...Effie Kesidou; Ram Narasimhan; Serdal Ozusaglam; Chee Yew Wong Purpose Prior research on open innovation has not investigated changes in knowledge acquisition strategies of firms over time overlooking how learning from past knowledge acquisition can change subsequent search strategies. Also, prior...

... of absorptive capacity and the literature on open innovation to explore the role of external search in the digitization of manufacturing. Design/methodology/approach The authors developed and distributed a survey to manufacturing firms in Switzerland, for which 151 complete responses were received from...

... stakeholders. This research is based on five case studies. Further fine-grained, longitudinal research is required to fully understand this phenomenon in a wider range of contexts. The paper contributes to practices tied to open innovation and provides guidance on how organisations might use large...

...Miriam Wilhelm; Wilfred Dolfsma Purpose The rising need to innovate and obtain knowledge from more distant knowledge sources calls for new innovation strategies and a better integration of other external actors who lie outside the traditional automotive supply chain. Such an open innovation...