Individual Resilience Through Open Innovation: Exploring Gender and Age Intermediation in Academia, Dr Samah Horchani, Prof. Mahmoud Zouaoui
Dr Samah Chemli Horchani
Management Department, Tunis El-Manar University, FSEGT
Laboratory of Innovation Strategy Entrepreneurship Finance and Economics (LISEFE), Tunis
Tunisia
Email: samahchemli1@gmail.com
Prof. Mahmoud Zouaoui
Management Department, High Business School, ESCT
Laboratory of Innovation Strategy Entrepreneurship Finance and Economics (LISEFE), Tunis
Tunisia
Email: mahmoudzouaoui.esct@gmail.com
Paper Type: Research Paper
Received: 4 August 2023 / Revised: 2 November 2023 / Accepted: 2 November 2023 / Published: 30 December 2023
DOI: 10.47556/B.OUTLOOK2023.19.5
Abstract
Purpose: The present study deals with the link between open innovation and resilience. It examines the mechanisms by which open innovation generates effects on different resilience forms. Open innovation, through its effect, is studied as a component affecting resilience, especially on an individual level.
Design/Methodology/Approach: Data were collected from 250 higher education students using non-probabilistic convenience sampling. Factor analysis, followed by a structural equation modelling analysis with Smart PLS software, made it possible to study the link significance.
Findings: Findings confirm that open innovation positively affects individual resilience through its two components, external technology acquisition and external technology exploitation. The results show that gender moderates the link between open innovation and individual resilience, but the age moderating effect is partially verified.
Originality/Value of the paper: The originality of the paper is in providing further understanding of open innovation importance to ensure resilience at the individual level.
Research Limitations/Implications: These findings contribute to a better discernment of the studied concepts through a meticulous literature study.
Practical Implications: The results are a major support at the practical level through the programming of an individual or combined resilience likely to impact human development in the long term.
Keywords: External Technology Acquisition; External Technology Exploitation; Individual Resilience; High Education; Gender; Age.
Citation: Horchani, S.C. and Zouaoui, M. (2023) “Impact of Open Innovation on Individual Resilience: Exploring Higher Education Students’ Perceptions and Experiences”, in World Sustainable Development Outlook 2023, Vol. 19, pp. 71–87 (London, UK: WASD).