Abstract
The “knowledge governance approach” is characterized as an emerging approach that cuts across the fields of knowledge management within open innovation and adjusts mutual behavior that parties taking participate in open innovation to be expected. The paper proposed that knowledge governance approach is positively related to open innovation, and then the research has explored the antecedent factors and working mechanism of knowledge governance within open innovation based on Grounded Theory. By way of literature analysis and qualitative research (deeply discussion numbered 27), the paper has derived four dimension of knowledge governance (knowledge property, knowledge activity parties, the exogenous and endogenous context of knowledge activity) and the categories of each dimension. The paper has considered that the knowledge governance is formed by the interplay between interactive value creation process at the knowledge property-level and cooperation unity achieving process at the knowledge activity parties-level. We develop two theoretical models, while one is for explaining the antecedent factors of knowledge governance within open innovation, the other is for explaining the mediating role of knowledge governance in the relationship between knowledge property and knowledge activity parties level antecedents. The paper has strengthened the function of quantitative research, and will be helpful in open innovation theory and practice.
Highlights
The paper proposed that knowledge governance approach is positively related to open innovation, and the research has explored the antecedent factors and working mechanism of knowledge governance within open innovation based on Grounded Theory
We develop two theoretical models, while one is for explaining the antecedent factors of knowledge governance within open innovation, the other is for explaining the mediating role of knowledge governance in the relationship between knowledge property and knowledge activity parties level antecedents
In this paper we argue that how valuable knowledge is successfully shared and opportunism is avoided, the specific focus must be devoted to the role of knowledge governance, proposed by Foss (2006), to examine how knowledge transactions which differ in their characteristics and ISSN 1833-3850 E-ISSN 1833-8119 www.ccsenet.org/ijbm governance mechanisms which differ with respect to how it handles transactional problems are matched for behavior adjusting and reshaping
Summary
Our main contention is that some of the core mechanisms fostering successful open innovation may be interactive value creation held by knowledge property factors, while other incentives of achieving unity may be knowledge activity parties’ hold. We eventually concluded two main paths influencing knowledge’s transferring degree within the open innovation: one is the interactive value creation process with knowledge property as its core.
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