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 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...

“Open innovation” and “external search” for new ideas are central topics in the recent discourse in innovation research. External search helps firms to identify new opportunities for innovation and alleviates the risks of local search. It is widely acknowledged that novel ideas regularly...