{"id":70900,"date":"2025-10-27T18:19:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uol.ac.cy\/?p=70900"},"modified":"2025-10-27T18:19:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:19:37","slug":"collaborating-for-innovation-the-inhibiting-role-of-constraints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uol.ac.cy\/en\/collaborating-for-innovation-the-inhibiting-role-of-constraints\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaborating for innovation: The inhibiting role of constraints"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Abstract: <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a growing recognition that firms increase their collaboration breadth by opening their boundaries to more innovation partners, sourcing and integrating complementary knowledge, skills, and resources and, in turn, improving their innovation performance. However, not all firms benefit equally from collaboration breadth. We argue that the literature has not considered important contingency factors that can mitigate such benefits. This paper enhances understanding of the relationship between collaboration breadth and innovation performance by contending, and empirically confirming, that the magnitude and direction of this association depend on the type of constraints the firm faces. Drawing on organizational learning theory, it is argued that firms encountering financial, knowledge, and institutional innovation constraints will compromise the effects of their openness. The empirical findings suggest that innovative firms face challenges balancing trade-offs between a broad collaboration network and high financial, knowledge, and institutional constraints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Nalmpanti, A. D., Wong, C. Y., &amp; Oghazi, P. (2024). Collaborating for innovation: The inhibiting role of constraints.\u00a0<em>Journal of Innovation &amp; Knowledge<\/em>,\u00a0<em>9<\/em>(3), 100504.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-buttons uagb-buttons__outer-wrap uagb-btn__default-btn uagb-btn-tablet__default-btn uagb-btn-mobile__default-btn uagb-block-00678dd0\"><div class=\"uagb-buttons__wrap uagb-buttons-layout-wrap \">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-buttons-child uagb-buttons__outer-wrap uagb-block-1b17dad2 wp-block-button\"><div class=\"uagb-button__wrapper\"><a class=\"uagb-buttons-repeater wp-block-button__link\" aria-label=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1016%2Fj.jik.2024.100504&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cp.efstathiou%40uol.ac.cy%7C98194246680c440e0ebf08ddcf38e3e5%7Cb5e1322f342e4a7ebb1e78d50e9fd700%7C0%7C0%7C638894565426250981%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=8Evh7IogzN0hTY9vvskPpMndladg5CD7qJ7pU7JZHMk%3D&amp;reserved=0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"button\"><div class=\"uagb-button__link\">learn more<\/div><span class=\"uagb-button__icon uagb-button__icon-position-after\"><svg xmlns=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 448 512\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focussable=\"false\"><path d=\"M438.6 278.6l-160 160C272.4 444.9 264.2 448 256 448s-16.38-3.125-22.62-9.375c-12.5-12.5-12.5-32.75 0-45.25L338.8 288H32C14.33 288 .0016 273.7 .0016 256S14.33 224 32 224h306.8l-105.4-105.4c-12.5-12.5-12.5-32.75 0-45.25s32.75-12.5 45.25 0l160 160C451.1 245.9 451.1 266.1 438.6 278.6z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: There is a growing recognition that firms increase their collaboration breadth by opening their boundaries to more innovation partners, sourcing and integrating complementary knowledge, skills, and resources and, in turn, improving their innovation performance. However, not all firms benefit equally from collaboration breadth. 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