While the user-innovation literature has considered firms as potential user-innovators, little is known about the individual contributions by employees of producer-firms, who innovate to address their own specific needs within their firm, and which we refer to as employee-users. We investigate...

Distributed innovation in the form of open- and user innovation affects the evolution of the market. This paper presents an agent-based model where the agents are users and firms that both seek to reap the benefits of innovation. We use this model to examine the interaction between firms and...

As ethnography branches into the fields of business, marketing research, innovation and design research, anthropologists working outside academic contexts are developing a set of practices that in many ways mirror the work of academic anthropology and in other ways diverge from it. Drawing from...