Closing Open Innovation
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2024

The literature on open innovation has documented how companies expand their boundaries to become more open, leaving out how boundaries narrow as open innovation relationships end—the closing of open innovation. We explain how open innovation creates new relationships on multiple levels—among firms, individuals, and technologies. Drawing on open innovation and alliance literature, we discuss how the closing of open innovation entails the dissolution of this web of multiplex relationships. We contribute to innovation and strategy literature by explaining how the closing decision is not simply mirroring the initial decision to open up innovation, partly because of evolving interdependencies at multiple levels (firms, individuals, and technologies). Finally, we discuss how closing open innovation relates to new challenges in terms of attention, agency, long-lived interdependencies, and portfolio management that provide new avenues for future research.

disintegration

innovation strategy

relationship dissolution

tie dissolution

open innovation closure

alliance termination

Författare

Marcus Holgersson

Chalmers, Teknikens ekonomi och organisation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy

Martin Wallin

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH)

Chalmers, Teknikens ekonomi och organisation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy

Henry Chesbrough

University of California at Berkeley

Luiss Guido Carli University

Linus Dahlander

ESMT Berlin

Strategic Management Review

2688-2612 (ISSN) 2688-2639 (eISSN)

Vol. In Press

Drivkrafter

Innovation och entreprenörskap

Ämneskategorier

Företagsekonomi

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