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1、Exploringopensearchstrategiesandperceivedinnovationperformancefromtheperspectiveofinter-organizationalknowledgeflowsYun-HwaChiangandKuang-PengHungDepartmentofBusinessAdministration,MingChuanUniversity,250,Sec.5,ChungShanN.Rd.,Taipei111,Taiwan,ROC.hui3789@yah

2、oo.com.tw;kphung@mcu.edu.twBasedontheoriesofinter-organizationalknowledgeflowsandorganizationallearning,wearguethatintensivelyaccessingknowledgefromalimitednumberofexternalchannels,i.e.,opensearchdepth,canfacilitatetheinnovatingcompany’sincrementalinnovation

3、perfor-mance.Wealsoarguethataccessingknowledgefromabroadrangeofexternalchannels,i.e.,opensearchbreadth,canenhancetheinnovatingfirm’sradicalinnovationperformance.Usinghierarchicalregressionstoanalyzesurveydatacollectedfrom184Taiwaneseelectronicproductmanufact

4、urers,wefoundthatopensearchdepthispositivelyrelatedtotheinnovatingfirm’sincrementalinnovationperformance,andthatopensearchbreadthispositivelyrelatedtoradicalinnovationperformance.Asourresultsdifferfromthoseofpreviousstudies,weprovideapossibleexplanationforth

5、ediscrepancy.Examiningtheeffectofopensearchstrategyfromatheoreticalanglenotyetexploredbefore,ourfindingscancontributetobothscholarlyandpractitionerknowledgeofopeninnovation.1.IntroductionOntheotherhand,‘knowledgeflow’referstotheexchangeoftechnologicalandmarke

6、tknowl-Innovationperformanceiscriticaltofirms’suc-edgewithinandacrossorganizationalboundariescessandsurvival(Gassmann,2006).Chesbrough(ArgoteandIngram,2000).Becausethisstudy(2003)arguesthattheinnovatingcompanyshouldinvestigatesopensearchstrategies,wediscussa

7、ctivelyaccessandintegrateexternalknowledgeonlytheinnovatingfirm’saccessingofknowledgewithitsowninnovationprocesstocreatevaluefromexternalchannels.Previousauthorshaveforcustomers.Chesbrough’sargumentstimulatedexploredtheeffectofopensearchstrategiesusingresear

8、chers’interestininvestigatinghowthediffer-thetheoryofproductlifecycle(LaursenandentwaysinwhichaninnovatingfirmaccessesSalter,2006).Inthisresearch,weexaminethisknowledgefromexternalchannelsmayaffecttheis