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## Purpose – This study aims to examine how open innovation can be effective in changing organizational inertia to create business model innovation and improve firm performance. It also seeks to explore whether the existence of open innovation has a mediating effect and influence. ## Design/methodology/approach – This study constructs a theoretical model to explore the relationship between latent variables and uses a questionnaire to collect research data. In the conceptual framework, organizational inertia is a second-order latent variable and comprises three first-order latent variables: insight inertia, action inertia, and psychological inertia. Open innovation is also a second-order latent variable, and consists of two first-order latent variables: outbound and inbound open innovation. To clarify the relationship between these latent variables, structural equation modeling (SEM) is used to test the goodness of fit of the theoretical model and research hypotheses. This study uses 141 small to medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) in Taiwan as the research subjects. ## Findings – The SEM analysis revealed that open innovation has a significant mediating effect on the rela

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Author

Hao-Chen Huang; Mei-Chi Lai; Lee-Hsuan Lin; Chien-Tsai Chen

Publisher

Emerald

Published

2013

Language

EN

Field

Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)