Innovation and Virtual Environments: Towards Virtual Knowledge Brokers

By Gianmario Verona, Emanuela Prandelli, Mohanbir S. Sawhney. 2006

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Subfields: Communication, Strategy and Management

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Innovation intermediaries and collaboration: Knowledge–based practices and internal value creation (2018, unknown): “Innovation intermediaries have been characterised as organisations that generate value to other actors within a system of innovation (Sawhney et al., 2003; Verona et al., 2006; Nambisan and Sawhney, 2007; Arnold et al., 2010; Tran et al., 2011).”
“All for One and One for All?” - Knowledge broker roles in managing tensions of internal coopetition: The Ubisoft case (2019, background): “The neutral position of the TG as an independent and trustworthy third party that is not involved in the race for market shares or resource allocations helps to overcome units’ reluctance to adopt knowledge and innovative solutions from other units (Verona et al., 2006).”
Different Roles, Different Strokes: Organizing Virtual Customer Environments to Promote Two Types of Customer Contributions (2010, background): “Evidence from companies such as Audi, Ducati, Microsoft, Nokia, and Adidas-Salomon suggests that customer participation in VCEs offers important innovation-related benefits to the companies that host them (Fuller et al. 2006, Jeppesen and Molin 2003, Verona et al. 2006).”
Whom Should Firms Attract to Open Innovation Platforms? The Role of Knowledge Diversity and Motivation (2011, background): “As the Internet offers global accessibility and facilitates communication and interaction between contributors for a comparatively low cost, it has become one of the major drivers for new forms of inbound openness (e.g. Afuah, 2003; Verona et al., 2006).”
Building Member Attachment in Online Communities: Applying Theories of Group Identity and Interpersonal Bonds (2012, background): “…for organizations to connect with customers, employees, and business partners (Dellarocas 2006; Leidner et al. 2010), are sources of product innovation and customer support (El Sawy and Bowles 1997; Ogawa and Piller 2006), and serve as platforms for new business models (Verona et al. 2006).”