Opening Up the Strategy-Making Process: Comparing Open Strategy to Open Innovation

Open Innovation and Strategy

and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Appleyard received support from the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0438736. Jon Perr and Patrick Sullivan ably assisted with the interviews of Open Source Software leaders. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the above funding so...

A communication perspective on open strategy and open innovation

This paper presents a systematic analysis of the similarities and differences between the fields of open innovation and open strategy. In particular, we examine the concept of openness from a communication-centered perspective and compare processes of open innovation and open strategy with regard to the openness they exhibit. By distinguishing between openness in terms of sociality, factuality ...

Opening Up to Open Source

Opening Up Intellectual Property Strategy: Implications for Open Source Software Entry by Start-up Firms

W examine whether a firm’s intellectual property (IP) strategy in support of the open source software (OSS) community stimulates new OSS product entry by start-up software firms. In particular, we analyze the impact of strategic decisions taken by IBM around the mid-2000s, such as its announcement that it will not assert its patents against the OSS community and its creation of a patent commons...

Open architectural competition strategy: Google's approach to innovation through standardization

The realization and diffusion of web applications is the result of the HTML5 standard. Google succeeded in making HTML5 the W3C standard by attracting end users and other browser vendors. Google had utilized open technology developed by other stakeholders, and outside activities for the purpose of realizing and diffusing web application innovation. They supported collaborative development activ...