Platform, Participation, and Power: How Dominant and Minority Stakeholders Shape Agricultural Innovation

Industrialization and Dominant-Minority Relations

Minority Representation, Empowerment, and Participation

According to the minority empowerment thesis, minority representation strengthens representational links, fosters more positive attitudes toward government, and encourages political participation. We examine this theory from a cross-national perspective, making use of surveys that sampled minorities in the United States and New Zealand. Both countries incorporate structures into their electoral...

Intermittent Participation: How Sociability and Usability Shape Mediated Mobile Interaction

Mobile devices are common communication tools, which deeply affect social engagement practices. Smart-mobile devices move beyond voice and textual communication: they enable ubiquitous online connectivity, and bring changes to mediated social interaction. In this paper we bring the results of a study of the meditated social practices of students who use smart mobile devices on a university camp...

How Do Community Ecology and Structure Shape Digital Innovation Strategy?

Pondering whether, when, and how to innovate with digital technologies, managers are navigating a complex and dynamic landscape. To help with this challenging undertaking, we draw on organizational ecology and network theories to conceptualize the organizational communities that support digital innovations. Empirically, we analyzed news articles about Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and ...

Minority dissent and team innovation: the importance of participation in decision making.

This study integrates research on minority dissent and individual creativity, as well as team diversity and the quality of group decision making, with research on team participation in decision making. From these lines of research, it was proposed that minority dissent would predict innovation in teams but only when teams have high levels of participation in decision making. This hypothesis was...