New Forms of Collaborative Innovation and Production on the Internet: an interdisciplinary perspective (original) (raw)

Collaborative production, associated with terms such as co-creation and crowdsourcing, are buzzwords in both innovation practices in industry, as well as in the study of innovation. The notions of user-centric innovation and open innovation have been widely studied in management science by scholars such as Eric von Hippel, Yochai Benkler, and Henry Chesbrough in the contexts of open source software production, open business models, and knowledge creation. This edited volume, New Forms of Collaborative Innovation and Production on the Internet: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, provides a timely and useful overview to co-production in innovation processes in companies, and in knowledge co-creation on sites such as Wikipedia. The book sheds light on co-production from several perspectives, with the foci of inquiry ranging from motivating factors for participation, to trust and reputation in online interactions, and management of online communities. The common denominator is the customer’s active role, or, rather the “prosumer’s”, the term used to describe the hybrid combination of the roles of a consumer and producer that comes with collaborative production. This volume examines the user within a networked web of decentralized, voluntary co-production of goods, services, and knowledge.