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How to Manage Outside Innovation
by Karim LakhaniMIT Sloan Management Review 50, no. 4, Summer 2009
Which Kind of Collaboration is Right for You? The New Leaders in Innovation will be those who figure out the best way to leverage a network of outsiders
by Gary P. Pisano and Roberto VergantiHarvard Business Review, December 2008
Intellectual Property, Architecture, and the Management of Technological Transitions: Evidence from Microsoft Corporation
by Alan MacCormack, John Alan David and Marco IansitiJournal of Product Innovation Management
How to Capture Value from Innovation: Shaping Intellectual Property and Industry Architecture
by Gary P. Pisano, Teece, David J.California Management Review, Fall 2007
Innovating Through Design
by Roberto VergantiHarvard Business Review December, 2006
Organization Design and Effectiveness over the Innovation Life Cycle
by Westerman, George, F. Warren McFarlan, and Marco IansitiOrganization Science, March-April 2006
Exploring the Structure of Complex Software Designs: An Empirical Study of Open Source and Proprietary Code
by Alan MacCormack, John Rusnak and Carliss Y BaldwinManagement Science, October 2005
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Strategy As Ecology
by Marco Iansiti and Roy LevienHarvard Business Review, March 1, 2004
The Incumbent's Advantage
by Marco Iansiti, F. Warren. McFarlan and George WestermanSloan Management Review, 2003
Managing the Sources of Uncertainty: Matching Process and Context in Software Development
by Alan MacCormack, and Roberto VergantiJournal of Product Innovation Management, May 2003

