THE FREEDOM-FIGHTERS: HOW INCUMBENT CORPORATIONS ARE ATTEMPTING TO CONTROL USER-INNOVATION

被引：14

作者：

Braun, Viktor ^{[1
]}

Herstatt, Cornelius ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] MIT, Sloan Sch Management, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

[2] Hamburg Univ Technol, Inst Technol & Innovat Management, Hamburg, Germany

来源：

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INNOVATION MANAGEMENT | 2008年 / 12卷 / 03期

关键词：

Open-innovation; sources of innovation; user-innovation;

D O I：

10.1142/S1363919608002059

中图分类号：

C93 [管理学];

学科分类号：

12 ; 1201 ; 1202 ; 120202 ;

摘要：

Novel information and communication technologies, foremost the Internet, have revolutionised the innovation landscape. Mass-collaboration involving end-users is now, a critical component of many types of software improvement and has the potential to make users as the main innovation source of the 21st century. The vision of democratising innovation is not, however, in everybody's interest. Many incumbent corporations are actively engaging in efforts to prevent users from modifying and improving their products. In this paper, we investigate the barriers that incumbents impose upon potentially innovative users and ask under which conditions such behaviours are likely to be sustainable.

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页码：543 / 572

页数：30