Incomplete by Design and Designing for Incompleteness

By Raghu Garud, Sanjay Jain, Philipp Tuertscher. 2008

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Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction

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Digital Technologies as External Enablers of New Venture Creation in the IT Hardware Sector (2018, background): “Digital technologies have been characterized in several ways (e.g., Ekbia, 2009; Kallinikos, Aaltonen, & Marton, 2013; Nambisan, 2016), but common to these portrayals is a focus on their ambivalent ontology (Garud, Jain, & Tuertscher, 2008; Kallinikos et al., 2013).”
Growing on Steroids: Rapidly Scaling the User Base of Digital Ventures Through Digital Innovation (2017, background): “Understanding scaling as a generative process, rather than as a self-referential process, pays heed to the fact that digital technology is typically “designed without fully knowing the “whole” design” (Yoo 2013, p. 230; see also Garud et al. 2008).”
Embracing Digital Innovation in Incumbent Firms: How Volvo Cars Managed Competing Concerns (2017, background): “It is rarely guided by a long-term vision, because products and services are inherently unbounded (Yoo 2013) and incomplete (Garud et al. 2008).”
Perspective: Linking Design Thinking with Innovation Outcomes through Cognitive Bias Reduction (2015, background): “After studying new organizational forms such as Wikipedia and Linux, Garud, Jain, and Tuertscher (2008) argue that the nature of uncertainty in the environment necessitates a kind of “generative engagement” of users in which “the distinction between designers and users has blurred, resulting in the…”
Entrepreneurial innovation: The importance of context (2014, background): “Many authors claim that technology platforms are growing to exercise an increasingly important influence on firm-level innovative activity (Garud et al., 2008).”
Action Design Research (2011, background): “…the preliminary design (see Principle 2) created by the researchers but also its ongoing shaping by organizational use, perspectives, and participants (see Garud et al. 2008; Iivari 2003) (see Principles 3 and 4 respectively), and by outcomes of authentic, concurrent evaluation (see Principle 5).”
The Role of Analogy in the Institutionalization of Sustainability Reporting (2010, background): “Perhaps, like CERES and the GRI, a successful institutional entrepreneur must relinquish centralized control over its institution - steering and guiding the institution as it develops, but not imposing a definitive design (O´Mahony and Ferraro, 2007; Garud et al, 2008).”
Service Innovation in the Digital Age: Key Contributions and Future Directions (2015, result): “…have been described as having an ambivalent ontology (Kallinikos et al. 2013), being intentionally incomplete and perpetually in the making (Garud et al. 2008; Zittrain 2008) and having a number of attributes depicted in the literature in similar yet distinctive ways (Faulkner and Runde…”