The slides for my talk at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in Philadelphia, PA. The paper is entitled "Is 'Open' Always Better? An Exploration of Open Innovation Projects"
42. data
• sampling frame:!
• high-tech firm directory provided by China Science and Technology
Commission !
• Chinese firms in four industries (chemical and pharmaceutical, electronic and other
electrical equipment, industrial and commercial machinery equipment, fabricated metal and other
material)!
• key informants: !
• managers of R&D department!
• identify a recent completed open innovation project
55. contributions
• theory!
• uncovering both positive and negative impacts of search openness!
• building an IT-enabled absorptive capacity theory in the open
innovation context!
• practice!
• 2-sided effects of openness!
• effective control of inter-firm distance!
• deploying different types IT to reap benefits & alleviate challenges
of open innovation