Journal of Management Information Systems
A strategic analysis of electronic marketplaces
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on the strategic use of information systems
The impact of purchasing policy on electronic markets and electronic hierarchies
Information and Management
Electronic markets and electronic hierarchies
Communications of the ACM
Proceedings of the IFIP TC8 WG 8.2 international conference on Information systems and qualitative research
Information Resources Management Journal
Reengineering the Dutch Flower Auctions: a Framework for Analyzing Exchange Organizations
Information Systems Research
Building an Inductive Theory of Collaboration in Virtual Teams: An Adapted Grounded Theory Approach
HICSS '00 Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 7 - Volume 7
Generalizing Generalizability in Information Systems Research
Information Systems Research
Impacts of the electronic marketplace on transaction cost and market structure
International Journal of Electronic Commerce - Special section: Diversity in electronic commerce research
Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge
Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business
Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business
Motivation in Open Innovation
The transformation of open source software
MIS Quarterly
Introducing app stores into a packaged software ecosystem: a negotiated order perspective
International Journal of Business Information Systems
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
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Exemplars of open innovation have revealed that intellectual property (IP) need not only be sourced through existing hierarchical or market relationships. Rather IP can be acquired from individuals and firms with whom an organization has no prior relationship. In such cases, an intermediary, operating as an innovation exchange or brokerage, frequently facilitates the development and acquisition of IP. This paper examines one type of innovation intermediary, the 'Solver Brokerage,' which enables innovation exchanges between organizations and unknown external firms and individuals (i.e. a crowdsourcing process). While the commercial success of Solver Brokerages indicates the potency of arguments concerning the potential of crowdsourcing, little is known about the operation of such brokerages or the crowdsourcing processes that they enable. This paper examines extant research on innovation networks, crowdsourcing, and electronic marketplaces to identify three processes (knowledge mobility, appropriability and stability) that we argue are necessary to 'orchestrate' crowdsourcing. Using a field study of four Solver Brokerages, an innovation seeking organization, as well as 15 innovation providers (i.e. members of the 'crowd'), the paper illustrates the ways in which the three orchestration processes are enhanced in Solver Brokerages. It reveals that while knowledge mobility and appropriability processes can be enhanced by activities under the control of the Solver Brokerage, stability is largely determined by innovation seeking organizations and the innovation providers. The paper concludes that broker-provided value-added 'orchestration' services need to enable knowledge mobility and appropriability, and to ensure that 'unsuccessful' innovation seekers and providers appropriate sufficient value to participate again.