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- Gangi, Paul M Di, et al.
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Nya former av entreprenörskap–exempel från internet
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In: Socialmedicinsk Tidskrift. - 0037-833X. ; 90:2, s. 261-267
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Nätverk som arbetar med öppen källkod, där deltagare från hela världen organiserar sig helt frivilligt via Internet-baserade plattformar, för att gemensamt utveckla produkter och tjänster blir allt vanligare i en mängd olika branscher, såsom programvaruutveckling, jordbruksutrustning, bilar etc. Vår forskning visar - något oväntat - att de enskilda entreprenörerna är en drivande kraft inom dessa nätverk. Dessa individer är aktivt engagerade i byggandet av olika former av kapital, då de utvecklar och delar med sig av sina idéer och immateriella rättigheter till andra, inklusive konkurrenter. Vi föreslår begreppet "öppet entreprenörskap" för att beskriva denna process. Medan öppet entreprenörskap utvecklas över hela världen tack vara internet är frågan i vilken utsträckning den väletablerade vinstdrivande företagsmodellen kommer att fortsätta att dominera ekonomin i framtiden.
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- Ingram Bogusz, Claire, et al.
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Crowdfunding among IT Entrepreneurs in Sweden
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Executive Summary Background. This report is the result of a study commissioned in 2013 by. SE-The Swedish Internet Infrastructure Foundation around how entrepreneurs, and in particular IT entrepreneurs, have responded to the increased availability of crowdfunding in Sweden. Much of the focus in international and regional studies has been on making crowdfunding attractive for potential funders, assuming that it is inherently attractive to would- be entrepreneurs.
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- Lippert, Marcus, 1974-
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Communities in the Digital Age : Towards a Theoretical Model of Communities of Practice and Information Technology
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The global change towards a knowledge economy forces organizations to seek new and better ways to manage knowledge work and learning. Organizations have recognized that dfferent information technologies can play an important role in their quest to make the desired changes take place. Along with this increasing interest in information technologies we have also noticed a growing interest in a specific type of community, referred to as communities of practice (CoP). A considerable body of research that studies communities of practice in relation to IT continues to grow. Despite this we are far from a theoretical model of the relation between communities of practice and IT that may guide future research and understanding in a fruitful way.The basis for this thesis are the lack of a theoretical model to describe a dialectical relation between communities of practice and information technologies and how these relations come into being. The purpose of this thesis and research study is to contribute to existing theories of communities of practice by developing a theoretical model of a dialectical relation between information technology and communities of practice. In line with this, the study addresses the following research question How do a community of practice and information technology constitute and shape each other? Furthermore, the research study adheres to an interpretative philosophy, a qualitative research design, and longitudinal research case study conducted at Siemens Sweden.This research study was divided in two parts. Part One presented the theoretical chapters and a theoretical working model, referred to as the CoPIT model (Community of Practice model of Information Technology). In Part Two the initial CoPIT model was confronted with empirical data and used to analyze and illustrate the relation between CoP and IT. The main conclusion drawn from the research study is that the CoPIT model makes sense and is relevant, and also that the general principles upon which it is founded hold true. Furthermore, from the empirical confrontation of the CoPIT model we can draw the conclusion that relations exist both between IT in general and the CoP component’s specific constructs and between CoP in general and the IT component’s specific constructs. These key findings validate the point of departure of this study that there is a dialectical relation between CoP and IT, and that they mutually constitute each other over time.
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- Teigland, Robin, et al.
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Breaking Out of the Bank in Europe - Exploring Collective Emergent Institutional Entrepreneurship Through Bitcoin
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In: SSRN Electronic journal. - : Elsevier BV. - 1556-5068.
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In recent years, the Bitcoin community has collectively developed an open source platform that allows for the mining of the Bitcoin currency as well as instant global peer-to-peer payments and financial transactions using Bitcoins - without any central authority. With its theoretical roots in the Austrian School of Economics, the community can be seen as a potential threat to the mega financial institutions and governments in Europe and across the globe as the Bitcoin currency and its underlying principles challenge the long-standing fiat money system. Designed and implemented in only 2009, Bitcoin has rapidly grown from being an idea in the head of a “Japanese programmer” to becoming a legitimate currency as Bitcoin-Central was awarded an International Bank ID number and became a Payment Services Provider equal to organizations such as PayPal. However, perhaps due to its rapid growth during the past four years and the fact that the currency is primarily a virtual one, the Bitcoin community has been subject to external threats such as fraud, hacker attacks, and a lawsuit. Despite this, the community has shown significant resilience and has even shown continued exponential growth in recent months. As such, our research purpose is to investigate the process through which the Bitcoin community acts as an institutional entrepreneur. As a first step in fulfilling our research purpose, we conduct an exploratory analysis in this research-in-progress paper of the formal and informal “organizations” of Bitcoin as well as of the topical network structure of the Bitcoin community using secondary sources and the complete archive of 1.15 million English posts written by 21,903 members between 2009 and 2013. Some preliminary results and findings as well as future steps are discussed.
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- Teigland, Robin, et al.
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Transactive memory systems as a collective filter for mitigating information overload in digitally enabled organizational groups
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In: Information and Organization. - : Elsevier. - 1471-7727. ; 23:3, s. 177-197
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- With the increasing processing power and plummeting costs of information and communication technologies, the ability of employees to ubiquitously access and disseminate information grows. However, emerging research shows that individuals are struggling to process information as fast as it arrives. The problem of information overload is a significant one for contemporary knowledge-intensive organizations because it can adversely affect productivity, decision making, and employee morale. To combat this problem, organizations often invest in technical solutions such as business intelligence software or semantic technologies. While such technical approaches can certainly aid in reducing information overload, less attention has been directed at understanding how collective behavior, and in particular transactive memory systems, might enhance the ability of organizations to cope with information overload. In this study, we ask whether (and, if so, how do) transactive memory systems act as a collective filter to enable organizational groups to mitigate the potential for information overload. We used social network analysis and interview evidence from the R&D departments of two high-technology firms in the life science industry and found that individuals spontaneously organized without any centralized control to create a collective filter. For example, we found that one set of individuals specialized in filtering external information into the group while another set specialized in filtering that information for internal use. We conclude by discussing the theoretical and practical implications of our findings.
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