Open innovation and open strategy: explanation and comparison

Today, the concept of openness has become widespread in organizations, and due to the advent of the Internet and advances in information technology, organizations have shown a special interest in open approaches. One of these open principles in organizations in the field of strategy is known through transparency in strategic processes, which is called open strategy. This article tries to introduce this phenomenon and make a comparison between open innovation and open strategy. The present research is applied in terms of purpose and is of the type of library studies and documentary analysis. The results show that strategy researchers have turned their attention to another example of the expansion and opening up of traditional closed organizational practices, and that is the issue of open strategy. The task of open strategy in the simplest sense is to increase transparency and participation in strategic issues (internal and external stakeholders). In other words, open strategy is a new topic in the field of strategic management, which, according to some theorists, is based on open innovation, although there are similarities and differences. Similar to open innovation, research in open strategy was initially phenomenological, and gradually emerged as an identifiable research stream. However, as a research field, it has developed differently than open innovation. According to the analysis of different angles of two phenomena of open strategy and open innovation, According to the analysis of different angles of two phenomena of open strategy and open innovation, they can be examined and compared from 7 different perspectives. Similarities and key differences from 7 different perspectives, the perspective of philosophical foundations, the perspective of goals, the perspective of relationships, the perspective of theoretical approaches, the perspective of open strategy dimensions, the perspective of openness and openness dimensions, as well as the perspective of activity areas, which are mentioned in detail in the article.