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

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057%2Fjibs.1990.10.pdf

Managing across Borders: The Transnational Solution

Innovation ecosystems: A critical examination

El artículo tiene como objetivo evaluar el nivel de desarrollo de la capacidad de absorción realizada (RACAP) en las Pyme colombianas. Se parte de una muestra de 363 Pyme colombianas (Dane,2012), se usa una revisión de literatura con apoyo del análisis de contenido y un modelo de regresión lineal, que permiten mostrar la existencia de una correlación lineal positiva entre la adquisición y asimilación del conocimiento externo en las organizaciones objeto de estudio,. Palabras clave: Capacidades de absorción, capacidades de absorción potencial, medición de las capacidades de absorción ABSTRACT:

Measurement of potential absorption capacity in Colombia's innovative companies [Medición de la capacidad de absorción potencial en las empresas innovadoras de Colombia]

The concept of business models and consequently business model innovation has its foundation in corporate practice, strategic management, and industrial economics. However, business models are not a strategy but constitute the core and driver of a strategy as well as the key for decoding, understanding, and effectively communicating a strategy both within an organization as well as across its business ecosystem. As with Business Model, the Business Model Innovation literature is not well developed. This paper focuses on the effects that can be achieved through business model innovation, in particular organizational sustainability. In this regard, the paper focuses on the organizational design and governance and the role different stakeholders, predominantly customers and partners play in the innovation process towards organizational sustainability. Finally, the ways by which organizational performance is influenced by different business models are also explored, aiming to shed light on this theoretical gap. The results provide insights to manufacturers in developing countries, overcoming their dependence on commoditized products and OEM manufacturing while maintaining a sustainable ecosystem. Finally, implications for theory, policy, and practice are outlined along with the suggestions for future research.

Business Model Innovation as Lever of Organizational Sustainability

Based on an ecosystem view of innovation management and in-depth case studies of firms in China and abroad, a novel paradigm of innovation management—Total Innovation Management (TIM)—is put forward in this paper. This new paradigm draws on three distinct areas of recent research, namely the innovation theory of the firm, the resource-based view (RBV), and the complexity theory. It introduces the theoretical framework of TIM, and presents a tri-dimensional innovation strategy model, which includes all elements of innovation, all innovators, and innovation in all times and spaces, and aims at value added and created.

Total Innovation Management: a novel paradigm of innovation management in the 21st century

This paper explores Haier group's Tao of innovation mainly by the practice and experience of Haier Group. Based on it, the authors put forward the theoretical frame-work of the emerging new paradigm of total innovation management (TIM). Case in this leading Chinese enterprise has shown some exciting evidences that implementing TIM can have positive relations to the value creation/added of enterprise as well as the accumulation of its core competency. Beginning with the introduction of Haier's development and achievements, this paper explores the Haier's Tao of innovation in detail, which includes the evolution of all the innovation agents such as strategy, management, culture, organization, technology and so on, and analyzes the relations and interactions of them. Based on it, the authors indicate that it's the effective and systemic synergy and management of all the innovation agents that contribute to the rapid development of Haier Group. Grasping the marrow of TIM and putting it into practice is one of the crucial approaches at present for Chinese enterprises to reduce the gap with international advanced enterprises as soon as possible.

The Haier's Tao of innovation: a case study of the emerging total innovation management (TIM)

To what extent can non-R&D-based innovation contribute to innovation performance in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)? To answer this question, this study investigates the moderating role of absorptive capacity in the relationships between three non-R&D-based innovation activities and firms’ innovation performance, namely ‘technology adoption,’ ‘imitation and minor modification,’ and ‘innovative marketing.’ Using data on 329 Chinese manufacturing SMEs, we find that the absorptive capacity of SMEs positively moderates the relationship between innovative marketing and innovation performance. However, the absorptive capacity of SMEs negatively moderates the relationship between imitation and minor modification and their innovation performance. These findings contribute to understanding the effects of non-R&D-based innovation activities, and the role of SMEs’ absorptive capacity in a non-R&D context.

Non-R&D-based innovation activities and performance in Chinese SMEs: the role of absorptive capacity

International R&D by multinational corporations (MNCs) from developing countries is on the increase. Some technology-intensive Chinese MNCs, which are playing an increasingly significant role in carrying out Chinese innovation strategies, have recently established global R&D networks. Based on the evidence from two technology-intensive Chinese MNCs in the telecommunications equipment industry, this paper focuses specifically on exploring the driving forces and organisational configurations of international R&D in these MNCs. Our findings and results show, firstly, that establishing home-base-augmenting/strategic R&D sites in developed and other developing countries is the predominant driving force behind R&D internationalisation in these Chinese MNCs. Secondly, in terms of the dispersion of R&D activities and the degree of cooperation between individual R&D units, each of these MNCs has successively gone through different organisational configurations of international R&D at its three strategic stages: ethnocentric centralised R&D, geocentric centralised R&D, and R&D hub model.

Gang Zheng

Papers

Total Innovation Management: a novel paradigm of innovation management in the 21st century

The Haier's Tao of innovation: a case study of the emerging total innovation management (TIM)

Non-R&D-based innovation activities and performance in Chinese SMEs: the role of absorptive capacity

Driving forces and organisational configurations of international R&D: the case of technology-intensive Chinese multinationals

Leading for constructive innovation: Preliminary evidence from China