Digital product innovation within four classes of innovation networks
Summary. Digital technologies reshape how innovation networks create and share knowledge by reducing communication costs, increasing connectivity, and accelerating convergence across diverse participants. The authors identify four types of digitally-enabled innovation networks—project, clan, federated, and anarchic—each requiring different approaches to knowledge sharing and integration. Digital infrastructures support these networks through representational flexibility, semantic coherence, traceability, knowledge brokering, and linguistic calibration.
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Lyytinen, K., Yoo, Y., & Boland, R. J.. (2015). Digital product innovation within four classes of innovation networks. Information Systems Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12093
Lyytinen, Kalle, et al. “Digital product innovation within four classes of innovation networks.” Information Systems Journal, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12093.
Lyytinen, Kalle, Youngjin Yoo, and Richard J. Boland. 2015. “Digital product innovation within four classes of innovation networks.” Information Systems Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12093.
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journal = {Information Systems Journal},
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TY - JOUR TI - Digital product innovation within four classes of innovation networks AU - Kalle Lyytinen AU - Youngjin Yoo AU - Richard J. Boland JO - Information Systems Journal PY - 2015 DO - 10.1111/isj.12093 UR - https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12093 ER -
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- DOI
- 10.1111/isj.12093
- Countries
- United States
- Regions
- North America
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- innovation-networks, innovation-theory, broadband-and-digital, general-innovation
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- 2026-04-28