Conférence : World Open Innovation Conference 2019, 11 décembre 2019
The objective of our study is to contribute to the understanding of the OI adoption in the context of SMEs by exploring the specific strategic and organizational characteristics of this type of enterprise, and identify the determinants that enable them to adopt OI practices. Through a rigorous literature review of 98 articles and books, we identified 22 organizational characteristics, 3 strategic characteristics and 12 OI practices. These determinants have been grouped according to four of the five levels of analysis recommended by Bogers et al (2017). Based on the results obtained, we proposed a conceptual model for the OI adoption in SMEs that links strategic and organizational characteristics to practices. For academics, the results will contribute to have a better understanding of factors that influence OI adoption in the specific context of SMEs. The proposed conceptual framework will also provide a basis for future researches. For managers, these results will help them to take better account of organizational and strategic characteristics in order to develop the openness of SMEs.