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    Classifying Motivations in Social Product Development Networks: a Discriminant Analysis of Actor Profiles

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    This study develops a classification model to predict social actors’ co-innovation behavior in social product development (SPD) networks based on motivational differences. The study first identifies motivations for actors to continuously participate in co-innovation activities. Then, three discriminant functions are developed and cross-validated to classify actor groups, based on their level of willingness to participate in three types of behaviors: ideation, collaboration, and socialization. The results indicate that financial gains, entrepreneurship, and learning are significant predictors of ideation behaviors. Enjoyment and learning are strong indicators of collaboration, whereas networking, enjoyment, and altruism are most strongly related to socialization behaviors. These findings highlight three classes of SPD actors (Ideators, Collaborators, and Networkers) based on motivational differences. These classes provide a theoretically parsimonious model to predict the co-innovation behaviors in SPD and highlight the importance of platform design to appeal to different classes of potential contributors

    How collaborative innovation and co-creation can deliver value: a stakeholder approach

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    This project explores how collaborative innovation and co-creation between stakeholders can deliver value for firms. In today’s increasingly competitive and fast-changing global marketplace, firms must seek to develop more frequent and higher quality innovations (Ngugi et al, 2010). In addition, customers, employees and other stakeholders are demanding opportunities to co-create and collaborate with businesses more and more. As Ramaswamy (2010) comments: “Providers of products and services are challenged by customers who are increasingly informed, connected, networked and empowered. Customers, employees and stakeholders are demanding higher quality interactions and experiences from businesses and a deeper engagement in the value-creation and service delivery processes” (Ramaswamy, 2010, pp. 22). Given this increasing need to collaborate, innovate and co-create, firms need a better understanding of how they can engage in these activities in a way that maximises the value created for all stakeholders; this project, through exploratory, qualitative research interviews and a wide-ranging literature review, seeks to make a contribution in this area

    Why do commercial companies contribute to open source software?

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    This is the post-print version of the Article. The official published version can be accessed from the link belowMany researchers have pointed out that the opensource movement is an interesting phenomenon that is difficult to explain with conventional economic theories. However, while there is no shortage on research on individuals’ motivation for contributing to opensource, few have investigated the commercial companies’ motivations for doing the same. A case study was conducted at three different companies from the IT service industry, to investigate three possible drivers: sale of complimentary services, innovation and open sourcing (outsourcing). We offer three conclusions. First, we identified three main drivers for contributing to opensource, which are (a) selling complimentary services, (b) building greater innovative capability and (c) cost reduction through open sourcing to an external community. Second, while previous research has documented that the most important driver is selling complimentary services, we found that this picture is too simple. Our evidence points to a broader set of motivations, in the sense that all our cases exhibit combinations of the three drivers. Finally, our findings suggest that there might be a shift in how commercial companies view opensource software. The companies interviewed have all expressed a moral obligation to contribute to open source

    Case: MaaS Global Whim app

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    Platform business model has disrupted and transformed industries around the world. It allows organizations to revolutionize their value chains and tap into a diverse pool of external players, resulting in accelerated innovation and value creation. Platform business has extended beyond technology-driven industries to more traditional and less digital ones. This study examines how platform could reshape the traditional transportation industry, using the case study of Mobiliy-as- a-Service (MaaS) – an innovative mobility ecosystem that integrates various transport modes and offers them as a mobility service package via one interface. The ability to attract participants is vital to a platform’s success. This overarching purpose of this study is to understand what motivates different stakeholders, such as public and private transport service providers, to join a MaaS platform and how a MaaS operator (the platform owner) could attract them to its ecosystem to improve urban transport. The empirical research was conducted as an intensive embedded single case study, focusing on the MaaS ecosystem in the Helsinki capital region (MaaS Global Oy/Whim app). Research data was collected through ten semi-structured interviews with the founder of MaaS Global and representatives of public and private transport service providers. Data analysis followed standard steps of qualitative content analysis, including transcription, within-interview analysis, cross- interview analysis, and synthesis. Moreover, the research findings were reviewed against existing literature to improve quality and validity of the findings. The research concludes that the motivations of platform participants are mostly extrinsic and include both monetary and non-monetary types of motivation. The motivations can be categorized under four main themes: financial gains, reputation and credibility, learning benefits, and social contribution. Additionally, the findings also demonstrate that a platform owner can leverage four facilitating drivers to influence platform participation: expected rewards, a sense of autonomy, a sense of competence and a sense of relatedness. In practical terms, a strong business case with clear financial gains is vital to attract platform participants. Furthermore, the platform should be perceived as transparent and fair, which includes clear pricing and earning logic, and clear decision rights, procedures and data exchange. Finally, supporting resources regarding technical integration, such as testing and toolkits, are also considered as important in facilitating platform participation

    Understanding civic crowdfunding as a mechanism for leveraging civic engagement and urban innovation

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    This article studies the emergence of government-initiated civic crowdfunding platforms. Such platforms can be considered as governmental responses for bottom-up peer-to-peer support mechanisms related to urban innovation, which also allows top-down governance and governmental support systems for civic entrepreneurship. To better understand the implications of these innovative ICT-enabled interaction interfaces for collective urban innovation, this study investigates participation inequalities from the perspective of campaign instigators, using in-depth interviews (N=28), and from the perspective of the citizen-funder, using a survey (N=265). The analysis shows that urban crowdfunding practices mainly contribute to higher-level development of collective identities with increased neighborhood capacities. Although participation in such ICT-enabled interaction interfaces could reinforce digital inequalities and existing power balances, this research shows a more nuanced perspective, in which online and offline practices intertwine. Furthermore, while civic crowdfunding campaigns are driven by a traditional ‘participation elite’, the deliberation process on development projects involves new publics that are not typically engaged in civic activities. Hence, civic crowdfunding formulates a new mode of civic engagement in which institutional involvement acts as a trust broker between civic funders and civic entrepreneurs, as well as adding legitimacy to innovation processes in the public sphere
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