Business-to-business open innovation: COVID-19 lessons for small and medium-sized enterprises from emerging markets
Summary. SMEs in emerging markets adopted open innovation strategies during COVID-19, forming new collaborations with customers and competitors despite resource constraints. Research in Bosnia and Herzegovina shows these firms shifted from traditional competitive practices toward collaborative partnerships to develop innovations during crisis. The paper provides recommendations for managers on managing openness in emerging market SMEs.
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Marković, S., Koporčić, N., Arslanagić-Kalajdžić, M., Kadić‐Maglajlić, S., Bagherzadeh, M., & Islam, N.. (2021). Business-to-business open innovation: COVID-19 lessons for small and medium-sized enterprises from emerging markets. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120883
Marković, Stefan, et al. “Business-to-business open innovation: COVID-19 lessons for small and medium-sized enterprises from emerging markets.” Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120883.
Marković, Stefan, Nikolina Koporčić, Maja Arslanagić-Kalajdžić, Selma Kadić‐Maglajlić, Mehdi Bagherzadeh, and Nazrul Islam. 2021. “Business-to-business open innovation: COVID-19 lessons for small and medium-sized enterprises from emerging markets.” Technological Forecasting and Social Change. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120883.
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Details
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120883
- Countries
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Categories
- entrepreneurship, innovation-networks, regional-innovation-systems, general-innovation
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- 2026-04-28