Connecting Epistemic Communities in an Open Innovation Network Through an Intermediary Performance Management System

Knowledge sharing need to operate in an organized manner to simplify the complexities of collaboration in heterogeneous settings. This study hopes to shed light on the role of intermediary organizations in the implementation of a performance management system (PMS) in open innovation networks for creating the better setting for epistemic communities involved to integrate their knowledge across epistemic and organizational boundaries. Insights may contribute to the further development of the knowledge-based view and may provide a better guide on how a PMS could be designed to deal with diverging epistemic objectives and cognitive and normative frameworks in open innovation networks.