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E-collaboration in the Automotive Supply Chain: Determinants and Impacts on Performance

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Determinants of Innovative Behaviour

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This chapter explores one specific aspect of the ‘open-innovation’ paradigm (Chesbrough, 2003) by analysing collaborative new-product development (NPD) among business partners involved in one supply chain. By definition, ‘open innovation assumes that useful knowledge is widely distributed, and that even the most capable R&D organization must identify, connect to, and leverage external knowledge sources as a core process in innovation’ (Chesbrough, 2006, p. 2). Implicitly, the open-innovation paradigm therefore implies that interorganizational networks or supply chains play a salient role in the innovation process. However, our common understanding of open-innovation practices remains limited (West et al., 2006, p. 294).

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  1. Delft University of Technology (TUD), Netherlands

    Cees van Beers (associate professor of innovation economics), Alfred Kleinknecht (Professor of Innovation Economics), Roland Ortt (associate professor of technology and R&D management) & Robert Verburg (associate professor of organizational behaviour) (associate professor of innovation economics),  (Professor of Innovation Economics),  (associate professor of technology and R&D management) &  (associate professor of organizational behaviour)

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Lefebvre, E., Lefebvre, L.A., Amarouch, A., Cassivi, L., Hen, G. (2008). E-collaboration in the Automotive Supply Chain: Determinants and Impacts on Performance. In: van Beers, C., Kleinknecht, A., Ortt, R., Verburg, R. (eds) Determinants of Innovative Behaviour. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230285736_8

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