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
By Henry Lopez-Vega and Nicolette Lakemond The rise and downfall of well-known EMNEs has raised interest in understanding how these firms build and destroy innovation capabilities. Even though investments in R&D, manufacturing, and acquisition of global innovation capabilities played a … Continue reading Open and nonmarket strategies for innovation capability building in emerging markets
By Sarah Steimer Open, diversified and large networks are known to spur innovation at companies, but managers may discourage their development when they implement pay-for-performance incentives. These plans — which typically rely on short-term and quantitative performance metrics — actually … Continue reading Considering Pay-for-Performance Incentives? You May Put Innovation at Risk
by Matt Marx and Aaron Fuegi Understanding the scientific heritage of innovation has been an objective of scholars for decades. Where do inventions come from? How is academic research translated into commercial products? For the past quarter century, researchers have used … Continue reading Reliance on Science in Patenting – a New Dataset (Open Access)
by Esther Leibel Do skilled ethnic migrants steal jobs from local skilled workers? According to Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury and Do Yoon Kim, this question may originate from a flawed assumption—that domestic and foreign workers carry equal skills, and are essentially interchangeable. Yet, evidence from their recently accepted SMJ paper reveals that foreign and domestic workers differ in the knowledge they carry, as well as in their ability to recombine such knowledge. In “The Ethnic Migrant Inventor Effect: Codification and Recombination of Knowledge Across Borders Firms,” Choudhury and Kim suggest that firms hiring skilled ethnic migrants may benefit twice—first, they can access … Continue reading A Strategy Contribution to the Immigration Debate
