The last decades have witnessed a significant shift in the orientation towards users in management, design, and innovation research. “Science discovers, technology applies, man conforms,” the motto of the 1933 Chicago World Fair, was for long the received view on the design–use relationship. The linear model of innovation was the norm in textbooks up until the 1980s. Its legacy is still strong....

Open source processes have attracted considerable attention recently. The underlying motivation for this surging interest is strikingly varied. Open source is not so much a precisely defined and delineated topic as an evolving, intrinsically ambiguous phenomenon. From a marginal, esoteric interest around ‘hacker’ sub-cultures (Turkle, 1985; Hannemyr, 1999), open source is emerging as a theme wi...

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