2nd CfP (news on speakers and deadlines) - Managing Open Innovation through Online Communities

Hi everybody,
here is the second call for papers for the EURAM track
"Managing Open Innovation through Online Communities"
(EURAM conference: Paris, May 16 -19, 2007,
http://www.euram2007.org/)

     *****Notice that the deadline for this track has been
postponed to January 15th, 2007*****

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We are also happy to announce two key note speakers:=20
- The track will kick off with a key note introductory
speak by Joel West from San Jose State University who
recently co-edited (with Henry Chesbrough and Wim
Vanhaverbeke) the book Open Innovation: Researching a New
Paradigm (Oxford University Press, 2006). More information
about Joel and his interesting work can we be found at
www.joelwest.org and www.openinnovation.net.
- The track will be finalized and hence summarized by Karim
Lakhani from Harvard Business School. Karim is the
co-editor of Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software=20
(MIT Press, 2005) and co-founder of the MIT-based Open
Source research community and web portal. More information
about Karim and his fascinating projects can be found at:
http://dor.hbs.edu/fi_redirect.jhtml?facInfo=3Dbio&facEmId=3Dklakhani&loc=
=3Dextn

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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 strategic management
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.=20

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 (e.g. firm-sponsored and firm-hosted online
communities). In other user communities entirely new
knowledge is created and new products arise from user
interaction (i.e. free/open source software).=20

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.=20

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.=20

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=20
- 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=20
- 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
=96 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.

Track chairs:=20

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 post-doc at Copenhagen
Business School, Denmark, Dept. of Industrial Economics and
Strategy. [email protected]



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> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:25:18 -0500
> From: James Howison <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [F/OSS-Community] Q: Software for analyzing
> listserv and
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> Hi Jonas,
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> We've done quite a few qualitative (and partially
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> analyses of email, forum and tracker data:
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> http://floss.syr.edu/publications
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> Particularly our last two ICIS papers (Decision making
> and Task =20
> Assignment).  We've tried using HyperResearch but have
> recently =20
> 'retreated' to a manual coding process.  Others that come
> to mind are
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> You don't say what features you particularly want that
> aren't in the =20
> current qual analysis (Atlas.TI, NVIVO etc), but I know
> what bugs me =20
> about them in this context.
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> a) support for features of who spoke to whom (including
> info of their =20
> user/developer status), and
> b) understanding of time across documents (threads,
> querying codes by =20
> time period and organizing series of coded events into
> episodes over =20
> time).
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> What do you find to be missing?
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> I've been trying to develop a cross-artifact system using
> Ruby on =20
> Rails, but I've had to put that aside at the moment, but
> the doc/=20
> README_FOR_APP.txt, public/TODO.txt and
> doc/EventModel-small.png will =20
> show you where I am eventually planning to go with it:
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http://ossmole.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ossmole/flosseventbrowser/
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> trunk/
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> You might find the below interesting (posted today on the
> SOCNET list =20
> in response to a query about qualitative network analysis
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> obvious what he meant by the question though!).  It looks
> interesting =20
> for the to-from element, but maybe not the over-time
> element.  If you =20
> do get a chance to check it out, perhaps you could post
> your =20
> experiences here?
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> Cheers,
> James
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> Begin forwarded message:
> > From: "Robert T. Trotter, II" <robert.trotter-HBjXsy/[email protected]>
> > Date: December 19, 2006 9:33:04 PM EST
> > To: SOCNET-1sD4k/[email protected]
> > Subject: "qualitative" network software
> > Reply-To: "Robert T. Trotter, II"
> <robert.trotter-HBjXsy/[email protected]>
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> > Several ethnographic data management programs have been
> mentioned =20
> > (Atlas-ti, NUDIST, NVIVO, etc.). I would like to
> suggest another, =20
> > ANSWR, for the following reasons.
> > 1. It is free. You can download it from the CDC website
> (CDC.GOV) =20
> > and install it. It is also supported by CDC, and is
> used =20
> > internationally.
> http://www.cdcnpin.org/scripts/tools/software.asp
> > 2. It supports all of the functions that are supported
> by the other =20
> > ethnographic software programs (data entry, coding,
> search, and =20
> > output) and includes additional ones that may be
> particularly =20
> > useful for network analysis, including keeping track of
> who is =20
> > speaking, as well as what they are talking about. It
> allows you to =20
> > conduct some interesting matrix types of multiple code
> data output.
> > 3. It has a function that allows it to export some
> codes to =20
> > quantitative programs, which means that it can act as
> an =20
> > interesting bridge to quantitative network programs
> like UCINET, =20
> > PAJEK, etc.
> > 4. It is free.
> >
> > This is the CDC description of ANSWR. I have also added
> the =20
> > description of EZ Text, which some of you might be
> interested in if =20
> > you used open ended questions in surveys and
> questionnaires.
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> >
> > General Database Software
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> > AnSWR (Analysis Software for Word Based Records)
> <http://=20
> > www.cdc.gov/hiv/software/answr.htm>AnSWR v6.4 is a
> software system =20
> > for coordinating and conducting large-scale, team-based
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> > projects that integrate qualitative and quantitative
> techniques.
> > CDC EZ-Text
> <http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/software/ez-text.htm>CDC EZ-=20
> > Text is a software program developed to help
> researchers create, =20
> > manage, and analyze semi-structured qualitative
> databases.
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> >
> > Bob Trotter
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> On Dec 20, 2006, at 4:42 AM, Jonas Holmstr=F6m wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > I'm doing a qualitative study and a lot of my data is
> listserv and =20
> > e-mail communication.
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> > Does anyone know of any software that can be used for
> analyzing =20
> > listserv and e-mail communication?
> >
> > Most (all?) software used for qualitative studies are
> designed to =20
> > deal with transcripts of interviews and/or documents.
> >
> > If anyone has done some quantitative studies using
> listserv data I =20
> > would be interested in learning more about that as
> well.
> >
> > /Jonas Holmstr=F6m
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