How has Japan become a major economic power, a world leader in the automotive and electronics industries? What is the secret of their success? The consensus has been that, though the Japanese are not particularly innovative, they are exceptionally skilful at imitation, at improving products that already exist. But now two leading Japanese business experts, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hiro Takeuchi, turn this conventional wisdom on its head: Japanese firms are successful, they contend, precisely because they are innovative, because they create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies. Examining case studies drawn from such firms as Honda, Canon, Matsushita, NEC, 3M, GE, and the U.S. Marines, this book reveals how Japanese companies translate tacit to explicit knowledge and use it to produce new processes, products, and services.

The knowledge-creating company : how Japanese companies create the dynamics of innovation

Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology

How open is innovation

https://www.pogc.ir/Portals/0/maghalat/890707-4.pdf

Open innovation in SMEs: Trends, motives and management challenges

https://www.rug.nl/staff/k.r.e.huizingh/openinnovationstate.pdf

Open innovation: State of the art and future perspectives

Interorganizational collaboration and innovation: Toward a portfolio approach

Book review: Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm / by H. Chesbrough, W. Vanhaverbeke and J. West. - Oxford University Press. - ISBN 978-0-19929072-7

On the basis of a case study of two sequential alliances between the same firms, we develop a more integrative perspective on alliance governance, providing insights into the interactions between structural and relational aspects, both within and between transactions. In particular, we disentangle (1) how contracts with a similar degree but different nature of formalization (narrow versus broad) trigger different kinds of trust dynamics (negative versus positive) at both operational and managerial levels, (2) how trust dynamics and contract application (rigid versus flexible) coevolve over time, and (3) how relational dynamics in previous transactions influence the design of contracts in subsequent transactions.

Toward An Integrative Perspective on Alliance Governance: Connecting Contract Design, Trust Dynamics, and Contract Application

Technology Alliance Portfolios and Financial Performance: Value-Enhancing and Cost-Increasing Effects of Open Innovation*

The majority of empirical studies on the HRM-performance link report a positive story. The costs associated with the productivity rise due to high performance work practices (HPWP) have been largely neglected. The purpose of this study is to develop a conceptual framework that maps both the value-enhancing and cost-raising impact of HPWP. In addition, we want to pronounce upon their overall effect on financial performance. To test our model, we rely on a sample of small businesses. Understanding both performance and cost-related effects of the implementation of HPWP is particularly valuable for small businesses since they often lack financial resources to implement HPWP and benefit less from economies of scale compared to their larger counterparts. Study results indicate that although greater use of HPWP is associated with increased productivity, this effect is offset by increased labour costs. However, we find an overall positive effect of HPWP on firm profitability.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm?abstractid=884291

Dries Faems

Papers

Interorganizational collaboration and innovation: Toward a portfolio approach

Book review: Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm / by H. Chesbrough, W. Vanhaverbeke and J. West. - Oxford University Press. - ISBN 978-0-19929072-7

Toward An Integrative Perspective on Alliance Governance: Connecting Contract Design, Trust Dynamics, and Contract Application

Technology Alliance Portfolios and Financial Performance: Value-Enhancing and Cost-Increasing Effects of Open Innovation*

Unravelling the HRM–Performance Link: Value-Creating and Cost-Increasing Effects of Small Business HRM*