User community innovation : implications for firm strategy, organizing and performance
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Community-based innovation has recently emerged as a focal point of research on strategy and innovation. Scholars have argued that communities have several advantages over firms, such that managers must increasingly consider how to best compete and collaborate with this unique organizational form. Extant empirical work provides significant insight. However, it remains unclear how and when firms benefit from user community-based innovation. Across three tightly-linked papers, this dissertation addresses this gap. The first is a comprehensive review of prior work that studies user communities as they relate to firm strategy and performance. The second paper is a comparative case study of innovation by two civilian drone ventures—one that organized as a community, the other that organized as a firm. Finally, using a novel panel dataset of 2,586 video game development projects, the third paper develops and tests theory on whether firms can improve performance via learning from communities. Together, these papers contribute several interrelated findings to literature on firm strategy, organization theory and user community innovation, as well as several insights for management practice
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2020; ©2020 |
| Publication date | 2020; 2020 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Bremner, Robert Peter |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Eisenhardt, Kathleen M |
| Thesis advisor | Eisenhardt, Kathleen M |
| Thesis advisor | Eesley, Charles |
| Thesis advisor | Katila, Riitta |
| Degree committee member | Eesley, Charles |
| Degree committee member | Katila, Riitta |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Management Science and Engineering. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Robert Bremner |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Management Science and Engineering |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2020 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2020 by Robert Peter Bremner
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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