Process innovation drives industrial competitiveness and sustainability but remains elusive
since it requires co-creation and the sharing of idiosyncratic design knowledge in …

Purpose In the wake of the growing popularity of the open innovation approach, leveraging
suppliers as external sources of innovation has attracted increasing interest from scholars …

Visual management (VM) has become an important lean management practice for
continuous improvement and has gained increasing attention from academics and …

Two main arguments are developed in this chapter. First, the chapter tackles the asymmetry
in roles of outside-in and inside-out open innovation (OI) in the literature. Outside-in OI is …

The objective of this paper is to build a conceptual framework to study the relationship
between total quality management (TQM) and organisational innovation. Past and recent …

The knowledge-based view (KBV) theory argues that organisations gain a competitive
advantage by adopting strategies to capitalise on their knowledge resources, eg …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the way companies involved in Open
Innovation Processes (OIPs) routinize the procedure through which they can absorb in …

This paper analyses how the knowledge shared between employees and suppliers within a
private enterprise social network affects process improvement. Data was collected from …

To successfully implement open innovation, it is essential for firms to build close
relationships with external innovators. Although many studies have suggested that relational …

The past decade has seen a multiplication of theory and research on Open Innovation as a
set of practices by which firms bring novel ideas to the market (Chesbrough, 2003; …