Sub-theme 46: Open Organizations for an Open Society? Practicing Openness in Innovation, Strategy and Beyond

Convenors:
Leonhard Dobusch, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Georg von Krogh, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Richard Whittington, Oxford University, UK
Session I: Thursday, July 02, 11:00 to 12:30, COM-2115
Varieties of Openness and Openness in General
Chair: Leonhard Dobusch
Markus Kowalski, Anja Schröder, Gordon Müller-Seitz and Timo Braun
Organizational openness: Managing different forms of openness
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Markus Kowalski
Natalia Levina, Anne-Laure Fayard and Emmanouil Gkeredakis
The voice of ideas: Understanding impact of diverse modes of open innovation
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Natalia Levina
Session II: Thursday, July 02, 14:00 to 15:30, COM-2115
Openness in Innovation and Strategy
Chair: Maha Shaikh
Brian Litchfield-Cant
If planning is open to everyone, what do we need strategic planners for?
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Brian Litchfield-Cant
Eric Knight, Andrew Sturdy and Joe O'Mahoney
Structuring strategy? CSOs, temporality and agency
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Eric Knight
Felicia Fai, Uta Morgenstern and Anthony Roath
'Born open' firms – The proposition of a new concept
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Felicia Fai, Uta Morgenstern, Anthony Roath
Session III: Thursday, July 02, 16:00 to 17:30, COM-2115
Open Identity and Identity of Openness
Chair: Eric Knight
Migle Malinovskyte, Caroline Mothe and Charles-Clemens Rüling
Becoming innovation intermediaries: Identity aspirations under institutional complexity
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Caroline Mothe
Mekki MacAulay and Jean-Baptiste Litrico
Open identification: How meta-organizations embrace and leverage identity ambiguity
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Mekki MacAulay
Marco Tonellato and Guido Conaldi
Explaining participation in open productions: The role of identity specialization and repeated collaboration
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Marco Tonellato
Session IV: Friday, July 03, 09:00 to 10:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: Space(s) for Openness - Room: COM-2115
Chair: Richard Whittington
Matthew Mount and Nuran Acur
The role of collaborative crowdsourcing technology in driving individual-level ambidexterity
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Matthew Mount
Olivier Irrmann, Harri Paananen and Otso Hannula
Openness in creative hubs: The interplay of spatial, social and activity affordances in collaborative spaces
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Olivier Irrmann, Harri Paananen
Jochem T. Hummel, Philipp Tuertscher and Hans Berends
Dimensions of openness in innovation processes: Exploring the connection between openness of system architectures and openness of knowledge flows
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Jochem Hummel, Philipp Tuertscher, Hans Berends
Parallel Stream B: Open Innovation around Hardware - Room: PIERCE-627
Chair: Georg von Krogh
Altair Marroquin Cruz
On appropriability strategies for open organizations
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Altair Marroquin Cruz
Jan-Peter Ferdinand and Uli Meyer
Heterogeneous innovation ecosystems: Community-firm relations in distributed innovation processes
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Jan-Peter Ferdinand, Uli Meyer
Franziska Miebach, Vera Blazevic and Frank Thomas Piller
Openness as cultural shift: How employees react to open innovation initiatives
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Franziska Miebach
Session V: Friday, July 03, 14:00 to 15:30, COM-2115
Focus on Practicing Openness
Chair: Loizos Heracleous
ole Friis
Openness in strategy: Social strategy practices and practitioner interaction
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Ole Friis
Sarah Browne, Pamela Sharkey Scott and Vincent Mangematin
Ownership for openness in strategy implementation
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Sarah Browne
Daniel Curto-Millet
The being multiple: The becoming of an open source project
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Daniel Curto-Millet
Session VI: Saturday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: Open Innovation as Collaboration - Room: COM-2115
Chair: Natalia Levina
Maha Shaikh
Penguins on a magnetic leash: Company control of communities
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Maha Shaikh
Fang He, Christian Gersdorf and Georg von Krogh
What glues it all together? The role of leadership and goal orientation in multi-boundary teams
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Fang He
Paper by Kathleen Diener is replaced by the paper "Integrating external knowledge at the organizational boundaries:
A knowledge-as-practice approach to open innovation", to be presented by Georg Reischauer
Parallel Stream B: Managing Open (Data) Communities - Room: PIERCE-627
Chair: Jean-Baptiste Litrico
Maximilian Heimstädt and Leonhard Dobusch
Openness as institutional boundary work: The case of open data in Berlin
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Maximilian Heimstädt
Basak Yakis-Douglas and Timothy Hannigan
Rumors as contributors to openness in organizations
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Basak Yakis-Douglas
Héloïse Berkowitz and Kévin Herlem
Open data governance in a big data context: Evidence from the case of oceanography
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Heloise A. Berkowitz
Session VII: Saturday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, COM-2115
Dialogue on Openness: Discourse and Closure
Chair: Leonhard Dobusch
Loizos Heracleous, Julia Goesswein and Philippe Beaudette
Open strategy-making at the Wikimedia Foundation: A dialogic perspective
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Loizos Heracleous
Paul Ellwood and Krsto Pandza
Addressing the challenges of cooperation and coordination in complex innovation environments: Narratives of openness
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Paul Ellwood, Krsto Pandza
Amanda J. Porter, Philipp Tuertscher and Marleen Huysman
Coping with complexity: Connections and breakdowns in distributed crowdsourcing
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Amanda Porter