Enterprise Management: Collaboration and Open Innovation
A special issue of Administrative Sciences (ISSN 2076-3387).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2022) | Viewed by 503
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Companies and managers have been suffering from COVID-19 since January 2019. The uncertainty in corporate operations has increased due to COVID-19, and company profits have decreased. In this situation, collaboration and open innovation between companies are essential to ensure continuity of corporate operations and to continuously pursue profits.
Open innovation needs to be viewed from an overall perspective, including searching for external knowledge sources for innovation, utilization in the process of innovation, and related results, distinct from the viewpoint of how much external knowledge sources are utilized. This is why companies need cooperative management and open innovation strategies. Lauren and Salter (2006) first introduced the concepts of search breadth and depth to measure the degree of openness. Breadth means the diversity of partners or activities, and depth means the activity’s intensity. Herstad et al. (2008) expanded this concept from search activities to collaboration, protection, and external innovation, implicating each area and depth, creating an indicator that encompasses all of a company’s open innovation activities.
The goal of this special issue is to help overcome difficulties through cooperation between companies, such as R&D collaboration technology, acquisition, and networking, to solve the difficult challenges firms face in the COVID-19 situation.
Dr. Woohyoung Kim
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- collaboration
- open innovation
- manager
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