The Influences of Open Communication by Senior Leaders and Legitimacy Judgments on Effective Open Innovation

2020 ◽  
pp. 232948842098206
Author(s):  
Chong Wang ◽  
Peter W. Cardon ◽  
Ci-Rong Li ◽  
Chun-Xuan Li
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Internal Communication ◽  
Senior Leaders ◽  
Open Communication ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
External Communication ◽  
Innovation Strategies ◽  
Indirect Relationship ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Project Level

Firms increasingly recognize open innovation as a key aspect of their innovation strategies. This study of 200 open innovation managers showed that open internal communication by senior leaders drives higher legitimacy judgments, which in turn drives open innovation success. Further, legitimacy judgments mediate the relationship between open internal communication and open innovation success. Open external communication by senior leaders moderates the indirect relationship between open internal communication and open innovation success, with more open external communication strengthening the influence on open innovation success. These results suggest firm-level open communication by senior leaders is essential for project-level open innovation success.

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.

ORGANISATIONAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION AND THE MODERATING EFFECT OF OPEN INNOVATION STRATEGIES

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (02) ◽  
pp. 1650019 ◽  
Author(s):  
ACHIM HECKER ◽  
ALOIS GANTER
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Community Innovation Survey ◽  
Organisational Innovation ◽  
External Relations ◽  
New Process ◽  
Innovation Strategies ◽  
Fourth Wave ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
German Part

This paper distinguishes three types of organisational innovation — those in a firm’s knowledge management, workplace, and external relations — and studies their impact on firms’ technological innovation performance. Special attention is paid to the openness and external orientation of a firm’s R&D activities as factor moderating the relationship between organisational and technological innovation. Drawing on the fourth wave of the German part of the Community Innovation Survey (CIS IV), this study shows that organisational innovation acts as an important facilitator of new process (but not product) development. Organisational innovations furthermore prove to be complements (but in some cases also substitutes) to external knowledge sourcing and open innovation strategies.

The Relationship Between Prisonization and Social Skills among Prison Inmates

1996 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
DARREN P. LAWSON ◽  
CHRIS SEGRIN ◽  
TERESA D. WARD
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Correctional Facility ◽  
Internal Communication ◽  
Prison Inmates ◽  
Organizational Assimilation ◽  
External Communication ◽  
Measured Frequency ◽  
Prison Culture ◽  
The Relationship

This study examined the process of organizational assimilation and how it was affected by social skills, within the context of a midwestern correctional facility. Participants were inmates housed in a maximum-, medium-, or minimum-security prison. A survey was distributed that measured frequency of inmates' external communication, sources of internal communication, prisonization, powerlessness, and social skills. Results supported links between prisonization and amount of internal and external communication and powerlessness. However, inmates' prisonization was not related to their social skills. Results indicated that inmates' assimilation into prison culture is influenced by intra- and extraprison variables.

scholarly journals Employee External Communication Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis: Case-study of a State-Owned Company

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Priyo Perdana ◽  
◽  
Lusi Latifunnur ◽  
Evelyn Hendriana ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Negative Information ◽  
Internal Communication ◽  
Communication Behavior ◽  
Positive Information ◽  
External Communication ◽  
Owned Company ◽  
Symmetrical Communication ◽  
The Relationship

A crisis can trigger employees to engage in external communication behavior. However, the inconsistency of the findings of studies on megaphoning behavior suggests the relationship depends on the type of crisis. With the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, this study aims to examine the influence of employee-organization relations and symmetrical internal communication on employee external communication behavior. Data were collected from 400 employees of a state-owned company in Indonesia and analyzed using PLS-SEM. The result shows that good relations between employees and organization can encourage employees to stand up for the company, reduce employee’s intention to share negative communications, encourage employees to recognize crisis as a serious problem, can make employees feel more involved and less constrained in resolving the problems. Employees who feel that they could recognize the crisis tend to spread positive information and restraint from sharing negative information. Meanwhile, those who feel that they were involved in the crisis and less constrained in solving the problem do not influence their interest in spreading positive or negative information. The study finds that symmetrical communication between employees and their companies may encourage employees to spread positive information, but it did not affect their interest in disseminating negative information. Keywords: Employee-

Open Innovation as a Business Entrepreneurship Strategy

2020 ◽  
pp. 201-231
Author(s):  
Miguel Angel Gomez-Borja ◽  
Carlota Lorenzo-Romero ◽  
Leticia del-Pozo Ruiz
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Management Actions ◽  
Online Business ◽  
Innovation Strategies ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship established through online channels between customers and organizations defines a new and challenging scenario. Within a digital environment and through innovation strategies based on joint participation, it is possible to interact with the customer in a more personalized way with more differentiating actions. To identify the relevance of current online business management actions, this chapter proposes an approximation to the term open innovation. Authors posit the growing relevance for organizations of the application of innovation strategies through external inputs, the interaction between various agents and crowdsourcing actions. They discuss the new role of the consumers as co-creating agents of value in the new ecosystems of entrepreneurship.

Investigating open innovation strategies and firm performance: the moderating role of technological capability and market information management capability

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suqin Liao ◽  
Lihua Fu ◽  
Zhiying Liu
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Technological Capability ◽  
Market Information ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Management Capability ◽  
Innovation Strategies ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose This study aims to assess how firm functional capability moderates the relationship between two types of open innovation and performance, with a special focus on the role of technological capability and the join effect market information management capability. This paper develops and tests a research model, which assesses how the performance implications of two open innovation forms are shaped by the technological capability and how such an effect is contingent on market information management capability. Design/methodology/approach Survey data were collected from 238 Chinese high-tech enterprises. Structural equation modeling and linear regression were used to test the data. Then, the main research questions were answered. Findings Empirically results show that technological capability strengthens the influence of inbound open innovation on firm performance. However, the moderate effect of technological capability on the relationship between outbound open innovation and firm performance remains unsupported. A higher technological capability with a high level of market information management capability increases the efficacy of outbound open innovation in gaining superior performance. Additional analysis shows that when firms implement inbound activities and possess a strong technological capability, they will achieve higher performance if they possess a moderate level of market information management capability, compared with a high or low level. Originality/value This paper provides new evidence on the benefits of different open innovation strategies on firm’s performance and, more importantly, the specific firm-level contingencies (technological capability and market information management capability) under which these benefits are more likely to be enhanced. It clarifies what the capabilities are and how they interact to foster the robust open innovation strategies, which sheds new light on the boundary conditions that affect the open innovations–firm performance relationship.

scholarly journals An Investigation into the Performance of an Ambidextrously Balanced Innovator and Its Relatedness to Open Innovation

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shinhyung Kang ◽  
JungTae Hwang
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Radical Innovation ◽  
Incremental Innovation ◽  
Community Innovation Survey ◽  
Radical Innovations ◽  
Korean Version ◽  
Innovation Output ◽  
Innovation Strategies ◽  
The Relationship

This study investigated the relationship between open innovation and the radicalness of innovation. The balance between radical and incremental innovation is an essential part of the ambidextrous use of explorative and exploitative strategies, and this study assumed that open innovation is usually interlinked with explorative strategies and is thus related to radical innovation performance. Accordingly, following an empirical investigation, we demonstrate that the balance of open innovation firms is slightly skewed toward explorative radical innovation. Using the Korean version of the community innovation survey, we show that the relative radicalness that is projected on innovation output exhibits an inverted-U curve. Furthermore, the curve shifts based on the level of inbound open innovation. Our results suggest that there is an ambidextrous balance between radical and incremental innovation while implementing open innovation. In addition, the research results imply that firms placing greater weight on explorative radical innovations need to consider in-depth open innovation strategies.

Employee Strengths Use and Thriving at Work

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 197-205
Author(s):  
He Ding ◽  
Xixi Chu
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Model Data ◽  
Strengths Use ◽  
Moderated Mediation Model ◽  
Indirect Relationship ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Humble Leadership ◽  
Thriving At Work

Abstract. This study aimed to investigate the relationship of employee strengths use with thriving at work by proposing a moderated mediation model. Data were collected at two time points, spaced by a 2-week interval. A total of 260 medical staff completed strengths use, perceived humble leadership, self-efficacy, and thriving scales. The results of path analysis showed that strengths use is positively related to thriving, and self-efficacy mediates the relationship of strengths use with thriving. In addition, this study also found perceived humble leadership to positively moderate the direct relationship of strengths use with self-efficacy and the indirect relationship of strengths use with thriving via self-efficacy. This study contributes to a better understanding of how and when strengths use affects thriving.

scholarly journals Open Innovation with Relational Capital, Technological Innovation Capital, and International Performance in SMEs

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3418
Author(s):  
Dongwoo Ryu ◽  
Kwang Ho Baek ◽  
Junghyun Yoon
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Relational Capital ◽  
Innovation Capability ◽  
Perspective View ◽  
International Performance ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Relationship

The importance of international markets is constantly emphasized for small and medium enterprises(SMEs). In previous studies, technological innovation capabilities were emphasized as a factor that enables SMEs to compete in the international market. To this end, SMEs need to cooperate with external partners to strengthen their technological innovation capabilities to thus improve their international performance. With the perspective view of open innovation, this research explores the effects of relational capital and technological innovation capability on international performance, with a particular focus on the moderating effect of alliance proactiveness. Building on previous literature regarding internationalization, technological innovation, and alliance proactiveness, research hypotheses were developed and tested using data collected from 175 SMEs. A hierarchical regression analysis was applied. The analysis showed that, first, relational capital had a significant effect on the technological innovation capability. Second, technological innovation capability has a significant influence on the international performance. Third, technological innovation capability mediated the relationship between relational capital and international performance. Finally, alliance proactiveness was found to moderate the relationship between technological innovation capability and international performance. The key research findings imply that relational capital and alliance proactiveness are the key factors of international performance, as they improved the development of the technological innovation capability.

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