TY - JOUR
T1 - Integrating business, social, and environmental goals in open innovation through partner selection
AU - Santos, Ricardo Simões
AU - Soares, José
AU - Marques, Pedro Carmona
AU - Navas, Helena V. G.
AU - Martins, Josémoleiro
PY - 2021/11/21
Y1 - 2021/11/21
N2 - Although collaborative networks (CN) are widespread in academia and have come to be even more used in corporations all over the world, they still face several challenges on behalf of the new product development (NPD) context, especially in regard to the selection of the CN’s right partner. This becomes even more evident when it comes to promoting sustainable development goals within a CN’s activities, by selecting the right partners with a wide consensus from a CN’s management board, avoiding, therefore, the subjectivity around managers’ perception of a CN’s partner selection. Therefore, this work attempts to answer this problem, by presenting a soft-com-puting-based framework, to support the managers’ board on partner search and selection. The method presented here is further assessed by using a case study, based on the development of a green product, where, according to the obtained results, it is demonstrated that the proposed approach is extremely effective for partner selection, by assessing and prioritizing each candidate involved. The most suitable candidate that fulfills the CN’s requirements is then selected to be integrated as a future partner.
AB - Although collaborative networks (CN) are widespread in academia and have come to be even more used in corporations all over the world, they still face several challenges on behalf of the new product development (NPD) context, especially in regard to the selection of the CN’s right partner. This becomes even more evident when it comes to promoting sustainable development goals within a CN’s activities, by selecting the right partners with a wide consensus from a CN’s management board, avoiding, therefore, the subjectivity around managers’ perception of a CN’s partner selection. Therefore, this work attempts to answer this problem, by presenting a soft-com-puting-based framework, to support the managers’ board on partner search and selection. The method presented here is further assessed by using a case study, based on the development of a green product, where, according to the obtained results, it is demonstrated that the proposed approach is extremely effective for partner selection, by assessing and prioritizing each candidate involved. The most suitable candidate that fulfills the CN’s requirements is then selected to be integrated as a future partner.
KW - Collaboration networks
KW - Fuzzy logic
KW - New product development (NPD)
KW - Partner selection
KW - Sustainability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85119898433&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/su132212870
DO - 10.3390/su132212870
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85119898433
SN - 2071-1050
VL - 13
JO - Sustainability
JF - Sustainability
IS - 22
M1 - 12870
ER -