RT journal article
T1 Joint forces: Towards an integration of intellectual capital theory and the open innovation paradigm
A1 Barrena Martínez, Jesús
A1 Cricelli, Livio
A1 Ferrándiz León, Esther
A1 Greco, Marco
A1 Grimaldi, Michele
A2 Economía General
A2 Ingeniería Industrial e Ingeniería Civil
A2 Organización de Empresas
K1 intellectual capital
K1 open innovation
K1 innovation performance
K1 human capital
K1 relational capital
K1 structural capital
AB Intellectual capital (IC) is among the most long-lived topics in managerial literature. More recently, the emergence of the open innovation (OI) paradigm has encouraged the understanding that firms should collaborate with other organizations to leverage their own R&D capabilities. We propose that these two streams of managerial literature should join forces since the OI paradigm could be considered an approach to innovation with foundations in relational capital, facilitated by an appropriate level of human and structural capital. Surprisingly, few researchers attempted to put IC and OI into relation. Therefore, this paper has two main goals: providing a theoretical model that synoptically presents how IC and OI overlap and testing the theoretical model by analyzing how firms’ IC affects OI-related performance. We study a sample of 3,744 Spanish firms from the PITEC dataset. We show that the three IC constructs positively affect OI performance. Relational and human capital show diminishing returns on OI performance.
PB Elsevier
SN 0148-2963
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/34594
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/34594
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 08-nov-2026