scholarly journals The interplay of open innovation and strategic innovation: Unpacking the role of organizational learning ability and absorptive capacity

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 184797902110697
Author(s):  
Saima Mirza ◽  
Asif Mahmood ◽  
Hassan Waqar
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Mutual Effect ◽  
Learning Ability ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Learning Abilities ◽  
Strategic Innovation ◽  
Explorative Learning ◽  
The Relationship

We explore the open innovation research model in order to remove barriers in service organizations, where lack of knowledge is the main barrier to innovation. The purpose of this paper is to propose a research model exploring the relationship between open innovation, organizational learning ability, absorptive capacity, and strategic innovation. In this study, we collected data from 330 pharmaceutical companies in Lahore and Karachi (Pakistan). The Structural equation model analysis was used through analysis of moment structures and statistical package for the social sciences to check the relationship between the variables. The results reveal that hypotheses related to innovation have been accepted. The findings of this study are evidence that various types of open innovation have different effects on strategic innovation. The inbound and outbound open innovation directly affects strategic innovation; the mutual effect of exploitative learning ability and explorative learning ability between open innovation and strategic innovation have indirect effects. Similarly, the empirical findings of absorptive capacity also significantly impact open innovation and organizational learning ability. This study contributes to the theory by introducing exploitative and explorative learning abilities as mediators between open innovation and strategic innovation. Moreover, it analyzes how absorptive capacity may enhance learning abilities through the open innovation phenomenon. Practically, this study would help the managers understand and improve organizational productivity and gain competitive advantage by creating, sharing, and utilizing knowledge through internal and external avenues.

scholarly journals The Mediating Role of Absorptive Capacity in the Relationship between Research Community Participation and Open Innovation

2021 ◽  
Vol 124 ◽  
pp. 08010
Author(s):  
Rabiah Eladwiah Abdul Rahim ◽  
Nor’ashikin Ali ◽  
Juraifa Jais
Keyword(s):  
Community Participation ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Top Management Support ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Relationship

This study aims to investigate the factors influencing research community participation and open innovation through the mediating role of absorptive capacity from the lens of Resource Based View and Dynamic Capability perspectives. Based on a survey of 115 senior engineering faculties from three research universities in Malaysia, this study applies the Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) to investigate the research model. The findings demonstrate that top management support has a major impact on research community participation. The findings also suggest that absorptive capacity mediates the association between research community participation and open innovation capability. This study provides a theoretical basis on the resources and capability that are pertinent for open innovation. From a practical perspective, the relationships among research community participation, absorptive capacity, and open innovation suggest how universities can promote research community participation and assess their absorptive capacity to achieve open innovation.

scholarly journals Organizational learning capability and open innovation

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (6) ◽  
pp. 1217-1231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Peris-Ortiz ◽  
Carlos Alberto Devece-Carañana ◽  
Antonio Navarro-Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Incremental Innovation ◽  
Learning Capability ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Learning Factors ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between open innovation (OI) and radical and incremental innovation success in knowledge-based companies. The company’s human resources and organizational learning capability are considered as the fundamental nexus of this relationship.Design/methodology/approachAt the conceptual level, the paper analyzes the relationships between dynamic capabilities and OI and between OI and innovation success. Fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) was used to study how innovation is implemented in 29 companies.FindingsFsQCA identifies combinations of factors that facilitate incremental innovations. These combinations reveal the path to implementing company policies that enable incremental innovation and foster radical innovation.Research limitations/implicationsThe nature of the study sample means that the findings should be generalized with precaution. The most valuable implication is the identification of combinations of factors that help companies manage innovation.Originality/valueScarce literature links organizational learning factors and OI to different types of innovation. The use of fsQCA to analyze the cases also marks a breakthrough in the innovation literature.

Demystifying Unlearning and Innovation in Higher Education Institutions

2019 ◽  
pp. 185-200
Author(s):  
Isabel Martins ◽  
Ana Martins ◽  
Orlando P. Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Organizational Innovation ◽  
Learning Ability ◽  
Dominant Logic ◽  
Organizational Forgetting ◽  
Constructivist Perspective ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Innovation In Higher Education ◽  
Vital Resource

This chapter analyzes human and emotional capitals as the main source for organizational change, innovation, and learning. Individuals and teams thus have the aptitude to revitalize their learning ability. The purpose of this chapter is to explore the relationship between intentional unlearning and forgetting. Dynamic capabilities and knowledge management emphasize that organizational innovation depends on knowledge considered to be the vital resource. The old dominant logic must be unlearned for organizations to embrace innovation and creativity. Organizational learning models are critiqued and the capacity for unlearning in organizational learning processes is highlighted. Unlearning typologies and related barriers of organizational forgetting are critiqued. Furthermore, unlearning leads to innovation as re-learning is based on initiative and experimentation between individuals in a blameless culture. The organizational learning social constructivist perspective is adopted in a dynamic capability theoretical framework. Furthermore, the notion of transdisciplinarity embraces a new age mindset which refutes the old dominant logic.

Entrepreneurial Orientation and Organizational Learning Ability Analysis for Innovation and Firm Performance

2017 ◽  
pp. 144-165
Author(s):  
Fakhraddin Maroofi
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Learning Ability ◽  
Organizational Conditions ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Research Stream ◽  
The Relationship

Organizational Learning Ability (OLA) and innovation performance playing a mediating role in the Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) and firm performance, as per this research. Results also suggest that EO improves OLA and innovation performance, which in turn improves firm performance. Innovation performance performs as a mediating variable between EO and firm performance. Our findings make an important contribution to the recent extension of the EO–firm performance research stream focusing on the intermediate links between EO and firm performance. In this paper, we also suggest that the relationship between EO and innovation performance cannot studied ?as a direct relationship, but it is also conditional or dependent on OLA, the organizational factors that facilitate the organizational learning process. EO is a managerial attitude that must be support by certain organizational conditions that facilitate learning and have positive implications for performance. The results support our conceptual model and show its utility in illustrating differences in intra-industry firm performance.

On the path towards open innovation: assessing the role of knowledge management capability and environmental dynamism in SMEs

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 553-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel Martinez-Conesa ◽  
Pedro Soto-Acosta ◽  
Elias George Carayannis
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Environmental Dynamism ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Integrative Research ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose This study aims to shed light on the internal and external antecedents of open innovation (OI) in the context of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with a special focus on the role of knowledge management (KM) capability. The paper develops and tests an integrative research model which assesses the effect of internal factors on KM capability; the impact of organizational and external factors, namely, KM capability and environmental dynamism, on OI; and whether environmental dynamism moderates the relationship between KM capability and OI. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on the knowledge-based view and the social exchange and the contingency theories, this paper develops an integrative research model which analyzes several relations between organizational antecedents of KM capability and its effect on OI by using covariance-based structural equation modeling on a data set of Spanish SMEs. Findings Results confirm that information technology-supported operations and commitment-based human resource practices have a positive and significant influence on KM capability. In contrast, results do not find support for the relationship between interdepartmental connectedness and KM capability, whereas both KM capability and environmental dynamism have a direct influence on OI. Originality/value This paper adds to existing research on OI, as it is the first study that addresses the critical role of KM capability for the implementation of OI.

How does IT capability affect open innovation performance? The mediating effect of absorptive capacity

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suming Wu ◽  
Xiuhao Ding ◽  
Ruihong Liu ◽  
Hui Gao
Keyword(s):  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
It Capability ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Realized Absorptive Capacity

Purpose Open innovation and information systems have been key topics in the theoretical domain, but little empirical research thoroughly examines how information technology (IT) capability affects open innovation performance. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between IT capability and open innovation performance and to expose the inner mechanism at the firm level. Design/methodology/approach This paper collected firm-level data in China; 232 usable questionnaires from different firms were collected. Then, the study used a structural equation model by AMOS for hypothesis testing. Findings The results indicate that both internal IT capability and external IT capability have positive impacts on open innovation performance; potential absorptive capacity and realized absorptive capacity mediate the relationship between external IT capability and open innovation performance. Additionally, realized absorptive capacity plays a mediating role in the relationship between internal IT capability and open innovation performance. Practical implications These findings indicate that practitioners should pay attention to the important relationship between absorptive capacity and IT capability and open innovation performance in Chinese businesses. Originality/value Existing research has emphasized the influence of IT on open innovation, but empirical studies have not thoroughly focused on the inner mechanisms of the effect of IT capability on open innovation performance. Drawing on firm capability theory, this paper classifies IT capability as internal and external IT capability and absorptive capacity as potential and realized absorptive capacity. Then, this paper confirms the mediating role of absorptive capacity between IT capability and open innovation performance.

scholarly journals A Study on the Influence of Multi-Teaching Strategy Intervention Program on College Students’ Absorptive Capacity and Employability

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Yao-Ping Peng ◽  
Lin Wang ◽  
Xiaoyao Yue ◽  
Yan Xu ◽  
Yongjun Feng
Keyword(s):  
Student Learning ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Intervention Strategy ◽  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
Test Group ◽  
University Education ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Learning Abilities ◽  
The Relationship

Student employability is a key aspect of any university degree. The relationship between high student learning outcomes and high employability is a problem that needs to be addressed and improved by colleges and universities. Students with high employability can find good jobs after graduation and perform well in the workplace. Employability is associated with the success of university education, thus giving the university a good reputation. This study explores the development of employability, alongside teaching and student learning abilities to examine how these variables affect student employability. The study collected 442 responses to a questionnaire to investigate the relationship between pedagogy for employability, problem-based learning, absorptive capacity, and student employability based on a structural model. The SEM results show that pedagogy for employability and problem-based learning positively correlate to absorptive capacity; pedagogy for employability and absorptive capacity positively correlate to student employability. We then analyzed a case study teaching intervention strategy with 221 students from the school of management and discuss the differential results of all variables. Results showed that the test group was superior to the control group in each variable performance, indicating that the intervention strategy proved effective. Based on these findings, this study proposes suggestions for future research.

Entrepreneurial Orientation and Organizational Learning Ability Analysis for Innovation and Firm Performance

2017 ◽  
pp. 607-627
Author(s):  
Fakhraddin Maroofi
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Learning Ability ◽  
Organizational Conditions ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Research Stream ◽  
The Relationship

Organizational Learning Ability (OLA) and innovation performance playing a mediating role in the Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) and firm performance, as per this research. Results also suggest that EO improves OLA and innovation performance, which in turn improves firm performance. Innovation performance performs as a mediating variable between EO and firm performance. Our findings make an important contribution to the recent extension of the EO–firm performance research stream focusing on the intermediate links between EO and firm performance. In this paper, we also suggest that the relationship between EO and innovation performance cannot studied ?as a direct relationship, but it is also conditional or dependent on OLA, the organizational factors that facilitate the organizational learning process. EO is a managerial attitude that must be support by certain organizational conditions that facilitate learning and have positive implications for performance. The results support our conceptual model and show its utility in illustrating differences in intra-industry firm performance.

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