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DrAnneter Wal

Business School

Associate Professor of Technology & Innovation Management
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 1460a.terwal Website CV

 
 
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272Business School BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Salter:2015:10.1111/jpim.12214,
author = {Salter, A and Ter, Wal AJL and Criscuolo, P and Alexy, O},
doi = {10.1111/jpim.12214},
journal = {The Journal of Product Innovation Management},
pages = {488--504},
title = {Open for ideation: Individual-level openness and idea generation in R&D},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpim.12214},
volume = {32},
year = {2015}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Organizations are increasingly encouraging their scientists and engineers to source knowledge externally. However, it is unclear how the openness of individuals to external sources of knowledge affects their ideation performance, that is, their ability to develop new, useful innovative ideas for their organization, and which factors might moderate this process. Drawing on theories of combinatorial search, and using a sample of 329 R&D scientists and engineers working in a large organization, we demonstrate that individuals' openness to external sources of knowledge is curvilinearly related to their ideation performance. Openness provides benefits such as alertness and variety which contribute to ideation up to the point where increasing integration and approval costs cause negative returns to set in. We also examine how the R&D time horizon, ties to senior managers, and the breadth of individual knowledge moderate the costs and benefits of openness to individuals. We explore the implications of these findings for managerial practice.
AU  - Salter,A
AU  - Ter,Wal AJL
AU  - Criscuolo,P
AU  - Alexy,O
DO  - 10.1111/jpim.12214
EP  - 504
PY  - 2015///
SN  - 0737-6782
SP  - 488
TI  - Open for ideation: Individual-level openness and idea generation in R&D
T2  - The Journal of Product Innovation Management
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpim.12214
UR  - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpim.12214/pdf
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/15631
VL  - 32
ER  -
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