Platform, open/user innovation, and ecosystem strategies embrace and enable interactions with external entities. Firms …/user innovation, and ecosystem strategies. We focus on managerial and organizational challenges for organizations pursuing these …. Additionally, we consider four strategic leadership topics and how they relate to platform, open/user innovation, and ecosystem …

to perceptually expand an innovation's categorical boundaries and to cast the innovation as emotionally-resonant with the … broadening the organization's innovation practices. We advance a theoretical model that relaxes the assumption that cognitive … that appeal to organizational sentiments and aspirations in innovation adoption …

Innovation traditionally takes place within an organization's boundaries and with selected partners. This Chandlerian …, and communication costs have been an important constraint on innovation and a reason why innovation takes place inside the … user innovation. We suggest that when information constraints drop dramatically, and the locus of innovation shifts to the …