Motivated by prior inconclusive findings on the effectiveness of open innovation initiatives in generating business value and the complexity of open innovation, this study draws on the IT-enabled organizational capabilities perspective to propose that the mobilization of information technology (IT) resources can positively affect the development of open innovation initiatives and, in turn, improve firms' open innovation performance. Our empirical analysis of >1100 large Spanish firms confirms that firms' IT resource investments positively impact the development and execution of open innovation initiatives, which in turn improves firms' open innovation performance in terms of product and process innovations. This research contributes to the business value of IT and to Information Systems (IS) research on open innovation by evidencing the enabling role of IT investment in achieving open innovation performance gains.

受先前关于开放式创新举措在创造商业价值方面的有效性以及开放式创新的复杂性的不确定性研究结果的启发，本研究利用 IT 支持的组织能力视角提出，信息技术 (IT) 资源的调动可以对开放式创新产生积极影响。发展开放式创新举措，进而提高企业的开放式创新绩效。我们对超过 1100 家西班牙大型企业的实证分析证实，企业的 IT 资源投资对开放式创新计划的开发和执行产生积极影响，从而提高企业在产品和流程创新方面的开放式创新绩效。这项研究通过证明 IT 投资在实现开放式创新绩效收益方面的促进作用，为 IT 的商业价值和开放式创新的信息系统 (IS) 研究做出了贡献。