Innovation communities: from their characterization to the questioning of their boundaries

Comunidades de innovación: desde su caracterización hasta el cuestionamiento de sus fronteras

Sandra Dubouloz, Anne Berthinier-Poncet, Luciana Castro Gonçalves (), Emilie Ruiz () and Catherine Thevenard-Puthod ()
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Sandra Dubouloz: IREGE - Institut de Recherche en Gestion et en Economie - USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry] - Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Anne Berthinier-Poncet: LIRSA - Laboratoire interdisciplinaire de recherche en sciences de l'action - CNAM - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM]
Luciana Castro Gonçalves: IRG - Institut de Recherche en Gestion - UPEC UP12 - Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 - Université Gustave Eiffel, ESIEE Paris, LITEM - Laboratoire en Innovation, Technologies, Economie et Management (EA 7363) - UEVE - Université d'Évry-Val-d'Essonne - Université Paris-Saclay - IMT-BS - Institut Mines-Télécom Business School - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris]
Emilie Ruiz: BETA - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - AgroParisTech - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar - UL - Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement
Catherine Thevenard-Puthod: IREGE - Institut de Recherche en Gestion et en Economie - USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry] - Université Savoie Mont Blanc

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Abstract: The literature on innovation communities suffers from a lack of clarification of the theoretical construct and associated typologies. The objective of this research is therefore to propose a fine characterization of the communities that interact during innovation projects, by questioning their mutually exclusive character or the potential porosity of their boundaries. Through three case studies of outdoor sport companies, we characterize three types of innovation communities (communities of practice, epistemic and user communities) through five characteristics (their members, objectives, organizational dynamics, communication modes and the nature of their social ties). Moreover, intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms are identified as being at the origin of the decompartmentalization of the three types of communities identified.

Keywords: Innovation communities; Mixed communities; Constellation of innovation communities; Boundary objects; Comunidad de innovación; Comunidades mixtas; Constelación de comunidades de innovación; Objetos límite; Communautés d'innovation; Communautés mixtes; Constellation de communautés d'innovation; Objets-frontière (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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Published in Management international = International management = Gestión internacional, 2021, Communautés, écosystèmes et innovation / Communities, Ecosystems and innovation / Comunidades, ecosistemas e innovación, 25 (Hors-série), pp.162-183. ⟨10.7202/1088144ar⟩

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DOI: 10.7202/1088144ar

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