Open Innovation in Inter-Organisational Networks in the IT Industry

Karlheinz Kautz (), Sameen M. Rab () and Michael Sinnet ()
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Karlheinz Kautz: Copenhagen Business School, Operations Management
Sameen M. Rab: NNIT Management Consulting
Michael Sinnet: Danske Capital, Kgs.

Chapter Chapter 5 in Managing Open Innovation Technologies, 2013, pp 67-89 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Open innovation has been recognised by the IT industry as a novel way to create innovation, where organisations open their innovation processes and cooperate with others to develop new products and services. We study open innovation by looking at another new trend, innovation through customising standard software as a business model. We investigate the open innovation activities of an inter-organisational network which consists of a small customising company, a large global software producer and other involved companies. We integrate formally separate aspects of open innovation and inter-organisational networks, broaden the view from one focal firm to the relations in a network of companies and underline the importance of balanced formal and informal relations, and ‘coopetive’ and opportunistic behaviour for the open innovation process.

Keywords: Inter-organizational Networks; Open Innovation Processes; Vanhaverbeke; Flexible Product Architecture; Customizable Software (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31650-0_5

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