Does commercial success diminish creativity? With arguments both for and against, the question remains one the biggest of puzzles in the study of creativity. In this paper, using novel measures of creativity and success, we identify the causal impact of success on subsequent levels of...

How does the level of success of the latest project impact the resource sets and decisions of a project entrepreneur? As they move from one project to the next one, project entrepreneurs are faced with the need to rewire and redeploy a variety of resources repeatedly. Even though such...

We use the knowledge-based view of firms to reason that organizational unlearning — intentional discarding of processes, routines, strategies, structures, and knowledge by organizations — has important implications on firm's adaptive and learning abilities in emerging economies. In...

Traditionally, the term ‘crowd' was used almost exclusively in the context of people who self-organized around a common purpose, emotion or experience. Today, however, firms often refer to ‘crowds' in discussions of how collections of individuals can be engaged for organizational purposes....

To begin to understand the implications of the implementation of IT-mediated Crowds for Politics and Policy purposes, this research builds the first-known dataset of IT-mediated Crowd applications currently in use in the governance context. Using Crowd Capital theory and governance theory as...

We are seeing more and more organizations undertaking activities to engage dispersed populations through Information Systems (IS). Using the knowledge-based view of the organization, this work conceptualizes a theory of Crowd Capital to explain this phenomenon. Crowd Capital is a heterogeneous...

In this work we seek to understand how differences in location affect participation outcomes in IT-mediated crowds. To do so, we operationalize Crowd Capital Theory with data from a popular international creative crowdsourcing site, to determine whether regional differences exist in...

The increasing practice of engaging crowds, where organizations use IT to connect with dispersed individuals for explicit resource creation purposes, has precipitated the need to measure the precise processes and benefits of these activities over myriad different implementations. In this work,...

In this work we use the theory of Crowd Capital as a lens to compare and contrast a number of IS tools currently in use by organizations for crowd-engagement purposes. In doing so, we contribute to both the practitioner and research domains. For the practitioner community we provide...