Open innovation and strategic decisions of enterprises

Purpose: The aim of the article is to verify the dependencies between the implementation of open innovations as strategic companies' decisions and the achieved financial results. Design/methodology/approach: The paper contains three parts. In the first part the strategic decisions in enterprise management were presented. In the second part the open innovations as an instrument for implementing enterprise strategic decisions were shown. And in the last part of the paper the methods were described. In this part of the paper the verification of dependencies between the implementation of open innovations and achieved financial results were presented. The whole of the paper is closed by the discussion and summary. Findings: The article shows the topic concerned with open innovations with regard to the strategic decisions of enterprises. It has been shown that the implementation of open innovation in an enterprise affects its financial result. Originality/value: The issues of implementing open innovations in logistics enterprises are important and current due to their impact on the financial results of the surveyed enterprises.