نوع مقاله : پژوهشی
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عنوان مقاله English
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Small internet-based companies often face numerous challenges, including a lack of agility to keep pace with rapid technological changes, insufficient expertise for complex innovation processes, and limited financial capacity to cover the high costs of innovation. Nevertheless, these companies can overcome innovation barriers through strategic collaborations with external stakeholders, thereby reducing time-to-market and optimizing their operational costs. This study, adopting a qualitative Grounded Theory approach, develops a theoretical framework for the successful adoption of open innovation in small internet-based businesses. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with six company founders in Tehran and analyzed using open, axial, and selective coding. The analysis resulted in the identification of 9 main categories and 77 sub-categories that explain the process of open innovation adoption. The findings indicate that factors such as competitive pressure and technological changes act as causal conditions, while managerial awareness, organizational culture, and internal barriers influence the adoption process. Furthermore, access to institutional and technological infrastructure shapes the implementation of open innovation strategies such as external collaboration and knowledge sharing which ultimately lead to outcomes including reduced innovation risk, accelerated innovation cycles, improved access to external knowledge, and enhanced competitive advantage.
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Copyright © Farzad Haghighi-Rad, Amir-Reza Abtahi, Shamim Mazaheri
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