
Nadine RoijakkersOpen University of the Netherlands | OU · Faculty of Beta Sciences
Nadine Roijakkers
Professor of Open Innovation
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To attain global ecological sustainability within the framework of ecological modernization, this study scrutinizes the multifaceted interaction among environmental‐related patent technologies (ERPT), natural resources, energy consumption (both renewable and nonrenewable energy usage) and globalization on the ecological footprint. To assess the nov...
Patient value in hospital care has become increasingly important over the last decade. This paper argues that patient value could be ameliorated by investing in patient agility. Patient agility constitutes the capabilities that enable hospitals to sense the health service needs of their patients and respond to the changing health service demands of...
Purpose
This study explores how open innovation (OI) can be instrumental for entrepreneurs in sensing and seizing entrepreneurial opportunities in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This study also illustrates how OI can help SMEs overcome the liability of smallness.
Design/methodology/approach
This is exploratory research using an inductive, mu...
Purpose
While extant literature has advanced our understanding of senior and middle managers in corporate entrepreneurship, studies have only recently attended to the role of non-managerial employees (NMEs). These organizational members bring ideas, resources and energy to the pursuit of innovative opportunities, yet the determinants of their entre...
Within the expanding literature on the interplay of corporate governance and corporate environmental behavior, this study introspects the contrastingly reported relationship between board gender diversity (BGD) and Corporate Environmental Commitment (CEC). It empirically explores the moderating effect of coercive (regulation stringency), normative...
The ecosystem concept has gained considerable attention over the past years in the management, innovation, entrepreneurship, and information systems literature as well as in practice. In this process, the traditional R&D and innovation paradigm has changed from closed innovation, which relies on internal sources, to a combination of both internal a...
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This study analyzes how family firms, acting as ecosystem orchestrators, mitigate perceived relational and performance risk via the use of governance mechanisms. Using data from a Belgian family firm that initiated an ecosystem in healthcare, the study shows that in a family firm-led ecosystem, formal and informal governance m...
The current research investigates the interplay of board gender diversity (BGD), the quality of corporate social responsibility disclosure (CSRD), and the green innovation performance (GIP) of a firm. It examines the moderation effect of the CSRD on the relationship between corporate GIP and BGD. The study inculcates 3,736 firm-year observations of...
In the past few years, we have witnessed a reinvigorated interest by academics, practitioners and policymakers in the ecosystem concept. Recent reviews have set out to clarify the conceptual boundaries between ecosystem concepts. Yet there is still a lack of clarity when it comes to which ecosystem types can best help organisations achieve various...
This study investigated the relationship between executive turnover (ET) and quality of corporate social responsibility disclosure (CSRD) at the firm level. The role of political embeddedness (PE) in the association between ET and CSRD quality in Chinese listed A-share firms is also inspected. We employed 20,850 firm’s/year observations between 201...
Within the strategic alliance and the open innovation (OI) literature, it is acknowledged that trust leads to more effective collaborative behavior among individuals, groups, and organizations. Notwithstanding, little attention has been paid so far as to what managers can do in order to enhance the likelihood of building trust with partners. In thi...
Smart cities use integrated information and communication technology in order to help their citizens and organizations deal with the challenges of urbanization, safety, and sustainability. Smart cities need complex forms of governance involving a great variety of actors. The aim of this study is to illustrate how elements of governance structures i...
This study explores how organizations in innovation ecosystems co-create and capture value and what types of challenges they face in creating and capturing value. Based on a multiple case study, the authors show that organizations in nano-electronics establish innovation ecosystems to access not only knowledge and technology, but also other complem...
Mechanisms that large organizations employ to facilitate corporate social responsibility (CSR) engagement simply do not apply to start-ups due to distinct differences. The purpose of this study was to gain insight into how start-ups strive for sustainability in their business models by investigating internal and external drivers related to organiza...
Open Innovation (OI) is an approach which describes a purposive attempt to draw together knowledge from different contributors to develop and exploit innovation. It has become clear that OI directly benefits organisations' economic performance and resilience, but researchers, practitioners, and policy makers became also convinced that OI might be t...
Open innovation (OI) is an approach which describes a purposive attempt to draw together knowledge from different contributors to develop and exploit innovation. It has become clear that OI directly benefits organisations' economic performance and resilience, but researchers, practitioners, and policy makers became also convinced that OI might be t...
This chapter examines the effectiveness of ecosystem types (e.g., knowledge, business, and innovation, entrepreneurial and service ecosystems) in reaching short-term and long-term innovation objectives. This theoretical research is an explorative study that enables initial research on the relation between different ecosystem types, strategic object...
p>Companies can create value by effectively applying and managing open business models. In order to understand the full potential of open business models, we suggest broadening the concept beyond Chesbrough’s original idea, which is predominantly defined in an open innovation context that limits its full potential to be applied in other contexts. W...
Companies can create value by effectively applying and managing open business models. In order to understand the full potential of open business models, we suggest broadening the concept beyond Chesbrough’s original idea, which is predominantly defined in an open innovation context that limits its full potential to be applied in other contexts. We...
Within the innovation ecosystem literature, scholars have considered governance mechanisms as an important instrument for focal entities to mitigate the risks of opportunistic behaviour. Scholars have not focused yet on how these mechanisms work. In the alliance literature, governance mechanisms have been extensively researched and described. As in...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to propose a typology of institutions enabling or constraining customer centricity and value co-creation in service ecosystems; illustrate the various types of institutions with examples from healthcare; and provide case study evidence on how pharmaceutical companies react to and induce institutional change.
D...
This chapter provides a detailed account of the evolution and internal dynamics (network relationships) at Q-Search, a Dutch ecosystem of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) active in the human resources services industry. More specifically, the chap- ter explores how the personality of the entrepreneurial orchestra- tor reflects upon the SME...
This chapter provides a systematic review of the open innovation
(OI) research carried out within the context of small and mediumsized
enterprises (SMEs). The chapter should provide an accurate
understanding of current literature about OI in SMEs, and it elaborates
many future research avenues. The recent increase in the
number of publications in t...
Firms need to innovate and develop dynamic capabilities to create a sustainable competitive advantage. Due to this pressure, firms in high-tech industries invest a high percentage of their revenues in innovation. Despite the vast number of innovation success stories, only one in five innovation projects reach the market. It is important to understa...
This chapter provides a detailed account of the evolution and internal dynamics (network relationships) at Q-Search, a Dutch ecosystem of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) active in the human resources services industry. More specifically, the chapter explores how the personality of the entrepreneurial orchestrator reflects upon the SME eco...
The concept of open innovation (OI) has become a very popular topic during the last decade, with increasing number of SMEs embracing OI practices to gain competitive advantage. This edited volume is a timely opportunity to gather research on OI in SMEs, to investigate how OI is managed and implemented to determine the peculiarities compared to OI m...
Firms need to innovate and develop dynamic capabilities to create a sustainable competitive advantage. Due to this pressure, firms in high-tech industries invest a high percentage of their revenues in innovation. Despite the vast amount of available innovation success stories, only one in five innovation projects will ever reach the market. It is i...
Four cases of open innovation in private family SMEs in low- and medium-technology industries are considered in order to examine the ways in which family firms can both foster their willingness and use their ability to engage in open innovation activities. Our cases illustrate how family SMEs can successfully engage in open innovation by handling m...
Traditionally, healthcare providers – including pharmaceutical companies – have viewed patients as passive recipients of complex healthcare services. Recently, however, the industry’s shift from product centricity to patient centricity is challenging this rationale. Viewed through a service- dominant logic/ service ecosystems lens, patients become...
How do human resource practices strengthen open innovation (OI) activities? This inductive study of six cases leads to propositions exploring this question, which has not been empirically investigated yet. We investigate the relation between human resource practices and an employee’s willingness to embrace OI in six cases that include the perspecti...
As companies mature in their alliance management approaches, collaboration follows suit. From classic strategic alliances to contemporary self-adjusting ecosystems, collaboration today is increasingly characterized by a large number and diversity of partners, long time horizons, joint strategy development based on shared visions, the pursuit of com...
Companies that are experienced in open innovation integrate open 7 innovation activities as part of their strategy. By contrast, open innovation research 8 has not been adequately integrated into the strategy literature and vice versa. In this 9 chapter, we discuss a number of existing strategy fields that offer inroads to connect 10 open innovatio...
Companies that are experienced in open innovation integrate open innovation activities as part of their strategy. By contrast, open innovation research has not been adequately integrated into the strategy literature and vice versa. In this chapter, we discuss a number of existing strategy fields that offer inroads to connect open innovation to stra...
Over the past years researchers have paid attention to alliance capability building as a success factor in alliance management. Research identified alli- ance tools that increase alliance success rates (Draulans, De Man, & Volberda, 2003; Dyer, Kale, & Singh, 2001; Heimeriks & Duysters, 2007) and showed the role of experience in alliance learning (...
This article considers the evolution of interfirm networks within a context of technological change. More specifically, it studies the evolution of structural and positional embeddedness in a network of technology-based alliances when it moves from an early period of invention creation to a subsequent period of new product development and commercia...
In response to calls in the Open Innovation (OI) literature, this paper aims to create a better understanding of the role of OI practices in the innovation efforts of Small-and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) located in Hungary and Romania. Specifically, the paper analyses the role of OI in these small firms' new product/service development efforts...
In the past 10 years, numerous interesting articles, book chapters, and books have been written on open innovation strategies in mainly large companies. While closed innovation models have resulted in important breakthrough innovations, many large companies have abandoned vertical integration strategies in recent years and have moved toward a combi...
In the past decades, the alliance literature has paid significant attention to the biotechnological revolution and the role strategic alliances, most notably R&D partnerships between large pharmaceutical companies and small biotechnological firms, have played in bringing about this transition. As the initial hype faded and venture capitalists pulle...
This chapter aims to show what actions innovating companies can take to increase value when they make use of intermediated OI services in differ- ent phases of their external knowledge searching and hence improve their chances of ultimately establishing a successful tech-transfer agreement with a solution provider.
The purpose of this chapter is to describe some of the implementation challenges related to practicing open innovation (OI) through R&D partnerships with different types of partners and ways for companies to successfully deal with these challenges internally. OI has been a hot item in both academic publications and the popular literature in the pas...
In the past 10 years, numerous interesting articles, book chapters, and books have been written on open innovation strategies in mainly large companies. While closed innovation models have resulted in important breakthrough innovations, many large companies have abandoned vertical integration strategies in recent years and have moved toward a combi...
In explaining variation in innovative performance of firms the resourcebased view of the firm draws on the concept of firm heterogeneity. We contribute to this stream of research by introducing technology in-licensing as a learning mechanism and by highlighting the joint effect of five aspects of firm heterogeneity. Moreover, we provide empirical e...
The purpose of this chapter is to describe some of the implementation challenges related to practicing open innovation (OI) through R&D partnerships with different types of partners and ways for companies to successfully deal with these challenges internally. OI has been a hot item in both academic publications and the popular literature in the pas...
Companies increasingly organize innovation activities within innovation ecosystems. This study illustrates the central role of the IP-model that an orchestrator develops for the innovation ecosystem partners. The governance of IP is instrumental for the success of innovation ecosystems as it determines the value appropriation potential for the ecos...
Few studies on open innovation (OI) have addressed OI practices in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and how their use of OI and resulting benefits differ from large enterprises. The lack of resources in SMEs to engage in looking outward is said to be a barrier to OI, but at the same time this shortage is cited as a motive for looking beyon...
There is a wealth of research on technological learning in developing countries,
but few scholars have clearly addressed the issue of learning time in an empirical way. This
paper aims to fill this void by presenting an empirical investigation of the time needed by
Chinese firms to learn from the technologies that they have in-licensed. Furthermore...
This paper explores how interfirm variations in their in-licensed technology portfolios influence subsequent innovation performance. Existing studies mainly assume licensed technologies are homogeneously accessible to firms, and a prevailing explanation as to why firms vary in their innovation performance lies in differences of absorptive capacity....
In this chapter, we first argue that open innovation can be applied to situations where companies do not themselves develop new products or services. As a consequence, open innovation becomes relevant for a much larger group of organisations than hitherto. Second, we argue that open innovation scholars have failed to sufficiently differentiate open...
Few studies on open innovation (OI)
address OI practices in small and medium-sized
enterprises (SMEs) and how their use of OI and the
resulting benefits differ from those of large enterprises.
The lack of resources in SMEs to engage in
looking outward is said to be a barrier to OI, but at the
same time this shortage is cited as a motive for
looking...
China became the second-largest economy behind the USA in 2010. While there is quite some macroeconomic research documenting the technological catching-up of China as a nation, there is only little research studying how individual Chinese firms are catching up. This paper draws on the open innovation perspective to explore how Chinese firms improve...
Dankzij digitalisering en liberalisering ontstaat convergentie tussen
voorheen gescheiden sectoren. Deze convergentie kan organisatorisch onder meer
gerealiseerd worden door het gebruik van allianties. Dit artikel onderzoekt hoe een
bepaald type convergentie wordt gerealiseerd met behulp van verschillende allianties.
Wij concluderen dat allianties...
This paper primarily intends to broaden the scope of open
innovation (OI) by connecting this concept to the literature on national systems of innovation (NSI). The main assumption behind this paper is that OI entails new types of governance structures that enable companies to tap into widely
distributed knowledge bases through rapidly proliferating...
This paper investigates the impact of open innovation on national systems of innovation. The open innovation concept has become widely established among scholars and practitioners following publication of the seminal work by Chesbrough (2003). However, an overview of its impact on national innovation systems is still lacking. Given that the innovat...
China became the second-largest economy behind the United States in 2010. While there is quite some evidence for the technological catching-up of China on the macroeconomic level, there is only scant evidence on the firm level showing how Chinese firms are catching up. This paper draws on the open innovation perspective to explore how Chinese firms...
This paper examines the speed and its determinants of technological learning of licensing firms in developing countries. There is a wealth of research on technological learning in developing countries, but few scholars have clearly addressed the issue learning time in an empirical way. This paper is to fill this void by an empirical investigation o...
Firm heterogeneity lies at the heart of the resource-based view of the firm in explaining a firm’s innovation success. However, these studies focus on one or two limited perspectives of heterogeneity and more or less neglect the different learning mechanisms by which heterogeneous resources contribute to firms’ success in innovation. In this study,...
Het aantal allianties neemt nog steeds toe. Omdat bij allianties meerdere partners betrokken zijn, doet de vraag zich voor hoe allianties te besturen zijn. Deze vraag wordt beantwoord door van drie allianties de besturingsvorm te bestuderen. Deze allianties zijn de KLM-Northwest-alliantie, de Prominent-alliantie en het Future Store Initiative van d...
Over the past years researchers have paid attention to alliance capability building as a success factor in alliance management. Research identified alli- ance tools that increase alliance success rates (Draulans, De Man, & Volberda, 2003; Dyer, Kale, & Singh, 2001; Heimeriks & Duysters, 2007) and showed the role of experience in alliance learning (...
As alliances are mainly used in dynamic industries, extant theory assumes that
alliance governance structures undergo frequent changes. This article aims to show, however,
that some governance structures are more robust in dealing with internal and external
dynamics than others. We develop propositions about the characteristics that need to
be buil...
This paper presents an analysis of some major historical trends in inter-firm R&D partnering in the international software industry during the period 1970-1999. Our research demonstrates an overall growth pattern of newly made R&D partnerships and reveals the important role played by leading firms. We also examine the emergence of various R&D netwo...
When designing an alliance governance structure, managers have to choose between approaches based on control or on trust. This article proposes a framework to help managers decide which of the two is appropriate in a particular situation. The debate in the literature on control and trust centres on two issues: first, on the question of whether cont...
This paper analyses the role of inter-organisational trust in pharmaceutical biotechnology, an industry characterised by a strong dual market structure. Our main finding is that repeated ties in pairs of large pharmaceutical companies and small, entrepreneurial biotechnology firms, which indicate inter-organisational trust, have a negative effect o...
This chapter studies the role played by small entrepreneurial firms and large companies in the international biotechnology industry. The biotechnology industry is one of the main examples of current industries that are characterized by "hypercompetition", with a high degree of uncertainty about the combined effects of both new technologies and new...
Nadine Roijakkers is assistant professor at the Faculty of Technology Management, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. Among her research interests are innovation, alliances, and networks, and she has published articles on these topics in Research Policy and the British Journal of Management.
We examine the role of different network capabilities of companies that influence the formation of R&D partnerships in pharmaceutical biotechnology. Strategic network capabilities, specifically centrality-based capabilities and the efficiency with which companies choose their partners, are found to facilitate the formation of new partnerships. Unli...
This paper analyses a large, longitudinal database on inter-firm R&D partnerships formed in the high-tech pharmaceutical biotechnology industry since 1975. Our research indicates an overall growth in the number of annually, newly established R&D partnerships where research partners consistently prefer contractual partnerships to equity-based allian...
This paper analyses the role of repeated ties in the high-tech pharmaceutical biotechnology industry, a sector that is characterized by a strong dual market structure. Our most important finding is that previous ties in pairs of large pharmaceutical companies and small biotechnology firms have a negative effect on their subsequent partnering. An ex...
In this study we investigate whether the process of Attraction, Selection and Attrition as described by Schneider (1987) is already operative prior to labor market entry, i.e., in the educational phase of careers. We focused on selection with regard to the locus of control personality trait because of its firm conceptual and empirical relevance in...
In this study we investigate whether the process of Attraction, Selection and Attrition as described by Schneider (1987) is already operative prior to labor market entry, i.e., in the educational phase of careers. We focused on selection with regard to the locus of control personality trait because of its firm conceptual and empirical relevance in...
In this study we investigate whether the process of Attraction Selection and Attrition as described by Schneider (1984) is already operative prior to labor market entry, i.e., in the educational phase of careers. We focused on selection with regard to the locus of control personality trait because of its firm conceptual and empirical relevance in b...