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Designing the Organization for User Innovation

Peter Keinz, Christoph Hienerth, Christopher Lettl · 2012 · Journal of Organization Design

Summary. Organizations are shifting from internal, producer-driven innovation toward user-centered and open innovation models. This paper identifies major user innovation strategies and explains how each one requires different organizational design choices. The authors propose that successful innovation increasingly depends on building symbiotic ecosystems where producers and users collaborate, fundamentally reshaping how companies structure themselves.

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Keinz, P., Hienerth, C., & Lettl, C.. (2012). Designing the Organization for User Innovation. Journal of Organization Design. https://doi.org/10.7146/jod.6346

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DOI
10.7146/jod.6346
Countries
Austria, Germany
Regions
Europe
Categories
innovation-theory, innovation-networks, general-innovation
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2026-04-28