This paper explores how an open approach to new venture creation — purposefully managing knowledge flows across the venture's organizational boundary — can be beneficial for start-up entrepreneurs. Our inductive case study, of both failure and success, identifies the key attributes of this...

While users may be an important source of innovation, and even of entrepreneurship, we know little about the exact psychological mechanism that underpins user innovators’ transition to user entrepreneurship (UE). In this study, we focus on user innovators’ communitarian identity, which is a...