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Governing crowdsourcing for unconstrained innovation problems

By Michael A. Zaggl, Arvind Malhotra, Oliver Alexy, Ann Majchrzak Crowdsourcing is a popular innovation method for problem-solving. To use crowdsourcing successfully, firms often constrain their problems by narrowing the problem formulation and thus pre-specifying the problem. The constraining sets a focus for the crowd’s … Continue reading Governing crowdsourcing for unconstrained innovation problems

How to nurture and develop your ecosystem: Insights for ecosystem architects

What insights does strategy research offer to practitioners interested in nurturing the creation and ongoing development of a range of different types of ecosystems? In our introduction to an SMS Collection, we distill relevant findings and outline four strategies for … Continue reading How to nurture and develop your ecosystem: Insights for ecosystem architects

How Firms Take Advantage of Pollution Havens through Global Sourcing

By Heather Berry, Aseem Kaul and Narae Lee The pollution haven effect—firms taking advantage of lax environmental standards in foreign countries by shifting their manufacturing activities there—has been extensively documented in both economics and management as governments and firms consider … Continue reading How Firms Take Advantage of Pollution Havens through Global Sourcing