Abstract
The success of open innovation depends on the individuals that stand at the interface of the firm and its external partners. These boundary spanners need to cultivate external search openness by searching broadly and deeply across knowledge sources. This study adopts a temporal perspective to identify search trajectories and systematically analyze the extent to which both external search breadth and depth can be explained by differences within individuals versus differences between individuals. Adopting an attention-based view, we investigate the influence of organizational context and context changes on individual-level search openness trajectories and explore performance implications of such trajectories.
Original language | English |
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Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2020: Understanding the Inclusive Organization, AoM 2020 - Virtual, Online Duration: 7 Aug 2020 → 11 Aug 2020 |
Conference
Conference | 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2020: Understanding the Inclusive Organization, AoM 2020 |
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City | Virtual, Online |
Period | 7/08/20 → 11/08/20 |
Bibliographical note
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