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SUMMARY:MTEI Seminar by Prof. Natalia Levina\, NYU
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Natalia Levina\, New York University\n"Taking a stance o
 n crowdsourcing: Enacting deep commitments to views of reality and knowled
 ge in exploring IT-enabled opportunities for organizing innovation"Authors
 \nAnne-Laure Fayard\, Polytechnic School of Engineering\, New York Univers
 ity (alfayard@nyu.edu)\nEmmanouil Gkeredakis\, Warwick Business School\, U
 niversity of Warwick (Emmanouil.Gkeredakis@wbs.ac.uk)\nNatalia Levina\, St
 ern School of Business\, New York University (nlevina@stern.nyu.edu)Abstra
 ct:\nIn this paper\, we investigate how organizations explore and respond 
 to new possibilities to organize innovation a complex type of work\, which
  inherently aims at producing new knowledge through IT-enabled crowdsourci
 ng. Based on an in-depth interpretive study\, we show how two innovation c
 onsultancy firms explored and took a position vis-à-vis crowdsourcing for
  innovation (to engage further and experiment\, or not). We identified sig
 nificant variations in their positions\, which reflected their different i
 nterpretations of opportunities and risks to produce new knowledge and inn
 ovate within crowdsourcing arrangements. To make sense of these findings\,
  we draw upon philosophy of science and propose the concept of stance. Whe
 n taking a stance on a particular issue (in our context\, possibilities fo
 r crowdsourcing innovation)\, organizational actors enact commitments to b
 eliefs about the world and knowledge and draw upon normative understanding
 s of how new knowledge can be produced (e.g.\, through modeling\, or throu
 gh ongoing experimentation). The paper elucidates that the two firms we st
 udied took different stances on crowdsourcing by committing to distinctive
  beliefs about reality and knowledge\, which were manifested in their diss
 imilar conceptions of crowds\npotential and role for innovation. The paper
  discusses how the concept of stance allows future examination of organiza
 tional responses to novel organizing possibilities not only for crowdsourc
 ing innovation\, but also for other types of complex knowledge work.
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