This study addresses the role of national culture in shaping hackathon teams' ideation outcomes. Drawing on the innovation and creativity literature and Schwartz’ theory of cultural value orientations, we propose that hierarchical values decrease the quality of ideas that teams develop over...

According to the silo mentality theory, companies are reluctant to share data between organizations. This study explores the reasons for this corporate behavior. To gain empirical insights, we conducted 42 semi‐structured interviews with the chief executive officers (CEOs) of German small‐...

Innovation ecosystems (IE) are increasingly regarded as important vehicles for creating value from complex value propositions and addressing grand challenges through the development of a circular economy (CE). While current research emphasizes that inter‐organizational relationships can...

Managing big data benefits organizations via efficient and effective data‐driven decision making, productivity gains, customization potential, or innovation opportunities. Data‐driven innovation opportunities are particularly valuable in open value creation (OVC), that is, the collaboration...

Innovation usually requires time‐consuming exploratory approaches. However, external shocks and related crises, such as the COVID‐19 pandemic, lead to severe time pressures, which require short‐term R&D results. We investigate how organizations' prior collaboration and existing knowledge...

Idea screening is crucial as it must select the most promising ideas that are best suited to increase front‐end success. Although paradox theory indicates that learning tensions characterize the evaluation and screening of idea creativity, we know little about how idea screeners navigate...

While innovative work behavior sets the stage for organizational innovativeness, little is known about how innovative work behavior is related to business model innovation. This study analyzes how employees' innovative work behavior leads to business model innovation. Following the...

Using social media is high on the list of priorities for many firms looking to enhance their innovation performance in the different phases of the new product development (NPD) process. Mirroring this rising practical importance of using social media for NPD, scholars have presented a diverse...

Innovation shocks combine technology and market disruptions. They can lead to a complete overhaul of an industry. Building on prior work on firm‐level responses to technological uncertainty, we propose and explore a model to explain R&D behavior under uncertainty. We theorize that industry...

Researchers have identified selective revealing, that is, the voluntary, purposeful, and irrevocable disclosure of information to third parties, as a mechanism in ecosystem building. However, there is a lack of understanding of the ecosystem‐level factors that drive managers' decisions to...