Management Decision: Volume 56 Issue 6

The human dimension of open innovation

Improving firm performance through inter-organizational collaborative innovations: The key mediating role of the employee’s job-related attitudes

The purpose of this paper is to add to the existing knowledge about how firm performance is influenced by their involvement in collaborative innovation. The contextual…

HR practices for explorative and exploitative alliances in smart cities: Evidences from smart city managers’ perspective

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how multinational enterprises (MNEs) manage human resources (HR) in explorative and exploitative alliances in smart city…

How innovation climate drives management styles in each stage of the organization lifecycle: The human dimension at recruitment process

Organizations that offer services based on knowledge and innovation consider their recruitment process as strategic. The purpose of this paper is to consider that…

Organizational learning capability and open innovation

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between open innovation (OI) and radical and incremental innovation success in knowledge-based companies. The…

Uncovering the role of virtual agents in co-creation contexts: An application to the online wine business

The purpose of this paper is to understand the roles of virtual agents in a virtual co-creation context by exploring their influence on online trust. An empirical study is…

Unpacking open innovation neighborhoods: le milieu of the lean smart city

The purpose of this paper is to satisfy a clear gap in the main field of open innovation research whereabouts a very little scholarship try to analyze the mechanisms of…

Open innovation and the human resource dimension: An investigation into the Italian manufacturing sector

The purpose of this paper is to understand if and how the adoption of an open innovation (OI) strategy, that is acquiring externally developed knowledge, influences the…

Managing virtual teams for open innovation in Global Business Services industry

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of human dimensions, team climates, and technological features on Global Virtual Team (GVT) performance in the…

Developing a competency model for open innovation: From the individual to the organisational level

From the organisational perspective, the authors know that management, including innovation management, becomes less “organised” by bureaucracy and administrative tools…

Managing skills for open innovation: the case of biotechnology

The purpose of this paper is to explore the composition of skillsets in biotechnology from the perspective of employers and its relation to open innovation processes in…

CEO turnover and the new leader propensity to open innovation: Agency-resource dependence view and social identity perspective

In an increasingly turbulent and competitive environment, open innovation could be critical for a firm’s success, favoring organizational flexibility and accelerating…

Assessing the innovation capability of small- and medium-sized enterprises using a non-parametric and integrative approach

The aftermath of the recent financial crisis has shown that the ability to innovate is a vital management skill and that the methodologies used to evaluate innovation…

Shareholder value and open innovation: evidence from Dividend Champions

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the companies listed on the US stock market in order to investigate for the selected companies, called the Dividend Champions, the…

Building resilient clusters through HRM systems: a multiple mediator model

There is a growing research interest in the relationships between networks and the firm’s assets and between networks and innovation. Studies have shown the complexity and…

HRM and product innovation: does innovative work behaviour mediate that relationship?

The purpose of this paper is to empirically analyse the mediator effect of innovative work behaviour (IWB) between the firm’s human resource management system and product…

A multidisciplinary approach for assessing open innovation model impact on stock return dynamics: The case of Fujifilm company

The purpose of this paper is to propose a new statistical approach to evaluate complex open innovation projects on a quantitative basis. In certain circumstances, open…

Dark open innovation in a criminal organizational context: the case of Madoff’s Ponzi fraud

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the processes of open innovation in the context of a fraudulent organization and, using the infamous Bernie L. Madoff…