Digital platforms that aggregate products and services, such as Google Shop** or
Amazon, have emerged as powerful intermediaries to brand offerings, challenging …

Online communities frequently create significant economic and relational value for
community participants and beyond. It is widely accepted that the underlying source of such …

Creative information technology usage by employees is the critical link between business
technology investments and competitive advantage in a digital economy. However, to …

Open Source Software (OSS) has changed drastically over the last decade, with OSS
projects now producing a large ecosystem of popular products, involving industry …

Ecosystems are increasingly recognized as crucial for the success of a firm's innovation
strategy and business model. They are also a topic attracting increasing academic interest …

How should digital platforms engage with and invest in their online communities to shape
innovation and knowledge contributions from members in their platform ecosystems? This is …

Organizations build strategic alliances with other firms with the intent of tap** into partners'
resources and capturing long-term value from these relationships. Such partnerships are …

Emerging digital technologies give rise to digital entrepreneurship and the widespread
phenomenon of open source collaboration (OSC) on GitHub for entrepreneurial pursuits …

In the scholarly discussion of inbound innovation, open innovation approaches for how
private companies (PCs) can collaborate with grassroots‐driven open communities (GOCs) …

Obsessive online social gaming has become a worldwide societal challenge that deserves
more scholarly investigation. However, this issue has not received much attention in the …