Article pp.169-171 du Vol.37 n°210 (2011)

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7 Editorial

11 Contributors to this issue

15 From monologue to dialogue: the communicational transformation of an organization

Nicolas Arnaud

The aim of this paper is to test empirically Giordano and Giroux’s hypothesis, published in a 1998 RFG issue, according to which monological communication corresponds to a dramatical phase of the life of organizations, and dialogue to the continuous improvement of the practices of modern networked organization. The findings of our research verify this hypothesis, but also prolong the authors’ thought and contribute to the school of research which uses communicational approaches to organizations.

33 Ordinary deviance, innovation and management:

the contribution of Norbert Alter Olivier Babeau, Jean-François Chanlat

This paper proposes to show how the work of Norbert Alter brings a major contribution to our understanding of organizations, specially regarding intimately intricate phenomena such as innovation and rule transgression. This French sociologist clearly pinpoints the existence, forms and stakes of ordinary transgression practices in organization. After proposing a synthesis of this work, we underline its specific contribution to management science and possible continuation.

51 Facilitating a negotiated resolution of conflicts Alain Pekar Lempereur

For a successful negotiation of disputes, some instinctive behaviours must be overcome by effective process management applying the following methodological principles: putting people first before managing the problems, searching parties’ motivations before looking for solutions, exploring creating value opportunities before distributing the value, anchoring solutions with justification criteria before selecting the best solution at the table, and checking the solutions away from the table before concluding.

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File: Open innovation model

Guest Editors: Thomas Loilier, Albéric Tellier

69 How to deal with the open innovation model?

Thomas Loilier, Albéric Tellier

The aim of this article is to determine the set of conditions for the open innovation model to represent an analytical frame of the innovation process.

First, ambiguities that are typical of the current version of the model are depicted. An adjusted model is assessed in the second section. The contributions of the article of this special review are specified and new avenues that could be explored are proposed.

87 A critical analysis of open innovation foundations Thierry Isckia, Denis Lescop

Firms cannot innovate alone anymore. Open Innovation is a possible answer to this crucial need for collaboration. The concept looks elegant and relies on a real managerial practice. However, it requires a definition and a validity domain. The purpose of the paper is to question the very foundations of open innovation and to propose a new grid of analysis to fully understand the phenomena.

99 How to manage intellectual property rights in open business models?

Cécile Ayerbe, Valérie Chanal

In Chesbrough’s research, Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) play a major role within a so called “Open Innovation” system for innovative activities. The latter focuses on a renewed approach of IPRs. IPRs are now considered not only as a source of additional revenues, but also as a means of entering new markets thanks to Open Business Models. This article aims at discussing the limits of Chesbrough’s approach while questioning the management of IPRs.

117 Open innovation and intellectual property management:

What strategies in the video game industry?

Romain Gandia, Sébastien Brion, Caroline Mothe

Controling and exploiting property rights attached to collaborative innovation are difficult tasks. The literature suggests a negative relationship between the level of openness of the innovation process and the ownership of property rights. However, it does not specify the type of collaboration nor the nature of partners. Through the study of five video game studios, we show that opening up the innovation process through a closed collaboration with partners implies a negative relationship between the level of openness and the ownership of property rights intellectual. Conversely, an open collaboration with user communities leads to a positive relationship.

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133 The roles of lead users in the multi-actor innovation process:

the software case

François Scheid, Florence Charue-Duboc

We study the case of an innovation designed by two software companies, which combined their software to build a new kind of software platform. Those companies have had to implement this new platform for two customers. We have undertaken a longitudinal study of those two implementation projects to analyse the role of the first customers. This leads us to define four kinds of roles to enrich the lead user notion.

149 The property rights of knowledge as a tension between public research institutions and firms. The case of a French technological cluster Pascal Corbel, Hervé Chomienne, Claude Serfati

In accordance with the open innovation model, relations between public research centres and industrial firms tend to rise. Nevertheless, it raises the fundamental issue of their divergent approaches of knowledge appropriation, which results in tensions on intellectual property issues. We show that, on the one hand, these tensions are increased by representations of the other party, and, on the other hand, that working on common projects reduces them.

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