Fwd: CfP - EURAM track "Managing Open Innovation through OnlineCommunities"

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> From: "Rullani Francesco" <[email protected]>
> Date: November 14, 2006 11:07:28 AM EST
> To: "Rullani Francesco" <[email protected]>, "Dahlander,  
> Linus"<l.dahlander-AQ/[email protected]>, "Frederiksen,  
> Lars"<l.frederiksen-AQ/[email protected]>
> Subject: CfP - EURAM track "Managing Open Innovation through   
> OnlineCommunities"
>
> Dear Colleagues,
> here is the call for paper for our track at EURAM conference we  
> already started to distribute. As said, we will really appreciate  
> if you'd like to submit your work, as well as every help to spread  
> the call.
> Thanks a lot for your help and interest,
> best regards,
> Lars, Linus & Francesco
>
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS---------
>
> Hi everybody,
> please, consider to submit your work to (and to help us to spread  
> the news about) the EURAM track
> "Managing Open Innovation through Online Communities"
> (EURAM conference: Paris, May 16 -19, 2007,
> http://www.euram2007.org/)
>
> Here is the call (pdf at
> http://www.euram2007.org/UserFiles/Track%2015%20bis.pdf):
> Dealine: January 2, 2007.
> Submission: through the conference website (you'll have to specify  
> the track title)
>
> Conference track on:
> Managing Open Innovation through Online Communities
>
> Track chairs:
> Linus Dahlander, Advanced Institute of Management Research
> Fellow, Imperial College London, Innovation Studies Centre,
> l.dahlander-AQ/[email protected]
>
> Lars Frederiksen, Research Associate, Innovation Studies
> Centre, Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London,
> l.frederiksen-AQ/[email protected]
>
> Francesco Rullani, LEM, Sant?Anna School of Advanced
> Studies, Pisa, Italy, and visiting at Copenhagen Business
> School, Denmark, Dept. of Industrial Economics and
> Strategy. [email protected]
>
> Call for papers:
>
> This track focuses on management of distributed innovation
> processes in the context of Open Innovation. In particular,
> we invite papers on business models for Open Innovation
> that enable integration of information and inventions from
> various agents participating in online communities.
>
> In recent years firms? strategies have focused increasingly
> on benefiting from diffusion of information, inventions and
> innovation. Economics, management of technology,
> organizational behavior, marketing and strategy studies
> have been challenged by the emerging paradigm of Open
> Innovation. As Chesbrough (2003:XXIV) puts it: ??.firms can
> and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas,
> and internal and external paths to market, as the firms
> look to advance their technology?.
>
> Nevertheless, few papers applying the novel lens of Open
> Innovation have aimed at understanding business models and
> innovation dynamics derived by firms? relationship with
> users (i.e. end users, suppliers, etc.) participating in
> online communities. This is somewhat surprising since
> empirical research has found that users rather than
> producers (i.e. manufacturers) are often the developers of
> many new and improved products and services. This
> conference track aims to remedy this.
> To achieve its goal, the track is meant to stimulate and
> collect novel research on business models of Open
> Innovation based on online activities.
>
> Users? activities are usually embedded in communities
> emerging and evolving around the services and products of
> the involved firms and the specific interests of the users
> (e.g. free and open source software, cars, kayaking,
> videogames and music, pharmaceutical industry). In some of
> these communities the users? role is to (re)invent
> incumbents? products by creating their own add-ons and
> modifications. In other user communities entirely new
> knowledge is created and new products arise from user
> interaction (i.e. free/open source software).
> Also, users contribute important information to the firm as
> well as to each other. In fact, some online user
> communities are established simply to satisfy users? need
> to transact, communicate and seek, expose, match and share
> information (e.g. MYSpace.com, ebay.com). Thanks to users?
> heterogeneity this enables further learning effects and
> improves coordination.
> Online communities are nowadays a widespread phenomenon.
> They can be found in various industry domains, involved in
> open as well as proprietary settings, aimed at supporting
> hobbyists? and/or professionals? interests. Therefore,
> online communities constitute potential external sources of
> information and invention for those firms able to implement
> a constructive relationship with them, and this in turn
> explains why they are receiving increasing attention from
> practitioners as well as from researchers.
> Themes of the papers could include (but are not limited
> to):
>
> -	Process views on how user involvement through online
> communities becomes product or process innovations.
> -	Strategies to transform users? efforts and involvement
> into a constant flow of rents from innovation.
> -	Communication vs. invention: towards a wider concept of
> online participation -	Firms? strategies to create online user  
> communities and
> to sustain (and determine) their development
> -	Firms cooperation and online community building
> -	Modularity and IPR?s as key factors to create the space
> where communities can emerge
> -	The disadvantages of online communities for innovation
> -	User communities and the firm boundaries: is there an
> optimal level of users? integration?
> -	New insights on how online communities serve as a cradle
> for entrepreneurship
> -	Taxonomy and different archetypes of online communities
> (e.g. firm hosted, open source, free flowing user
> communities, etc.)
> -	Conditions preventing/promoting the construction of
> online user communities -	Emergence of institutions to protect or  
> accommodate the
> different interests of firms and users
> -	How does the nature of knowledge (abstract, complex,
> tacit) constrain/facilitate online user communities?
> development?
> -	The online community setting versus the off-line setting:  
> differences and similarities
> -	Incentives and motivations to contribute to online
> communities
>
> The objective of the track is to receive a number of
> well-crafted papers contributing original ideas that can
> advance the research in this emerging field of management
> of innovation studies. Because of the infancy of the field,
> we encourage the submission of papers using novel
> methodologies (quantitative as well as qualitative)
> resulting in novel theoretical insights. All submitted
> papers will receive a double blind review process.
>
> Please note that the track chairs have made an arrangement
> with the peer-reviewed journal Industry and Innovation
> about publishing a special issue in February 2008 on this
> suggested topic. This will serve as an attractive outlet
> for the best papers of the track.
>
> Hope to see you in Paris!
> Best,
> Francesco
>
>
> ---
> Francesco Rullani
> --Laboratory of Economics and Management,
> Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies,
> Piazza dei Martiri della liberta, 33,
> 56127 Pisa,
> Italy.
> Ph: +39 050 883343
> Fax: +39 050 883344
> email: [email protected]
> --IVS, Dept. of Industrial Economics and Strategy
> Copenhagen Business School
> Kilevej 14A, 3rd floor, office 3.46,
> 2000 Frederiksberg,
> Denmark.
> Ph: +45 3815 2837
> Fax: +45 3815 2540
> email: [email protected] Homepage: https://mail.sssup.it/~rullani

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