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Table 3

OI practices across the cases

OI practices	Description of OI practices	Supplier tie	Micro-practices	Innovation orientation	Role of the focal firm	Evidence from cases*
Additive effects
• Adding strong ties for exploitation	Establishing partnerships along the supply chain to exploit existing knowledge embedded within supply networks	Strong	Searching and evaluating potential strategic suppliers and involving sub-suppliers	Exploitation	Dominant role	O, H and E
• Collaborating with strong ties for exploration	Promoting and being open to new ideas coming from strategic partners	Strong	Innovation collaboration and joint development projects (by designing incentives programs)	Exploration	Dominant role	O and H
• Adding weak ties for exploration	Connecting to weak supply ties to access diverse sets of technology solutions and knowledge	Weak	Outsourcing problem solving, co-develop solutions, technology scouting, collaboration with (new) smaller suppliers (through workshops, round table meetings, incentives or rewarding programs for suppliers)	Exploration	Dominant role	O, H, and E
Interactive effects
• Promoting OI for exploration	Encouraging and supporting strong supply ties to practice the OI model	Both	increasing awareness (by OI seminars and events)	Exploration	Orchestrating role	H and E
• Collaborating with strong ties for exploitation	Involving both strong ties and weak ties in innovation	Both	Having an open doors attitude evaluate new ideas coming from all sides	Exploitation	Dominant role	O and H
• Connecting ties for exploitation	Facilitating knowledge exchange between strong and weak ties to enhance exploitation	Both	Acting as an intermediary between suppliers and supporting industry-wide technologies	Exploitation	Orchestrating role	H
• Connecting ties for exploration	Facilitating knowledge exchange between strong and weak ties to enhance exploration	Both	Sponsoring joint R&D projects within the network and sponsoring an open supply network	Exploration	Orchestrating role	O, H and E

OI practices	Description of OI practices	Supplier tie	Micro-practices	Innovation orientation	Role of the focal firm	Evidence from cases*
Additive effects
• Adding strong ties for exploitation	Establishing partnerships along the supply chain to exploit existing knowledge embedded within supply networks	Strong	Searching and evaluating potential strategic suppliers and involving sub-suppliers	Exploitation	Dominant role	O, H and E
• Collaborating with strong ties for exploration	Promoting and being open to new ideas coming from strategic partners	Strong	Innovation collaboration and joint development projects (by designing incentives programs)	Exploration	Dominant role	O and H
• Adding weak ties for exploration	Connecting to weak supply ties to access diverse sets of technology solutions and knowledge	Weak	Outsourcing problem solving, co-develop solutions, technology scouting, collaboration with (new) smaller suppliers (through workshops, round table meetings, incentives or rewarding programs for suppliers)	Exploration	Dominant role	O, H, and E
Interactive effects
• Promoting OI for exploration	Encouraging and supporting strong supply ties to practice the OI model	Both	increasing awareness (by OI seminars and events)	Exploration	Orchestrating role	H and E
• Collaborating with strong ties for exploitation	Involving both strong ties and weak ties in innovation	Both	Having an open doors attitude evaluate new ideas coming from all sides	Exploitation	Dominant role	O and H
• Connecting ties for exploitation	Facilitating knowledge exchange between strong and weak ties to enhance exploitation	Both	Acting as an intermediary between suppliers and supporting industry-wide technologies	Exploitation	Orchestrating role	H
• Connecting ties for exploration	Facilitating knowledge exchange between strong and weak ties to enhance exploration	Both	Sponsoring joint R&D projects within the network and sponsoring an open supply network	Exploration	Orchestrating role	O, H and E

Note(s): *O: Offshore Comp, H: Home-APLNC, E: Energy Comp