Research summary. Firms in technology-based settings must mobilize individual knowledge to continuously execute innovative new opportunities. Because knowledge is generally conceptualized at the firm-level, however, we have only a limited understanding of how individual-level knowledge...

How should firms organize their pool of inventive human capital for firm-level innovation? While access to diverse knowledge may aid knowledge recombination, which can facilitate innovation, prior literature has focused primarily on one way of achieving that: diversity of inventor-held knowledge...

Crowdsourcing-asking an undefined group of external contributors to work on tasks-allows organizations to tap into the expertise of people around the world. Crowdsourcing is known to increase innovation and loyalty to brands, but many organizations struggle to leverage its potential, as our...