Many aspects in the area of designing platforms for intra-organizational innovation communities are not well understood. In this article, we examine the impact of technologically induced psychological factors on knowledge exchange in such communities. Using two experimental pretest-posttest...

Innovation literature stresses the importance of opening the innovation process to internal and external innovators. The question of what determines the integration of these types of innovators in the innovation process remains open. We use a sociotechnical systems perspective to address a...

While the principle of competition has long been found to be conducive to innovation, community-based innovation contests additionally offer the possibilities of interaction and cooperation among participants. This duality makes innovation contests an interesting field for both academia and...

Within communities knowledge is shared regularly. Although today’s communities can rely on sophisticated collaboration technologies, the sharing of knowledge remains impeded by different social mechanisms. Removing impediments that originate from different understandings between knowledge...

In a world moving towards services, driving service productivity is a central challenge for leaders and members of all types of organisations: for service businesses there is a clear need to be “productive”, but it is far less clear what this exactly means. In this book, we invite you on a...

In der klassischen Unternehmenstheorie bildet das Wissen des Managements einen weitgehend weißen Fleck. Bedingt durch den Wandel in Unternehmen und Märkten hat das Interesse in den vergangenen Jahren deutlich zugenommen. Rolle und Formen des Managementwissens ebenso wie die Institutionen...