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Creating Innovation Systems through Virtual Communities (2007)

Wasko, Molly; Teigland, Robin; Donnellan, Brian

Creating Innovation Systems through Virtual Communities (2007)

Wasko, Molly; Teigland, Robin; Donnellan, Brian

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The current rationale is that geographic regions provide the best context for innovation systems to emerge and thrive because of localized learning processes and the need to transfer “sticky” knowledge through social interaction. The core idea is that innovative activity relies upon an entire system composed of a variety of institutions and infrastructures interacting to create a learning-conducive environment that is geographically bound. The benefits associated with establishing regional innovation systems is that physical proximity facilitates the necessary underlying social capital essential for the creation of new intellectual capital. However, this concept of promoting innovation by restricting researcher and private firm mobility to specific geographic regions has real limitations, for instance, there may not be enough developed land, housing or amenities to attract the top scientists and organizations to a specific region. This begs the question, can regional innovation ...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/10806/

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Expanding the horizons of digital social networks: Mixing big trace datasets with qualitative approaches (2018)

Whelan, Eoin; Teigland, Robin; Vaast, Emmanuelle; Butler, Brian

Expanding the horizons of digital social networks: Mixing big trace datasets with qualitative approaches (2018)

Whelan, Eoin; Teigland, Robin; Vaast, Emmanuelle; Butler, Brian

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The study of social networks has attracted much interest from the IS community in recent years, driven mainly by the accessibility of trace data that remain as a by-product of interactions conducted through technology-enabled platforms. Despite its rapidly growing influence, we have some concerns about the current trajectory of social network research in the IS field. Our purpose in this commentary piece is to accentuate for the new generation of social network researchers, who are au fait with mathematical techniques for analyzing massive digital datasets, how the combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches can enrich our understanding of networks. First we highlight how the social network perspective has contributed to our understanding of IS phenomena. Next we review mixed methods research in IS social network research. An agenda for future IS social network research is then presented where we suggest how qualitative approaches can best complement trace data in address...

http://hdl.handle.net/10379/7208

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How Internet technologies impact information flows in R&D; reconsidering the technological gatekeeper (2010)

Whelan, Eoin; Donnellan, Brian; Golden, Willie; Teigland, Robin

How Internet technologies impact information flows in R&D; reconsidering the technological gatekeeper (2010)

Whelan, Eoin; Donnellan, Brian; Golden, Willie; Teigland, Robin

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Previous studies have firmly established the technological gatekeeper to be a key node in the innovation process – acquiring, translating, and disseminating external information throughout the R&D unit. However, the gatekeeper concept has received modest attention in recent times. We argue that the concept needs to be re-examined in light of the recent advances in Internet technologies that have dramatically altered how knowledge workers source and share their information. Drawing on social network analysis and interview evidence from a medical devices R&D group, we find that the gatekeeper role is still vital, but no longer needs to be performed by a single individual. Instead, the modern R&D group can keep abreast of the latest technological advances through a combination of Internet-enabled internal and external communication specialists. This study makes a number of important contributions. The gatekeeper theory is extended through the development of an updated conce...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/3017/

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How internet technologies impact information flows in r&d: reconsidering the technological gatekeeper (2018)

Whelan, Eoin; Teigland, Robin; Donnellan, Brian; Golden, Willie

How internet technologies impact information flows in r&d: reconsidering the technological gatekeeper (2018)

Whelan, Eoin; Teigland, Robin; Donnellan, Brian; Golden, Willie

Abstract:

Previous studies have firmly established the technological gatekeeper to be a key node in the innovation process - acquiring, translating, and disseminating external information throughout the R&D unit. However, the gatekeeper concept has received modest attention in recent times. We argue that the concept needs to be re-examined in light of the recent advances in Internet technologies that have dramatically altered how knowledge workers source and share their information. Drawing on social network analysis and interview evidence from a medical devices R&D group, we find that the gatekeeper role is still vital, but no longer needs to be performed by a single individual. Instead, the modern R&D group can keep abreast of the latest technological advances through a combination of Internet-enabled internal and external communication specialists. This study makes a number of important contributions. The gatekeeper theory is extended through the development of an u...

http://hdl.handle.net/10379/14413

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Panel: Going Virtual: Are there Real Opportunities for Business in Virtual Worlds? (2008)

Ahonen, M.; Donnellan, Brian; Mahaley, S.; O'Donovan, B.; Teigland, Robin

Panel: Going Virtual: Are there Real Opportunities for Business in Virtual Worlds? (2008)

Ahonen, M.; Donnellan, Brian; Mahaley, S.; O'Donovan, B.; Teigland, Robin

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Summary of Panel Topic (related to ICIS track theme on Social Networking)

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/10811/

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The Multinational's Nemesis: The Rise of ICT-Enabled Distributed Collective Intelligence? (2008)

Gorecki, Johan; Berthon, Pierre; DesAutels, Philip; Donnellan, Brian; Teigland, Robin

The Multinational's Nemesis: The Rise of ICT-Enabled Distributed Collective Intelligence? (2008)

Gorecki, Johan; Berthon, Pierre; DesAutels, Philip; Donnellan, Brian; Teigland, Robin

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The Multinational Corporation bestrode the 19th, 20th and early 21st centuries like the Colossus of Rhodes. Through their efficiency in organizing and effectiveness in achieving goals, multinationals have shaped the world in which we live perhaps even to a greater extent than governments and the people they purport to represent. Yet just as the Rhodes colossus was toppled from below, the rise of grass roots, virtual groups represents a similar seismic nemesis to the modern multinational. In this panel we will debate whether ICTenabled distributed collective intelligence organizations are truly a challenge to the multinational’s hegemony in three areas: 1) are these new organizational forms as efficient and effective as traditional multinationals at enabling coordinated action, 2) are these new organizational forms superior to multinationals in providing social community, and 3) are these new organizational forms qualitatively more effective than multinationals as drivers of social c...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/10816/

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