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Digital product innovation within four classes of innovation networks

Kalle Lyytinen, Youngjin Yoo, Richard J. Boland · 2015 · Information Systems Journal

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

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DOI
10.1111/isj.12093
Countries
United States
Regions
North America
Categories
innovation-networks, innovation-theory, broadband-and-digital, general-innovation
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2026-04-28