Match and manage: the use of knowledge matching and project management to integrate knowledge in collaborative inbound open innovation | Zendy

Nicolette Lakemond | Zendy; Lars Bengtsson | Zendy; Keld Laursen | Zendy; Fredrik Tell | Zendy

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Match and manage: the use of knowledge matching and project management to integrate knowledge in collaborative inbound open innovation

Author(s) -

Nicolette Lakemond,

Lars Bengtsson,

Keld Laursen,

Fredrik Tell

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

industrial and corporate change

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.511

H-Index - 110

eISSN - 1464-3650

pISSN - 0960-6491

DOI - 10.1093/icc/dtw004

Subject(s) - knowledge management , absorptive capacity , business , matching (statistics) , open innovation , knowledge creation , corporate governance , knowledge value chain , organizational learning , industrial organization , marketing , computer science , downstream (manufacturing) , finance , statistics , mathematics

Despite mounting evidence on the potential benefits of inbound open innovation, little is known about how firms purposefully manage inflows of knowledge. We investigate the use of two knowledge governance procedures—project management and knowledge matching—in collaborative inbound open innovation. Our findings suggest that, in addition to “knowledge-precursors,” which the literature on open innovation and absorptive capacity has shown to be important for the integration of external knowledge, the firm’s choice of knowledge governance matters for innovation performance.Knowledge integration in Open Innovatio

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