“…Stakeholder interaction aimed at value co-creation depends on the leadership quality and stakeholder involvement capacity of the network leader, be it the owner or another party (Waligo et al, 2014). Similar to dyadic relations between innovators and end users, relational capabilities appear as a crucial antecedent of value co-creation in a network, especially when paired with enablers such as trust, inclusiveness and openness (Carroll & Helfert, 2015;Kohtamäki, Partanen, & Möller, 2013;Murthy, Padhi, Gupta, & Kapil, 2016;Pera et al, 2016). Relational capabilities play a significant role in enabling organisations to engage in open dialogue with their end users and to develop close relationships with the other stakeholders in the network (Mostafa, 2016;Ramaswamy & Ozcan, 2016), even in asymmetrical relationships in which partners have different sizes and characterisations (Ngugi, Johnsen, & Erdélyi, 2010;Pérez & Cambra-Fierro, 2015).…”