Openness and innovation within organizations : an empirical analysis of the transformation process of romanian enterprises

In this study, the authors examine how societal and industrial sector-specific peculiarities moderate the translation of intra-organizational openness into innovativeness. A sample comprising N = 24 subsystems from privatized Romanian natural gas companies and N = 26 subsystems from privatized Romanian mechanical engineering companies was analyzed. With this study, the authors aim to contribute to answering the question which industrial sectorspecific conditions are conducive to success given the current societal and economic conditions in Romania. The findings indicate that in the mechanical engineering industry, there is a linear connection between opening processes and success, while this relationship is of a curvilinear nature in the natural gas industry.