Abstract
The traditional resource-based view (RBV) accentuates the heterogeneous and imperfect mobile resources serve as key determinants of the competitiveness of organizations. However, social capital theory seems to be advocated leveraging the resources residing in the relationships among individuals to facilitate the organizational performances. The open innovation product, i.e., an Open Source Software (OSS) project or an user-centric software like mobile application, consists of a group of self-organizing individuals who collaboratively co-create an innovation. Much of our understandings of OSS an open innovation is based on studies that focused on the internal resources (i.e., on the co-workers predominantly) leaving little regards to the fact that such an open innovation organization functions in a larger community of projects and people. In this regard, it is imperative to jointly build upon the RBV and social capital theory to take a broader, embracing investigation of an open innovation, i.e. open source software (OSS), system to unveil how internal and external resources can facilitate the innovation legitimacy. In particular, the internal resources include the tangible resources, such as workforce and extent of contribution, and intangible resource like governance structure. The external resources include diverse forms of social capital, such as structural, cognitive, and relational social capital. This ongoing work proposed a theoretical framework to articulate how the interplay between internal and external resources can promote the innovation legitimacy.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Information Systems : Transforming the Future |
Editors | Hepu Deng, Craig Standing |
Place of Publication | Melbourne |
Publisher | RMIT University |
Publication date | 2013 |
Pages | 1-11 |
Publication status | Published - 2013 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | Australasian Conference on Information Systems. ACIS 2013 - RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Duration: 4 Dec 2013 → 6 Dec 2013 Conference number: 24 http://www.rmit.edu.au/acis2013 |
Conference
Conference | Australasian Conference on Information Systems. ACIS 2013 |
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Number | 24 |
Location | RMIT University |
Country | Australia |
City | Melbourne |
Period | 04/12/2013 → 06/12/2013 |
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Bibliographical note
CBS Library does not have access to the materialKeywords
- Open innovative products
- Resource-based view
- Social capital theory