Brokerage functions in a virtual idea generation platform: Possibilities for collective creativity?

Exploring the Mechanisms through which Strong Ties Impact upon the Development of Ideas in SME Contexts

“…It is entirely possible that future work, operating with a different sampling frame, may find additional mechanisms through which strong ties affect the development of ideas in SME contexts. Such studies may suggest revisions to the mechanisms proposed here, but it is clear that the embeddedness of creativity within its social context (Anderson, Potočnik, and Zhou ; Breschi and Lenzi ; Catmull ; Csikszentmihalyi ; Davis and Scase ; George ; Hargadon and Bechky ; Harvey and Kou ; Parjanen, Hennala, and Konsti‐Laakso ; Perry‐Smith ; Perry‐Smith and Mannucci ; Woodman, Sawyer, and Griffin ; Zhou et al ) must not be underestimated.…”

“…Despite a rich literature covering the social nature of the creative idea (Anderson, Potočnik, and Zhou ; Breschi and Lenzi ; Catmull ; Csikszentmihalyi ; Davis and Scase ; George ; Hargadon and Bechky ; Harvey and Kou ; Parjanen, Hennala, and Konsti‐Laakso ; Perry‐Smith ; Perry‐Smith and Mannucci ; Woodman, Sawyer, and Griffin ; Zhou et al ), with strong ties known to contribute to the development of ideas (Hansen ; Kijkuit and van den Ende ), we, as a community of scholars, previously had limited information about the mechanisms through which these network ties affected the development of the creative idea within SME settings. This consequently limited the scope of our theorizations.…”

“…He notes that the “audience” is as important to the creative idea as the individual responsible for its development. Despite useful contributions such as these, a number of prominent thinkers argue that knowledge is lacking in this area (Anderson, Potočnik, and Zhou ; Hargadon and Bechky ; Harvey and Kou ; George ; Parjanen, Hennala, and Konsti‐Laakso ), with this paper particularly concerned with the underlying mechanisms explaining how and why strong network ties, and the content of those ties, facilitate the development of ideas.…”

“…Despite conceptualizing creativity as the output of an individual's intellectual thought processes (Shalley ), numerous authors consider how the creative process is influenced by the social context (Anderson, Potočnik, and Zhou ; Catmull ; Csikszentmihalyi ; Davis and Scase ; George ; Hargadon and Bechky ; Harvey and Kou ; Mumford ; Parjanen, Hennala, and Konsti‐Laakso ; Woodman, Sawyer, and Griffin ). It is known that our organizations must consider the context for creative work (Amabile et al ; Politis ), but tensions exist in the theories as to how social processes and networks create value for organizations (Gargiulo and Benassi ), with debates surrounding the varying roles of network ties.…”

Exploring the scope of open innovation: a bibliometric review of a decade of research

“…Many contributions focus on the motivation of users in participating in communities/platforms (Spaeth et al 2010;Frey et al 2011;Füller et al 2011;Battistella and Nonino 2012;Füller et al 2012), the identification of key participants (Fleming and Waguespack 2007;Fichter 2009) and the effects of users' contributions on contemporary platform development (Boudreau 2012). Other contributions present concrete cases to illustrate the frameworks and business models that have proven successful in benefitting from the contributions of users (Angehrn et al 2009;Ebner et al 2009;Hildrum 2009;Kohler et al 2009;Leimeister et al 2009;Lohmann et al 2009;Adenbanjo and Michaelides 2011;Basole and Karla 2011;De Couvreur and Goossens 2011;Faraj et al 2011;Hutter et al 2011;Kohler et al 2011;Tickle et al 2011;Bullinger et al 2012;Feller et al 2012;Parjanen et al 2012;Shu and Chuang 2012;Ye et al 2012). Finally, the remaining publications clarify the meaning of user communities (West and Lakhani 2008) and crowdsourcing (Marjanovic et al 2012), and position these concepts within the broader frame of collaborative innovation (Baldwin and von Hippel 2011) and the private-collective model of innovation (von Hippel and von Krogh 2006;Garriga et al 2012).…”