Category Divergence, Straddling, and Currency: Open Innovation and the Legitimation of Illegitimate Categories

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 173-203

  Alexy, Oliver ^a   George, Gerard ^b  

^a TUM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Category emergence; Open innovation; Open source software; Organizational legitimacy; Valuation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874231518     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: 14676486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joms.12000     Document Type: Article

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