The existing literature on open innovation strongly emphasizes on the organizational level, while neglecting the people side and especially the perspective of employees working in OIprojects. This study analyzes determinants of R&D employees' knowledge exchange in OIprojects by means of the...

Mit der Zunahme der Wissensintensität in der Wertschöpfung gewinnen auch die Entstehung, der Transfer und die Kombination von Wissen sowie der Zusammenhang zwischen Wissen und Innovationen eine steigende Bedeutung. Vor diesem Hintergrund werden die Innovationsstrategien der Unternehmen zu...

Innovation processes within corporations increasingly tap into international technology sources, yet little is known about the relative contribution of different types of innovation channels. We investigate the effectiveness of different types of international technology sourcing activities...

This study gives a new identity to a knowledge search mode named search diversity and investigates how it is more rigorous in capturing knowledge heterogeneity in comparison to general assessment of search breadth. By distinguishing between diversifying and expanding search domain as building...