Managing Sustainable Innovation with a User Community Toolkit: The Case of the Video Game<i><scp>T</scp>rackmania</i>

Guy Parmentier, Romain Gandia · 2013 · Creativity and Innovation Management

Summary. A video game company used a toolkit connected to its user community to sustain innovation over time. The toolkit enabled users to create content and participate in value creation, acting as a boundary management tool between the firm and community. The study identifies four approaches for managing sustainable innovation through user toolkits, showing that structured community participation drives long-term innovation capacity beyond short-term collaboration benefits.

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  title   = {Managing Sustainable Innovation with a User Community Toolkit: The Case of the Video Game<i><scp>T</scp>rackmania</i>},
  author  = {Guy Parmentier and Romain Gandia},
  journal = {Creativity and Innovation Management},
  year    = {2013},
  doi     = {10.1111/caim.12021},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.1111/caim.12021}
}

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DOI

10.1111/caim.12021

Countries

France

Regions

Europe

Categories

innovation-theory, innovation-networks, general-innovation

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2026-04-28