The existing literature on open innovation mostly concentrates on large firms. Little is known about the role of open innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In this paper we explore how SMEs engage in open innovation search. We draw upon a new survey of 1,489 SMEs. Results...

Digital technologies have fundamentally altered the nature of organizing innovation and production leading to open collaboration ecosystems. Individuals self-organize in open, voluntary technology-enabled collectives to share their enhancements to the data or collaborate on analyzing,...

In our recent open innovation executive studies, we learned that open innovation is of strategic value for large firms and an important topic for C-level executives (Chesbrough and Brunswicker 2014, Bagherzadeh and Brunswicker 2015). Large firms increasingly invest in open innovation, and there...

In an age of unprecedented virtual, mediated, and distributed collaboration, information transparency and its effects on social interaction, knowledge sharing, and decision making has attracted tremendous scholarly interest in various disciplines, with mixed and often contradicting results. We...

This paper examines reuse patterns in transparent multi-staged contests, in which a crowd of developers can reuse others’ designs when developing a novel digital application. They compete for the best application, one that is of high quality in both code and feature. Transparency, defined as...

Formal de jure Standard Development Organizations (SDOs) coordinate the development of compatibility standards that ensure technological progress and welfare through interoperability. Informal SDOs, which are self-organized and not mandated by law, co-exist with formal SDOs to develop...

The established stream of literature on design architectures argues that designers should aim for modular architecture in order increase the system’s technical performance by lowering the propagation costs of the system’s design: A system with a small stable “core”, a cycle of coupled...

The concept of open innovation lies at the heart of the current research debate on innovation and strategy. Existing literature indicates that firms vitalize their interest in opening their innovation processes and business models to commercialize not only their own ideas but also external ones....

In this chapter, the authors examine interdependence within and between routines by focusing on an aspect of routines that has often been taken for granted: boundaries. Logically, boundaries are needed to individuate and separate the entities that are being related or compared. Using...