shara aghajanian

The open innovation approach has its challenges, and opportunities. open innovation project managers must be able to manage their projects by confronting the challenges and exploiting opportunities in the new paradigm. In this study, we aim to identify and conceptualize the capabilities required for project managers to succeed in the new approach.

We develop a qualitative research study, utilizing thematic analysis to derive the capabilities of the project managers for open innovation project success in ICT companies of developed countries. We have applied specific criteria to the 505 elite in LinkedIn by utilizing the theoretical sampling. Finally, we conducted 18 semi-structured interviews with open innovation project managers and the conceptual framework of project manager's capabilities is derived and the relationship between concepts and thems are explained.

Capabilities frameworks include the themes of communication management, stakeholder management, human resource management, risk management, scope management, and innovation management.

Our research shows that the capabilities of open innovation project managers are significantly different from traditional frameworks. Innovation management is one of the capabilities of open innovation project managers in this research that has not been addressed before. Stakeholder management is also important as a theme addressed by all participants.

Controlling the complexities of the open innovation projects and exploiting their potential requires development of new processes and capabilities. In this research, a model for managing open innovation projects has been developed by exploring experiences at the level of open innovation projects. The approach of this research is exploratory-qualitative using thematic analysis method. Accordingly, 18 open innovation project managers in the information and communications sector focusing on market-oriented projects have been interviewed. The research findings introduce the main themes of communications management, scope management, stakeholder network management, and human resource management as the areas of interest in the literature and provide new frameworks to know how they should be implemented. Furthermore, this study recognizes the main themes of agile methodology, knowledge management, and specifically technology and innovation management as the areas in the literature which have not been well addressed and have not been studied at the project level and from the perspective of project management knowledge. Finally, this research proposes a contingency project management approach on how to implement the market-oriented projects by assessing the complexity of open innovation projects.

Recently, many studies have been conducted in the open innovation context at the enterprise level to maximize the benefits and to control the challenges. Open innovation portfolio management studies are needed to bring integration between project and firm level. However, there is a few researches at project and portfolio level. This paper used previous theoretical foundations and a multiple case study method at ten ICT companies, utilizing a qualitative content analysis approach to analyze 23 semi-structured interviews and to derive a qualitative conceptual framework for open innovation portfolio management. The research findings are presented in five main categories including: strategic management in open innovation portfolio management; culture management in open innovation portfolio management; process management in open innovation portfolio management; stakeholder management in open innovation portfolio management and technology management in open innovation portfolio management. In this study, the area of technology management as a finding that has not been addressed in the literature and also the concept of charismatic management in the area of cultural management, the concepts of knowledge management, integrated market management and processes of the R&D unit for the area of process management can be categorized as less mentioned concepts in the literature.

Given the slogan for Iranian years 1397 and 1398 “supports the national production” and “production boom”, the impact of Iranian consumers buying behavior in their country’s economy has become an important issue. In this research, the Hacoupian Clothing Corporation has been selected as our case study to investigate this issue in the Iranian apparel industry. First, the effective variables and factors in changing the consumer buying behavior are identified by exploratory factor analysis method. Second, the impact of these variables and factors are analyzed on the Iranian apparel consumption by confirmatory factor analysis method and finally, a comprehensive model is presented to promote Iranian domestic consumption. Research findings reveal five prioritized effective factors that are changing consumer buying behavior toward Iranian apparel consumption. These factors are: 1. identity factors, 2. product differentiation, 3. consumer orientation, 4. marketing techniques, and 5. consumer relationship channels.