Innovation management, collaboration management, collaborative business, enterprise networks, distributed innovation processes, Virtual organizations, collaborative network relationship analysis. - Distributed innovation processes are considered as a new option to handle both the complexity and...

Open source software and open innovation are an important resource for today’s industries. Communities collaboratively create different kind of publicly available value, boosting innovation and also technology. However, whereas this value is generated and captured by various involved parties,...

Information technology is also having effects on structures. Because of the easier and speedier communications and the increasing sophistication of automatic decision making by computers, middle management is tending to disappear in many organisations. Organisations are becoming flatter and...