Online communities and open innovation: governance and symbolic value creation

The advent of Internet marked a significant change in how users and customerscan be involved in the innovative process. History is rife with examples of how users innovate, but Internet and its associated communication technologies brought radically new means for individuals to interact rapidly and at little cost in communities that spur new innovations. These communities are initiatedand governed by people that differ in their motivations for taking part and participate to varying degrees. Such communities are outside the immediate control of companies seeking to develop open innovation strategies aimed at harnessing their work. This book brings together distinguished scholars from different disciplines: economics, organization theory, innovation studies and marketing in order to provide an improved understanding of how technological as well as symbolic value is created and appropriated at the intersection between online communities and firms. Empirical examples are presented from different industries, including software, services and manufacturing. The book offers food for thought for academics and managers to an important phenomenon that challenges many conventional wisdoms for how business can be done. This book was published as a special issue of Industry and Innovation. INDICE: 1. Online Communities and Open Innovation: Governance and SymbolicValue Creation Linus Dahlander, Lars Frederiksen and Francesco Rullani 2. Of Hackers and Hairdressers: Modularity and the Organizational Economics of Open-source Collaboration Richard N. Langlois and Giampaolo Garzarelli 3. The Role of Participation Architecture in Growing Sponsored Open Source Communities Joel West and Siobha'n O'Mahony 4. Keep it Simple: A Companion for Simple Wikipedia? Matthijs den Besten and Jean-Michel Dalle 5. Communities of Consumption and Made in Italy Eleonora Di Maria and Vladi Finotto 6. Leveraging Lead User Knowledge in Software Development--The Case of Weblog Technology Stephan Kaiser and Gordon Mu ller-Seitz 7. Getting Clear About Communities in Open InnovationJoel West and Karim R. Lakhani

• ISBN: 978-0-415-61748-2
• Editorial: Routledge
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 128
• Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés