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Item Open Access Determinants of Success of the Open Source Selective Revealing Strategy: Solution Knowledge Emergence(2018-11-21) MacAulay Abdelwahab, Mekki Robert; Auster, Ellen R.Recent research suggests that firms may be able to create a competitive advantage by deliberately revealing specific problem knowledge beyond firm boundaries to open source meta-organisations such that new solution knowledge is created that benefits the focal firm more than its competitors (Alexy, George, & Salter, 2013). Yet, not all firms that use knowledge revealing strategies are successful in inducing the emergence of solution knowledge. The extant literature has as of yet not explained this heterogeneity in success of knowledge revealing strategies. Using a longitudinal database spanning the period from 1998 to end 2012 with more than 2 billion data points that was obtained from the Mozilla Foundation, one of the top open source meta-organisations, this dissertation identifies and measures the antecedent factors affecting successful solution knowledge emergence. The results reveal 35 antecedent factors that affect solution knowledge emergence in different ways across three levels of analysis. The numerous contributions to theory and practice that follow from the results are discussed.Item Open Access Radical Institutional Innovation: A Multilevel Framework(2016-09-20) Basir, Nada; Auster, Ellen R.Prior research explores how knowledge brokers can bring about technological innovation and the structural and network features of brokers, yet little attention focuses on how these micro-level broker relations and processes can have significant macro-level consequences. This dissertation begins to fill this gap by examining the role of brokers in creating radical institutional innovation. Drawing on research in innovation and institutional field emergence, I explore how entrepreneurs create institutional building blocks through brokering and diffusing knowledge, resources and capabilities in an emerging field. More specifically, I employ an ethnographic approach that uses semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and archival data over a 2-year period to examine Libyas rapid emergence of civil society after the fall of a dictator regime. A multi-level process framework emerging from the findings highlights the important role institutional brokers, actors embedded in both established institutions and in the emerging institutional field, play in bringing about radical institutional innovation. These institutional brokers do more than link organizations and individuals; they also transform ideas as they are ideally positioned to receive new and previously uncombined ideas. The framework developed illustrates the dynamics and mechanisms by which these institutional brokers bring about innovation and how their social position mediates their relation to the environment in which they are embedded, and drives their access to the resources and capabilities that support innovation. The findings supplement the rather static portrait of the role of knowledge brokers with a more in-depth understanding of the innovation process these individuals and organizations participate in as they create radical institutional innovation. The framework also extends current views of institutional field emergence by revealing the important, but often missed dynamics of bottom-up strategic action and institutional brokerage as critical drivers of institutional emergence.