Manzini, Luisa Pellegrini

Developing absorptive capacity for recombinant innovation

John Bessant, Anna Trifilova

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, to understand recombinant innovation (RI) as a potentially significant part of an open innovation (OI) strategy and second, to suggest…

Everything community? Destructive processes in communities of crowdsourcing competitions

Rita Faullant, Guido Dolfus

Virtual crowdsourcing initiatives, and in particular crowdsourcing competitions, have become a promising means of harnessing users’ creativity to help corporate innovation. To…

Open innovation: on the influence of internal and external collaboration on degree of newness

Astrid Heidemann Lassen, Bjørge Timenes Laugen

The purpose of this paper is to test the effect of internal and external collaboration on the degree of newness (incremental/radical) in innovation projects. This adds to the…

Measuring the impact of relational capital on customer performance in the SME B2B sector: The moderating role of absorptive capacity

Lara Agostini, Anna Nosella, Benedetta Soranzo

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence that different components of relational capital (marketing capability, open innovation with business and scientific…

Open innovation in specialized SMEs: the case of supercars

Andres Ramirez-Portilla, Enrico Cagno, Terrence E. Brown

The purpose of this paper is to explore the influence that adopting open innovation (OI) has on the innovativeness and performance of specialized small and medium-sized…

Relevant factors of innovation contests for SMEs

Maria Isabel Rodriguez Ferradas, José A. Alfaro Tanco, Francesco Sandulli

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relevant factors that influence the implementation of innovation contests, an open innovation (OI) practice that has been extensively…

Open innovation scorecard: a managerial tool

Emilia Lamberti, Francesca Michelino, Antonello Cammarano, Mauro Caputo

The purpose of this paper is to devise a scorecard providing a suite of indicators that give innovation managers a value-oriented, fast but holistic view of open innovation (OI…

The role of employee autonomy for open innovation performance

Ana Burcharth, Mette Præst Knudsen, Helle Alsted Søndergaard

The purpose of this paper is to examine how organisational activities that formally provide employees with work autonomy explain the performance of open innovation (OI).

Achieving innovation through supplier collaboration: the role of the purchasing interface

Andrea Stefano Patrucco, Davide Luzzini, Stefano Ronchi

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the contribution of suppliers and the purchasing department in affecting a firm’s ability to innovate.

Opening up innovation processes through contests in the food sector

Silvia Massa, Stefania Testa

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how an adequate mix of technological, organisational and managerial tools might support Open Innovation (OI) processes achieved by…

Practising open innovation: a framework of reference

Cinzia Battistella, Alberto Felice De Toni, Elena Pessot

This work provides new insights into possible managerial choices and development directions for practising open innovation (OI) in companies. The purpose of this paper is to…

Open innovation in the public sector: Resources and performance of research-based spin-offs

Karen Venturini, Chiara Verbano

The purpose of this paper is to verify and improve the framework assessing the evolution and importance of the technological, human, social and financial resources of an Indian…

Controlling innovation and innovating control: insights from a knowledge intensive network

Rosanna Spanò, Alessandra Allini, Adele Caldarelli, Annamaria Zampella

The purpose of this paper is to deepen the countervailing relationship between control and innovation in knowledge-intensive complex organizations. It adopts a middle range theory…