Adopting open innovation in supply networks

Kazemargi, Niloofar; Cerruti, Corrado; Appolloni, Andrea

doi:10.1504/ijmed.2016.078216

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“…However, access to knowledge of the suppliers can be even more crucial to the companies that collaborate with a large number of partners [91]. With active knowledge-sharing, suppliers, who form an essential part of the supply chain, are valuable sources of knowledge and innovation [97]. According to [91], another problem concerns limited access to knowledge, especially to external knowledge sources possessed by suppliers.…”

Section: State-of-the-art Of Knowledge Management Approaches For Suppmentioning

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Green Supplier Selection Criteria: From a Literature Review to a Comprehensive Knowledge Base

Konys

2019

Sustainability

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The supplier selection problem is one of the most important competitive challenges used by modern enterprises. Due to the fact that companies have to improve their practices in the management of a green supply chain that aims to respect green practices and technologies to increase sustainability, selecting the optimal green supplier is a challenging multi-dimensional problem. While most of the research has focused on the development and improvement of new methods, relatively limited attention has been paid to the identifying sets of criteria and capturing the domain knowledge. This issue is significant because a correctly identified set of criteria plays a vital role in supporting the decision-making process. The approach presented creates a gap between classical assumption of decision making and knowledge-based problem structuring. The current paper presents a methodological and practical background for capturing and handling knowledge about green supplier selection criteria, supported by a formal guideline for their appropriate acquisition. In addressing this research challenge, the aims of this paper are twofold: providing meta-analysis to reveal a collection of key data supported by a formal and trustworthy bibliometric analysis, and capturing knowledge in one place in the form of ontology for enabling selection and evaluation criteria of green suppliers is proposed. The proposed ontology is available for public use.Sustainability 2019, 11, 4208 2 of 41 issues related to business management and processes. In particular, the discovery and selection of knowledgeable suppliers has become a fundamental issue for global supply chain management.The choice of valuable suppliers ought to be focused on that type of partners that aim to respect green practices and technologies to increase sustainability. The assessment of the selection criteria does not only encompass the offered services and material quality, but also the supplier's opportunities for sustainable development, by adding individual green orientation to models of entrepreneurial intention to increase their explanatory power. Thus, a crucial key is to further establish the green policy of the company, especially with regard to supply chain management. There are many recent studies which focus on the green supplier selection issues, and there are also different approaches based on various methods, statistical models and artificial intelligence based models [9], data envelopment analysis [8], multi-criteria decision models/approaches [10], and cluster analysis, case-based reasoning systems [5]. With the large number of works oriented towards the development of methodological background in the green supplier selection process, little attention is paid to identifying and selecting the proper set of assessment criteria. Thus, the construction of models is based only on the knowledge of the experts/decision makers. [11][12][13][14]. It should be pointed that this process is very significant because a properly selected set of criteria determines the quality and c...

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Section: State-of-the-art Of Knowledge Management Approaches For Suppmentioning

confidence: 99%

Green Supplier Selection Criteria: From a Literature Review to a Comprehensive Knowledge Base

Konys

2019

Sustainability

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“…Involving suppliers in innovation is a well-studied topic in the current literature, especially on supply chain management (see Johnsen, (2009) and Kazemargi et al (2016)). To benefit from suppliers in innovation projects, firms need to understand and accept that the supplier is a member of the innovation project and that the knowledge provided by the supplier is consistent with the objectives of the project (Ragatz et al, 2002;Santamaria & Surroca, 2011).…”

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Open innovation: effects from external knowledge sources on abandoned innovation projects

Tranekjer

2017

BPMJ

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Purpose-Innovation projects are often risky and costly. But not all innovation projects lead to commercialisation; some are abandoned, and these abandoned innovation projects can be classified as a waste of resources. Therefore, this article studies the influence of different external sources and a firm's decision to abandon an innovation project. The aim is to provide a broader understanding of abandoned projects. Methodology approach-The data applied are quantitative data and the empirical background is the Danish Innovation Survey 2009. The sample consists of Danish manufacturing firms with 10 employees or more (N = 840). The results are based on logistic regression analysis. Findings-Results reveal that firms should consider that the involvement of customers can lead them to abandon innovation projects. However, if firms combine customers with universities, it will decrease the likelihood of innovation projects being abandoned. A more in-depth analysis shows that the involvement of customers from 'Europe' (countries in Europe excluding Denmark) and the 'US' leads to innovation projects being abandoned while customers from 'other countries' (the rest of the world, including China and India) have the opposite effect. Originality-The contribution is to the limited literature on abandoned innovation projects by suggesting that the type of external sources is a significant factor in firms' decisions to abandon innovation projects. The article identifies that the involvement of certain external sources leads firms to decide to abandon innovation projects, and that the country of origin of the external sources is an important criterion to consider in relation to a firm's decision to abandon innovation projects. Keywords-abandoned innovation projects, open innovation, external sources of knowledge, country of origin, logistic regression analysis.

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“…Adding strong ties for exploitation along the supply chain enables the focal firms to gain access to complementary knowledge and resources and, in that way, pursue exploitative innovation. This occurs because the first-tier supplier may not be willing to share its knowledge and technology with focal firms, diluting its competitive advantage (Grant, 1996) embedded in the supplier's network (Kazemargi et al. , 2016).…”

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Managing open innovation within supply networks in mature industries

Kazemargi

Tavoletti

Appolloni

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EJIM

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate how focal firms in supply networks manage weak and strong ties for exploration and exploitation innovation in mature industries. In doing so, the paper extends the understanding of how focal firms manage open innovation (OI).Design/methodology/approachThe empirical base is a multiple case study conducted on three companies operating in mature industries in Europe.FindingsFindings of this study reveal, analyze and explain a diverse set of OI practices in the supply networks of mature industries in which the focal firms integrate strong and weak supply ties to enhance innovation outcomes. This study provides a fine-grained view of the benefits of the additive and interactive effects of strong and weak ties in OI. More specifically, the analysis reveals an enhancing role of strong supply ties in exploration, which previously was associated solely with weak ties. Moreover, this study sheds light on the dominant and orchestrating roles of focal firms.Practical implicationsThe findings provide insights to enhance OI practices beyond the limited role of the weak ties of the supply network and highlight the essential role of the strong supply ties in mature industries.Originality/valueWhile previous studies have associated exploration with weak ties, findings of this study reveal that exploration-oriented activities in mature industries also extend to strong ties. In the strong ties of mature industries, this study finds there is not only the exploitation of existing knowledge but also the reconfiguration and innovation of products.

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Adopting open innovation in supply networks

Cited by 11 publications

References 43 publications

Green Supplier Selection Criteria: From a Literature Review to a Comprehensive Knowledge Base

Green Supplier Selection Criteria: From a Literature Review to a Comprehensive Knowledge Base

Open innovation: effects from external knowledge sources on abandoned innovation projects

Managing open innovation within supply networks in mature industries

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