Being the fourth in the series on Stakeholder Management books, the current volume looks back at the beginnings of Stakeholder Management and how it has since developed into a fully-fledged system over the last 20 years. It also highlights the importance of a benchmarking database generated from...

This paper provides a brief overview of the concepts of collective invention, user innovation, and open innovation. All three terms describe variants of distributed innovation processes and can be linked to further ideas of socio-economic decentralization. First, the conceptual differences...