Corporate Groups and Open Innovation: The Case of Panasonic in Japan

Hiroyuki Nakazono, Takashi Hikino and Asli M. Colpan

Chapter Chapter 12 in Open Innovation through Strategic Alliances, 2014, pp 253-275 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter examines the struggling transformation process of a Japanese corporate group from its conventionally adopted closed technological innovation model to open innovation. The chapter incorporates the structural feature of corporate groups, an operational model characteristic of large Japanese companies, as the critical mediating variable that influences the organizational choice of conventional closed and novel open innovation processes. The corporate group is the organizational design implemented by a firm with the strategy of related diversification that adopts the consequential structure of multidivisional form but recognizes the strategic and operational autonomy of those operating divisions.

Keywords: Open Innovation; Innovation Model; Business Group; Parent Company; Corporate Group (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137394507_12

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