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Open Innovation in Inter-Organisational Networks in the IT Industry

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Open innovation has been recognised by the IT industry as a novel way to create innovation, where organisations open their innovation processes and cooperate with others to develop new products and services. We study open innovation by looking at another new trend, innovation through customising standard software as a business model. We investigate the open innovation activities of an inter-organisational network which consists of a small customising company, a large global software producer and other involved companies. We integrate formally separate aspects of open innovation and inter-organisational networks, broaden the view from one focal firm to the relations in a network of companies and underline the importance of balanced formal and informal relations, and ‘coopetive’ and opportunistic behaviour for the open innovation process.

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    On request of the parties involved, all company and product names have been anonymised in this chapter.

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  1. Copenhagen Business School, Operations Management, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Karlheinz Kautz

  2. NNIT Management Consulting, Søborg, Denmark

    Sameen M. Rab

  3. Danske Capital, Kgs., Lyngby, Denmark

    Michael Sinnet

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  1. Uppsala University, Uppsala, 751 20, Sweden

    Jenny S. Z. Eriksson Lundström

  2. Department of Informatics, Umeå University, Umeå, 901 87, Sweden

    Mikael Wiberg

  3. Uppsala University, Uppsala, 751 20, Sweden

    Stefan Hrastinski

  4. Uppsala University, Uppsala, 751 20, Sweden

    Mats Edenius

  5. Uppsala University, Uppsala, 751 20, Sweden

    Pär J. Ågerfalk

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Kautz, K., Rab, S.M., Sinnet, M. (2013). Open Innovation in Inter-Organisational Networks in the IT Industry. In: Eriksson Lundström, J., Wiberg, M., Hrastinski, S., Edenius, M., Ågerfalk, P. (eds) Managing Open Innovation Technologies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31650-0_5

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