The CC Model as Organizational Design Striving to Combine Relevance and Rigor (2007)
Andrea Back, Georg Vonkrogh, Ellen Enkel
This paper addresses the design problem of ensuring engaged researchs rigorous relevance and, especially, its implications regarding the engaged researchers role. As a theoretical background, this...
Navigating a Path to Smart Growth (2007)
Georg Vonkrogh, Sebastian Raisch
How fast should a company grow? This question is fundamental to managerial practice, and it is difficult to answer. On the one hand, companies need to grow to remain vital and competitive. On the...
El camino del crecimiento inteligente (2007)
Sebastian Raisch, Georg Vonkrogh
¿A qué velocidad debería crecer una empresa? Ésta es una pregunta fundamental para la práctica empresarial, pero no tiene fácil respuesta. Por una parte, las empresas tienen que crecer para...
Knowledge Networks for Business Growth (2006)
Andrea Back, Ellen Enkel, Georg Vonkrogh
Companies are constantly searching for new ways of creating higher profit and a larger market share. Growth seems to be the most appropriate tactic for surviving economical difficult times....
The Concept of Knowledge Networks for Growth (2006)
Ellen Enkel, Georg Vonkrogh, Andrea Back
This article illustrates our concept of knowledge networks for growth, i.e. social networks that support companies growth strategy by their ability to share and create knowledge. We adapted the...
Andreas Seufert, Ellen Enkel, Jörg Raimann, Stefanos Vassiliadis, Yvonne Wicki, Georg Vonkrogh, ...
The concepts and theories of knowledge management and networks are about to become well documented. Yet there are few, if any, guidelines on how to implement knowledge management within an...
Community, joining and specialization in open source software innovation: A case study (2003)
Georg Vonkrogh, Sebastian Spaeth, Karim Lakhani
This paper develops an inductive theory of the open source software (OSS) innovation process by focussing on the creation of Freenet, a project aimed at developing a decentralized and anonymous...
Special Issue on Open Source Software Development - Editorial (2003)
Georg Vonkrogh, Eric Von Hippel
This special issue of Research Policy is dedicated to new research on the phenomenon of open source software development. Open Source, because of its novel modes of operation and robust functioning...
Georg Vonkrogh, Eric Von Hippel
Currently, two models of innovation are prevalent in organization science. The "private investment" model assumes returns to the innovator result from private goods and efficient regimes of...
Georg Vonkrogh, Stefan Haefliger, Sebastian Spaeth
Building on resource mobilization theory, we explore three distinct rewards for individuals to engage in innovative collective action, namely open source Software development. The three benefits, we...
Making the Most of Your Company's Knowledge: A Strategic Framework (2001)
Georg Vonkrogh, Manfred Aben, I. Nonaka
This paper develops a framework of four strategies for managing knowledge. Companies can leverage their knowledge throughout the organisation, expand their knowledge further based on existing...
Development Aspects and Supportive Factors in Knowledge Networks (2000)
M. Köhne, Ellen Enkel, Andreas Seufert, Andrea Back, Georg Vonkrogh
Supporting Business Processes through Knowledge Management ? A Technology-based Analysis (2000)
Jörg Raimann, Ellen Enkel, Andreas Seufert, Andrea Back, Georg Vonkrogh
Care in Knowledge Creation (1998)
Knowledge creation is the key source of innovation in any company. However, it is a fragile process fraught with uncertainty and conflict of interest. The effective creation of new knowledge...
Der Wissenstransfer in Unternehmen: Phasen des Wissenstransfers und wichtige Einflussfaktoren (1998)
Der Erfolg von Unternehmen wird künftig immer stärker davon abhängen, inwiefern diese in der Lage sind, Wissen zu generieren und intern zu transferieren. So ist der interne Wissenstransfer...
A Tale of the Unfinished (1996)
Building on the work of Prahalad and Bettis, a dialogue for further understanding of the concept of dominant logic is generated. The conceptual plasticity of dominant logic is demonstrated. Two...