Start Date
11-12-2016 12:00 AM
Description
Collaborative innovation in information technology outsourcing (ITO), in which client and vendor aim at jointly creating innovations, is an emergent phenomenon in theory and practice. Research on collaborative innovation has focused on how governance can influence key innovation outcomes. This study employs a different perspective. We argue that beyond direct effects on a client’s innovation performance, collaborative innovation has an enabling effect because client’s IT employees benefit from knowledge and experience spillovers. In particular, we analyze how knowledge transfer and collaborative innovation success influences an employee’s ability to recognize entrepreneurial opportunities and intrapreneurial behavior. To test our hypotheses, we collected data from 212 IT employees whose employer collaborates with an IT vendor on innovation. We found that collaborative innovation success and knowledge transfer to the client positively influences opportunity recognition and IT employee’s intrapreneurial behavior. These findings can advance our understanding regarding the enabling effect of collaborative innovation in ITO.
Recommended Citation
Kranz, Johann Joachim; Leonhardt, Daniel; and Kolbe, Lutz Maria, "The Enabling Effect of Collaborative Innovation in Information Technology Outsourcing on Individual Intrapreneurial Behavior" (2016). ICIS 2016 Proceedings. 17.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2016/ISStrategy/Presentations/17
The Enabling Effect of Collaborative Innovation in Information Technology Outsourcing on Individual Intrapreneurial Behavior
Collaborative innovation in information technology outsourcing (ITO), in which client and vendor aim at jointly creating innovations, is an emergent phenomenon in theory and practice. Research on collaborative innovation has focused on how governance can influence key innovation outcomes. This study employs a different perspective. We argue that beyond direct effects on a client’s innovation performance, collaborative innovation has an enabling effect because client’s IT employees benefit from knowledge and experience spillovers. In particular, we analyze how knowledge transfer and collaborative innovation success influences an employee’s ability to recognize entrepreneurial opportunities and intrapreneurial behavior. To test our hypotheses, we collected data from 212 IT employees whose employer collaborates with an IT vendor on innovation. We found that collaborative innovation success and knowledge transfer to the client positively influences opportunity recognition and IT employee’s intrapreneurial behavior. These findings can advance our understanding regarding the enabling effect of collaborative innovation in ITO.