The organizational determinants of open innovation: a bibliometric analysis

Ranaei Kordshouli, Habib Allah; Kazemi, Moein; Alimohammadlou, Moslem; Askarifar, Kazem

doi:10.22034/jtd.2025.2035374.1944

The organizational determinants of open innovation: a bibliometric analysis

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Habib Allah Ranaei Kordshouli ¹

moein kazemi ²

Moslem Alimohammadlou ³

kazem askarifar ³

¹ Associate Professor, Department of Management, Faculty of Economics, Management and Social Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.

² Department of Management, Faculty of Economics, Management and Social Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

³ Department of Management, Faculty of Economics, Management and Social Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.

10.22034/jtd.2025.2035374.1944

Abstract

Today, open innovation (OI) has become a competitive advantage for organizations. One of the challenges in using this is determining the organizational determinants for the proper use of OI, therefore, the purpose of this research is to determine organizational determinants for OI based on the APQC framework, and bibliometric analysis was used by descriptive, document co citation and keywords co-occurrences approaches. This research is practical in terms of purpose. The Population is those articles published in the WOS database, which are related to OI and the 13 categories of the APQC and for data analysis, Sitespace, VOS Viewer and Excel were used. Based on the results of the descriptive approach, the trend of publishing researches in the last few years was upward and Research Policy was determined as the most important journal in this field, also the United States was determined to be the most important country and Chesbrough was determined to be the best author. In the co-citation analysis, twelve clusters were determined, of which only one cluster was active, and the knowledge tree map of the researches was drawn, and the burst researches, the most citations, and the centrality were determined. By using co-occurrences analysis, research trends were investigated in three different time periods and in addition to drawing Network diagram of the keyword co-occurrences, up-to-date topics in this field were determined and analyzed in each of the 13 categories of the APQC.

Keywords

Open Innovation

Organizational Determinants

APQC Process Classification Framework

Web of Science

Bibliometric Analysis

Co Citation

Keyword Co-Occurrences

Subjects

Innovation

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