Purpose – This paper proposes the concepts of communities of enterprise (CoEs) and virtual communities of enterprise (VCoEs) to describe business networking patterns in regional areas where there is no central organisational or industry focus and small and medium enterprises dominate the...

Opening up firms to open source has changed professional programmers' work in software development. In their work practice they must cope with two modes of software production: one based on proprietary, closed work situations, the other built around open source community ways of cooperation and...

The following sections are included: <ul><li class="bullet">Introduction</li></ul> <ul><li class="bullet">The Dynamics of Open Innovation Ecosystems</li></ul> <ul><li class="bullet">The Concept of Generativity</li></ul> <ul><li class="bullet">The Mobile Phone Industry in Change</li></ul> <ul><li class="bullet">Case Description: The iPhone and Android <ul><li class="bullet"> iPhone</li><li class="bullet"> Android</li></ul> <p></li></ul> <ul><li class="bullet">iPhone and Android: A Generativity Lens <ul><li class="bullet"> Leverage</li><li class="bullet"> Adaptability</li><li class="bullet"> Ease of mastery</li><li class="bullet">...</li></ul></li></ul></p>