Closing for the benefit of openness? The case of Wikimedia's open strategy process

L Dobusch, L Dobusch… - Organization studies, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
A growing number of organizations subscribe to ideals of openness in areas such as
innovation or strategy-making, supported by digital technologies and fuelled by promises of …

Orchestrating open innovation through punctuated openness: A process model of open organizing for tackling wicked multi-stakeholder problems

D Diriker, AJ Porter, P Tuertscher - Organization Studies, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Orchestrating open innovation initiatives characterized by frequent changes in stakeholders
and activities can be a daunting task. As these initiatives need to adapt to the constantly …

Opening up the strategy process–a network perspective

J Hautz - Management decision, 2017 - emerald.com
Purpose While strategy was traditionally perceived as exclusive, and limited to small groups
within organizations, recently a shift toward greater openness through inclusion of a larger …

Openness as organizing principle: Introduction to the special issue

V Splitter, L Dobusch, G von Krogh… - Organization …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
'Openness' has become an organizational leitmotif of our time, spreading across a growing
set of organizational domains. However, discussions within these specialized domains (eg …

Open strategy: Literature review, re-analysis of cases and conceptualisation as a practice

A Tavakoli, D Schlagwein, D Schoder - The Journal of Strategic Information …, 2017 - Elsevier
An increasing number of organisations (eg, Daimler, IBM and Red Hat) have adopted what
has been called “open strategy”: involving large groups of people in strategy making via …

Defining open strategy: Dimensions, practices, impacts, and perspectives

D Seidl, G Von Krogh, R Whittington - Cambridge handbook of open …, 2019 - cambridge.org
Recent years have seen increasing initiatives involving more open strategizing. These
initiatives, referred to as Open Strategy, imply greater transparency and/or inclusiveness in …

Open strategy-making at the Wikimedia foundation: a dialogic perspective

L Heracleous, J Gößwein… - The Journal of applied …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Dialogue is essential to open strategy processes, yet these processes have not been
researched from a dialogic perspective. We therefore ask the question: What is the role of …

Open strategy-making with crowds and communities: Comparing Wikimedia and Creative Commons

L Dobusch, J Kapeller - Long range planning, 2018 - Elsevier
In the wake of new digital technologies, organizations rely increasingly on contributions by
external actors to innovate or even to fulfill their core tasks, including strategy-making …

Open strategy: Dimensions, dilemmas, dynamics

J Hautz, D Seidl, R Whittington - Long Range Planning, 2017 - Elsevier
Responding to increasing practitioner and academic interest in Open Strategy, this article
builds on recent theoretical and empirical studies in order to advance research in the …

Sunlight in cyberspace? On transparency as a form of ordering

M Flyverbom - European journal of social theory, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
While we witness a growing belief in transparency as an ideal solution to a wide range of
societal problems, we know less about the practical workings of transparency as it guides …