Open Innovation and Competitive Advantage: The Roles of Organizational Strategy and Corporate Risk Management

Identifier:  TDX:4012

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX4012

Authors:  Musiello Neto, Francisco Eugênio

Abstract:
This thesis is developed from the premise that the open innovation model enhances the innovative capabilities of firms, influencing corporate risk management, organizational strategy and competitive advantage. The main objective of the study is thus to analyse the relationship of open innovation with corporate risk management, organizational strategy and competitive advantage and, additionally, the mediating effect of corporate risk management on the relationship between open innovation and organizational strategy in this relationship. The theoretical-conceptual framework was elaborated based on the literature review on the subject, from which the construction of the analytical model was derived, from which the research hypotheses of the studies were formulated. The empirical contrasting of these was carried out based on a quantitative methodology, which involved the construction of a questionnaire that was applied, in the form of an online survey, to a sample of 251 firms’ top managers in the hospitality sector in Portugal. The primary data collected were subjected to descriptive