In the field of Open Innovation, virtual communities set up by companies in order to integrate customers into their innovation process are a new and promising instrument.[...]

“Crowdsourcing” is currently one of the most discussed key words among IS and innovation researchers. The major question for both research and business is how to find and lever the enormous potential of the “collective brain” to broaden the scope of “open R&D”. Thus, Communities for...

This paper presents a research project called “GENIE”. It aims at developing a concept for integratingexternal stakeholders into a company’s innovation management through a virtual community. This novelinstrument for opening up a company’s innovation process towards external stakeholders...

This Research in Progress paper analysesusers’ requirements for the development of aVirtual Community (VC) for the academic SAPUCC (University Competence Center) UserGroup. The SAP UCC User Group consists oflecturers and students using SAP Software foreducational purposes. Initially, we are...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore whether online communities meet their potential ofproviding environments in which social relationships can be readily established to help patients copewith their disease through social support. The paper aims to develop and test a model to...

The Internet has spurred a phenomenal growth of virtual communities (VC). VCs can range fromsimple information exchange based forums to more complex networks supporting new productdevelopment. For example, communities of interest based forums such as investment-relatedVirtual Communities bring...