Contextualising the role of external partnerships to innovate the core and enabling processes of an organisation: A resource and knowledge-based view

Fernandes, Kiran Jude; Milewski, Simon; Chaudhuri, Atanu; Xiong, Yu

doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.01.091

Contextualising the role of external partnerships to innovate the core and enabling processes of an organisation: A resource and knowledge-based view

Fernandes, Kiran Jude; Milewski, Simon; Chaudhuri, Atanu; Xiong, Yu

Authors

Professor Kiran Fernandes k.j.fernandes@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Simon Milewski

Professor Atanu Chaudhuri atanu.chaudhuri@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Yu Xiong

Abstract

The knowledge-based view (KBV) theory argues that organisations gain a competitive advantage by adopting strategies to capitalise on their knowledge resources, e.g., organisational culture, managerial decision-making and innovative new processes. Large organisations partner with external technology suppliers to develop such technology-driven processes. However, within the context of large organisations, there remains a lack of insight into the motivation and structures of how and why large organisations collaborate with external partners to create such technology-driven processes. To explore the identified problem of understanding the collaborating mechanisms that contribute to technology-driven process innovation in large manufacturing organisations, we analyse and develop inductive concepts using multiple data points. Our research illustrates that external technology partners act as a mediating influence in process-innovation projects by contributing to the capabilities or capacity of an organisation.

Citation

Fernandes, K. J., Milewski, S., Chaudhuri, A., & Xiong, Y. (2022). Contextualising the role of external partnerships to innovate the core and enabling processes of an organisation: A resource and knowledge-based view. Journal of Business Research, 144, 146-162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.01.091

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Jan 29, 2022
Online Publication Date	Feb 7, 2022
Publication Date	2022-05
Deposit Date	Jun 1, 2022
Publicly Available Date	Aug 8, 2023
Journal	Journal of Business Research
Print ISSN	0148-2963
Publisher	Elsevier
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	144
Pages	146-162
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.01.091
Public URL	https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1203165

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