Digital Innovation, Entrepreneurship and New Business Models
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Complete
Paper Number
1117
Description
How can formal organizations and open communities engage in mutually beneficial relationships? We develop a framework that explains how an open community’s engagement with a formal organization can be mutually beneficial to both in the long-term. We theorize how a symbiotic relationship between open communities and formal organizations can be forged by nurturing various forms of capital flow between them as well as creating virtuous feedback loops within and across each other’s capital creation systems. The framework has implications for understanding innovation in ecosystems and networked economies.
Recommended Citation
Skousen, Tanner; Safadi, Hani; and Watson, Rick, "Open Communities and Formal Organizations: A Symbiosis View" (2020). ICIS 2020 Proceedings. 1.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2020/digital_innovation/digital_innovation/1
Open Communities and Formal Organizations: A Symbiosis View
How can formal organizations and open communities engage in mutually beneficial relationships? We develop a framework that explains how an open community’s engagement with a formal organization can be mutually beneficial to both in the long-term. We theorize how a symbiotic relationship between open communities and formal organizations can be forged by nurturing various forms of capital flow between them as well as creating virtuous feedback loops within and across each other’s capital creation systems. The framework has implications for understanding innovation in ecosystems and networked economies.
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