Social Trust and Open Innovation in an Informal Economy: The Emergence of Shenzhen Mobile Phone Industry

Chen, Yu‐Chun; Chen, Min-Nan

doi:10.3390/su12030775

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“…The 21st paper analyzes how technology start-ups increase innovative performance, with a focus on employment change in Korea, which is related to entrepreneur leading culture for open innovation dynamics, in addition to manufacturing firms in Southeast Asia [141,142].…”

Section: Organizational Entrepreneurship Leading Culture For Open Innovation Dynamicsmentioning

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The Culture for Open Innovation Dynamics

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Culture, in its various forms, has always been a critical driver of innovation. This paper focuses on generating some insights into the role of “culture for open innovation dynamics”. First, because the requirement to understand culture, which can control open innovation complexity, has been augmented, we want to answer the following research question in this study: How can we define or organize “culture for open innovation dynamics”, which can motivate open innovation dynamics, and control open innovation complexity? Second, we propose a concept model of culture for open innovation dynamics by reviewing the literature on the culture of firms in terms of their traits, organization, static innovation, and dynamic aspects regarding their innovation in entrepreneurship, and we validate said model through an indirect social experiment using the research results of 23 Special Issue papers. Third, the concept model of culture for open innovation dynamics is explained as the interaction between three different entrepreneurship dimensions: Entrepreneurship of novice entrepreneurs, intrapreneurship of employees of an existing firm, and organizational entrepreneurship by the firm itself. According to the balance of three sub-entrepreneurship types, culture for open innovation dynamics can have different aspects, namely, entrepreneurship leading culture for open innovation dynamics, intrapreneurship leading culture for open innovation dynamics, or organizational entrepreneurship leading culture for open innovation dynamics. This paper helps organizations and entrepreneurs to better understand the role that culture plays in boosting open innovation dynamics.

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“…So far, the role of open innovation in the informal economy has not gained much attention in extant literature. In [90], the authors reported that informal cultural norms such as social trust or ties can improve open innovation outputs when explored by an informal economy as demonstrated by the Shenzhen mobile industry in China. The potential for open innovation in the informal economy was also substantiated by observed practices among informal sector auto parts fabricators in Kampala, Uganda as reported in [91,92].…”

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The Informal Sector and Economic Growth of South Africa and Nigeria: A Comparative Systematic Review

Etim

Daramola

2020

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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The informal sector is an integral part of several sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries and plays a key role in the economic growth of these countries. This article used a comparative systematic review to explore the factors that act as drivers to informality in South Africa (SA) and Nigeria, the challenges that impede the growth dynamics of the informal sector, the dominant subsectors, and policy initiatives targeting informal sector providers. A systematic search of Google Scholar, Scopus, ResearchGate was performed together with secondary data collated from grey literature. Using Boolean string search protocols facilitated the elucidation of research questions (RQs) raised in this study. An inclusion and exclusion criteria became necessary for rigour, comprehensiveness and limitation of publication bias. The data collated from thirty-one (31) primary studies (17 for SA and 14 for Nigeria) revealed that unemployment, income disparity among citizens, excessive tax burdens, excessive bureaucratic hurdles from government, inflationary tendencies, poor corruption control, GDP per capita, and lack of social protection survival tendencies all act as drivers to the informal sector in SA and Nigeria. Several challenges are given for both economies and policy incentives that might help sustain and improve the informal sector in these two countries.

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“…The informal economy, also known as the hidden, underground, black, grey, shadow, irregular, or unobserved economy, is increasingly gaining traction among researchers (Khuong et al, 2020). Partly, this is due to the significant economic role played by informal businesses (Y. C. Chen & Chen, 2020;Lv, 2020). For instance, the International Labour Organization [ILO] (2020) noted that two billion people, equivalent to 61.2% of the world's employed individuals, worked in the informal economy.…”

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Effect of a perceived threat of informal actors on the business performance of formal actors: inbound tour operators’ perspective

Mwesiumo

Abdalla

Öztüren

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Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing

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This paper develops and tests a conceptual model to examine the effect of a perceived threat of informal actors on the business performance of formal actors. Drawing on a sample of 130 inbound tour operators, structural path analysis shows that the perceived threat of informal actors is positively associated with the formal actors' service quality and customer acquisition efforts, which subsequently are positively associated with an increase in business performance. The perceived threat of informal actors appears to increase business performance only through its influence on service quality and customer acquisition efforts. Based on the findings, actionable recommendations are provided.

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Social Trust and Open Innovation in an Informal Economy: The Emergence of Shenzhen Mobile Phone Industry

Cited by 7 publications

References 81 publications

The Culture for Open Innovation Dynamics

The Culture for Open Innovation Dynamics

The Informal Sector and Economic Growth of South Africa and Nigeria: A Comparative Systematic Review

Effect of a perceived threat of informal actors on the business performance of formal actors: inbound tour operators’ perspective

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