Academic articles
Practitioner articles
Working papers
Books
Book chapters
Case studies
Other publications
Subject(s)
Human resources management/organizational behavior
Secondary Title
Careers without borders: Critical perspectives
Pages
185–204
ISBN
978-0415501156
Subject(s)
Economics, politics and business environment
Secondary Title
Europäisches Beihilfenrecht
Pages
186–195
ISBN
978-3-8329-5758-2
Subject(s)
Economics, politics and business environment
Secondary Title
Europäisches Beihilfenrecht
Pages
524–531
ISBN
978-3-8329-5758-2
Subject(s)
Product and operations management
Keyword(s)
Revenue management, pricing, coordination, price-sensitive stochastic demand, hierarchical policies, lost sales rate elasticity
This is a revised version of the INSEAD paper, which was then published in Management Science. A pdf file of this working paper is available at SSRN.
Subject(s)
Technology, R&D management
Keyword(s)
Automobile industry, partnerships, protection of intellectual property
Subject(s)
Human resources management/organizational behavior
Keyword(s)
leadership, coaching, psychology
Secondary Title
The Wiley Blackwell handbook of the psychology of leadership, change and organizational development
Pages
65–88
ISBN
978-1-1199-7657-8
This paper analyzes attempts to build user ideation communities aimed at inviting users to submit ideas and suggestions for future organizational actions. While earlier work has elaborated on the advantages of communities once they are created, our findings show that the ‘average’ organization struggles to build a vibrant community: most simply wither or die. We develop an argument about the importance of committing resources in the forms of (1) employees who submit suggestions to the community and (2) accepting suggestions from people in the community, and particularly suggestions from newcomers. Our findings suggest that creating communities often requires significant attention from the organizations seeking to develop them. However, our results are contingent upon the stage of the community, where we see different effects depending on whether the community has a history of accumulating suggestions or not. Our work has implications for scholars of open innovation by highlighting the importance of considering the innumerable failures, showing how focusing on communities that have reached a certain size can lead to misleading conclusions and specifying some conditions that explain why some are more successful than others.
With permission of the Academy of Management
Volume
2013
ISSN (Online)
2151-6561
ISSN (Print)
0065-0668
Subject(s)
Information technology and systems
Secondary Title
Encyclopedia of management theory
Pages
790–792
ISBN
9781412997829