Overview
- Renews the current theoretical debate on project-based learning and R&D sourcing
- Provides theoretical and empirical arguments on the advantages of a more fine-grained level of analysis to understand how firms organize their innovation processes across boundaries
- Draws on innovation literature and knowledge-based perspectives to answer key questions in the field
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (5 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Enriching understanding of the current theoretical debate on project-based learning and R&D sourcing, ‘Project-based Knowledge in Organizing Open Innovation’ draws on innovation literature and knowledge-based perspectives to solve open problems in the relationship between knowledge development at project level and how firms organize product innovation combining in-house R&D activities with inbound open innovation.
Through field research in different industrial settings (pharmaceutical, automotive and machine tools) and with complementary methodological approaches, this book provides empirical evidence on how project knowledge features affect sourcing decisions at firm level.
Due to the emerging interest in the management literature on project-based organizations and on the relevance of project forms of organizing in a knowledge-based economy, this volume will appeal to scholars and students in business and management, in particular those in innovation management, organization theory and strategic management.
Addressing the still open issue of how the firm level should be complemented by studies at the project level of analysis, this book provides theoretical and empirical arguments on the advantages of a more fine-grained level of analysis to understand how firms organize their innovation processes across boundaries.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
The authors are management scholars whose main areas of research concern organization design, strategy and innovation management with a specific focus on the issue of organizing open innovation. This volume brings together contributions that aim to stimulate the discussion on a multi-level perspective on open innovation, suggesting that an appropriate level to understand firm sourcing decisions is at the level of innovation projects.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Project-Based Knowledge in Organizing Open Innovation
Editors: Sara Bonesso, Anna Comacchio, Claudio Pizzi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6509-5
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-6508-8Published: 29 July 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-7058-7Published: 03 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-6509-5Published: 10 July 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 99
Topics: Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing, Innovation/Technology Management, R & D/Technology Policy