What is it about?
Our research questions are: - What are the dominant characteristics and the main determinants of OI in SMEs? - How do these different elements relate to each other within an integrated conceptual framework? - How have the current trends influencing the conceptualisation of OI in SMEs? - What are the promising avenues for the future development of research on OI in SME?
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Why is it important?
The answers would be helpful in theoretical and practical ways. In academia, they would improve understanding of OI in SMEs and help identify its characteristics and determinants in that specific context. To our knowledge, no systematic review of the literature has brought these different elements together into a framework that could be used to analyse their interconnections and complementarity. We could thus better understand the complex relationships between OI characteristics and OI determinants. Researchers would also have a road map with which they could go further and test whether previous research results can be generalised to different contexts. Finally, our findings would in practice help SME managers and decision-makers make evidence-based recommendations on OI in their organisations.
Perspectives
On a theoretical level, this research explains OI in SMEs by synthesising the relevant literature on the subject. Indeed, while large businesses have gradually adopted OI, less has been known about SMEs in this respect. Our research fills this gap by providing better knowledge of OI characteristics in the specific SME case, as well as the determinants to be taken into account during OI implementation. Also, our proposed conceptual framework for the complex relationships between the characteristics and the identified determinants provides a complete map of research on the subject. By incorporating the interrelationships and interdependence of the OI characteristics with OI determinants, we complete the framework of Battistela et al. (2017), who studied OI practices, tools, and actors. In addition, our results confirm that similar groupings of characteristics and determinants as analysed by Bacon et al. (2019) are essential for OI practice in SMEs. While previous studies investigated the influence of unique characteristics and determinants, this study organises the various components of OI in SME into four influential and interdependent groups. Our research is, therefore, one of the few studies to analyse all of these elements dealing with OI in SMEs.
Professor Sophie Veilleux
Universite Laval
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This page is a summary of: UNDERSTANDING THE SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS AND DETERMINANTS OF OPEN INNOVATION IN SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW, International Journal of Innovation Management, March 2021, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt,
DOI: 10.1142/s1363919621500638.
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