Consequences of open innovation: effects on skill-driven recruitment

Bello‐Pintado, Alejandro; Bianchi, Carlos

doi:10.1108/jkm-08-2019-0437

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“…This results suggest that innovation strategies integrating R&D are more challenging in terms of knowledge base as stated recently by Bello-Pintado and Bianchi (2020), and shed some new light to explain why firms adopt innovation strategies that in the most cases only are in the form of technology acquisition as usually happens in less developed contexts (Crespi et al, 2019;Dutrenit et al, 2019).…”

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Workforce education diversity, work organization and innovation propensity

Bello‐Pintado

Bianchi

2020

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PurposeDiversity of people, knowledge and resources has been identified as a determinant of firms' growth. This paper focusses on innovation propensity as a critical dimension of firm's growth path, aiming to analyse the effects of the firm's horizontal educational diversity (HED) on the propensity to conduct different technological innovation activities (TIAs). In addition, considering the evidence showing that these effects are neither direct nor linear, the authors analyse the moderating role of the firm's organizational practices oriented to knowledge sharing (KS) on the association between HED and the adoption of TIAs.Design/methodology/approachFollowing the theoretical arguments of the resource-based view (RBV), the evolutionary economics and the dynamic capabilities approach and related empirical evidences, the authors proposed four hypotheses regarding the effect of HED on TIAs and the moderating role of work organization practices oriented to promote KS. Empirically, the authors calculated different HED diversity indexes capturing two basic dimensions: variety and balance. Hence, using instrumental variables and panel data techniques to control endogeneity biases, the authors tested the proposed hypotheses using a data set of Uruguayan manufacturing firms between 2004 and 2015.FindingsIn line with previous evidence, results showed idiosyncratic context effects. The authors found a robust, linear, positive and significant relationship between HED and TIAs, but the effect can only be consistently associated with the adoption of internal or external research and development (R&D) activities. Moreover, the moderating role of work organization practices oriented to promote KS is positive and significant when firms engage in TIAs. For technological innovations that only involve the acquisiton of technology (AT), a positive effect is also observed but always associated to organizational practices oriented to promote KS.Originality/valueThis paper revisits the analysis of workforce diversity for a relatively less explored context. This research contributes to the field by linking HED and work organization practices to understand firm's innovation propensity in a developing context. Moreover, while other studies have focussed only on top management or R&D team diversity, the authors have analysed the whole professional's workforce. It allows the authors to discuss the effects of diversity on innovation propensity in the light of the ongoing debate on the effects of innovation in employment.

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Workforce education diversity, work organization and innovation propensity

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Bianchi

2020

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“…As the second main motivator, job opportunities can present a win-win situation for seekers and solvers. The winning solver receives technical and financial support, while, for the seeker, using innovation challenges as a method of recruiting talent has proven to be highly successful [41]. Rewards of opportunity are relatively common on InnoCentive.com, Ideaconnection.com, and Datacon.com.…”

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On the Cybernetics of Crowdsourcing Innovation: A Process Model

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For SMEs and large enterprises alike, crowdsourcing innovation has become an important element of a product's whole life cycle. Innovation crowdsourcing is the open call process of soliciting consumers to harvest and evaluate ideas or other intellectual assets. The previous proposed taxonomic framework for charactering this process is mainly for general crowdsourcing process. However, currently, our understanding of the processes surrounding crowdsourced innovation is limited. It is from induction of existing cases, lack of systematic analysis framework, and there are no generally-accepted mechanisms for determining which designs of process are optimal. To deduce from the innovation goal-oriented control system, this paper presents a general conceptual model of the processes involved in crowdsourcing innovation through a normative study. Adopting a cybernetic perspective, the model involves five systemic characteristics that guarantee ongoing efficiency for the innovation process. Each of characteristic was abstracted from the general principles of control systems. In theory, the model provides a knowledgeoriented framework through which we can begin to understand the control and efficiency dynamics that govern crowdsourcing innovation. In practice, the model guides managers through the design criteria needed to implement a success crowdsourcing process. The case study shows how the framework illustrates the strengths and weaknesses of several well-known open-call innovation contests/platforms from a design perspective.

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“…According to Cucculelli et al (2016) , firms’ production and technological competence propel innovative items to commercial success in these marketplaces. Studies on innovation also show that exposure to sources of technical opportunity and technological expertise are essential components of successful product developments ( Segarra-Ciprés and Bou-Llusar, 2018 ; Bello-Pintado and Bianchi, 2020 ). The extant study emphasizes how skills and information gained from R&D may influence the design of innovations and their successful commercialization ( Guo et al, 2016 ).…”

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Analyzing the mechanism of strategic orientation towards digitization and organizational performance settings enduring employee resistance to innovation and performance capabilities

Wang

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Resistance to innovation is a behavioral barrier to implementing innovation in any organization. It is associated with employees’ demotivation to adopt new technologies. Strategic orientation toward digitalization is a new dimension in shaping innovative organizational performance. It is also evident from past studies that certain employees’ capabilities are associated with organizations’ strategic orientation when undergoing digitalization. This study examines the relationship between these factors and achieving innovative organizational performance. First, it looks at how strategic orientation toward digitalization relates to digital capabilities, which include digital knowledge and innovation. This study also examines how capabilities affect strategic orientation toward digitalization and innovative organizational performance. Moreover, the negatively regulating role of resistance to innovation as a moderator is also tested between capabilities and innovative organizational performance in this research. The authors discovered a connection between strategic orientation towards digitalization and innovative organizational performance in their research. A Likert scale with five points was used to quantify the responses, and the points ranged from 1 to 5 on the scale, with one being strongly disagreed and five strongly agreed. The findings of the study also show that digital knowledge capability and innovation capability have a substantial impact on innovative organizational performance. The research also discovered that employees’ resistance to innovation exerts a sizeable moderating influence on the connection between digital knowledge competence and innovation capability within the innovative organizational performance. The study’s results show that businesses must have a strategic focus on digitalization if they want to improve their ability to come up with new ideas and their digital knowledge skills, which are both critical for the growth of the entrepreneurial system. The model that has been proposed is available to entrepreneurs so that they can apply it in their businesses to advance the entrepreneurial system appropriately. The authors present a theoretical model for entrepreneurial systems based on the strategic orientation towards the digitalization approach. This model is something that entrepreneurs could utilize to improve the performance of their organizations as a whole. In addition, the employee’s resistance to innovation is used as a moderator in the model, which is another innovative method. The research contributes new and essential information to the existing literature on innovative organizational performance.

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Consequences of open innovation: effects on skill-driven recruitment

Cited by 19 publications

References 90 publications

Workforce education diversity, work organization and innovation propensity

Workforce education diversity, work organization and innovation propensity

On the Cybernetics of Crowdsourcing Innovation: A Process Model

Analyzing the mechanism of strategic orientation towards digitization and organizational performance settings enduring employee resistance to innovation and performance capabilities

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