<title>Abstract</title> This article provides a review and synthesis of the extant literature on dynamic capabilities in public organizations. Although this theoretical perspective holds potential to enhance our limited understanding of how public organizations change in response to their increasingly...

<title>Abstract</title> In order to meet the needs of their multiple stakeholders, public sector organizations are increasingly asked to improve the efficiency and quality of their services. With this respect, the implementation of innovations has been advocated as a means to accomplish this challenging task....

The following sections are included: <ul><li class="bullet">Introduction</li></ul> <ul><li class="bullet">Conceptual Background and Hypotheses <ul><li class="bullet"> Theoretical foundations</li><li class="bullet"> The promise of open innovation</li><li class="bullet"> The moderating role of innovation management <ul><li class="bullet"> Research capacity</li><li class="bullet"> Incentive system</li><li class="bullet"> Cross-functional collaboration</li></ul> <p></li></ul> <p></li></ul> <ul><li class="bullet">Methods <ul><li class="bullet"> Setting and data</li><li class="bullet"> Measures <ul><li class="bullet">...</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></p></p>

In this paper, we develop and test a firm-level contingency model of inbound open innovation in an attempt to contribute to explaining the substantial disparities in open innovation payoff that exist between firms. Integrating elements from the resource- and knowledge-based views and the...

This article explores the temporal trajectories of innovative search. Drawing on conceptual ideas from the behavioural theory of the firm, it proposes that the level of temporal persistence in organisations’ innovative search activities is affected by four key factors. These include (i) the...