Open innovation is often facilitated by strong intellectual property rights (IPRs), but it may also function, and even be boosted, when firms deliberately waive some of their IPRs. Extant literature has pointed out the potential benefits of such behavior, but falls short of explaining what...

Governance structure represents a system of rights available to members of a social entity, their modes of representation, and the structure and processes that conduct power resources (Davis, 2005 in O'Mahony & Bechky, 2008). However formal allocation of decision rights ignites the notion of...