📯 New Virtual Special Issue (SI) "R&D Management Under Disruption and Uncertainty" out now!
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-9310.management-under-disruption
Guest editors: Daitian Li, Xiaolan Fu, Rajneesh Narula OBE, Max von Zedtwitz, and Beverly Wagner
Editorial for the SI:
"R&D Management under Dispruption and Uncertainty"
https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12747
Commentary (Introductory Essay):
"R&D Management Under Disruption and Uncertainty: An Open Innovation Perspective"
by Henry Chesbrough
https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12748
SI highlights:
✨ With the advent of the fourth industrial revolution, firms are increasingly facing disruptions along multiple dimensions: technological, market, environmental, and institutional
✨ Such disruptions increase the level of uncertainty that firms perceive, bringing about both challenges and opportunities
✨ Seven research articles and one introductory essay (commentary) address different aspects of R&D management under disruption and uncertainty
✨ The SI develops a conceptual framework describing how firms might address different types of disruption and uncertainty through an Open Innovation System approach.
Future research avenues:
🔎 Investigating the impact of various types (e.g., technological, market, environmental, and institutional) of disruption and uncertainty on R&D Management
🔎 Adopting an Open Innovation System approach to address disruption and uncertainty
🔎 Exploring the "Inside-Out Flow", "Outside-In Flow", and "Inside-In Flow" of knowledge and resources in Open Innovation Systems.
Included papers:
"Technological Disruption and Patent Activities: Adoption of Robots by Chinese Manufacturing Firms"
by Peng Zhou, Jing Zhang, Kun Jiang
https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12701
"Are Outliers More Disruptive? Technological Niche, Disruptive Innovation, and Recombinant Capability"
by Guannan Qu, Kaihua Chen, Luyao Wang, Yayu Yang, Ruhao Zhang
https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12685
"Too close for comfort: the pitfall of incumbents' knowledge search during industry evolution"
by Finn Jonas Tryggvason, Ferran Giones
https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12689
"How Focal Firm Navigating Resource Complementarity Uncertainty of Innovation Ecosystem in Emerging Economies"
by Shengxi Yang, Jiaming Yang, Jiang Wei
https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12739
"R&D Investments in Knowledge Intensive Sectors in Developing Countries and the Role of Host Country Political Uncertainty"
by Evis Sinani, Bernhard Dachs, Bersant Hobdari, Marina Papanastassiou
https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12728
"Overseas Institutional Uncertainty and Corporate Innovation-Evidence From an Emerging Economy"
by Xiaoqing (Maggie) Fu, Zhaoyan Liu, Hongjun Xie, Yang Zhang
https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12702
"Toward a Theory of Informal Disruption"
by Tom Neuhauser, Yuliya Snihur
https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12676
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Ioana Stefan
Associate Professor
Mälardalen University
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