Robin Gustafsson

• Dr. (Sci. Tech.)
• Professor (Associate) at Aalto University

With the development of digital devices, information and communication technology, and software, value creation and capture logics have evolved, and new ones have emerged. The video game industry has been a forerunner in this evolution. It has grown from an industry that revolved primarily around entertainment to one that engages game developers, u...

In this chapter, we reflect on cognitive aids and their role in strategy work. Strategy research and practice abounds with frameworks, models, tools, and processes, meant to describe and guide the strategy work of managers. These are all examples of cognitive aids. These aids guide and support managerial cognition, the way managers make sense of th...

Recent advances in machine learning (ML) have triggered many firms to try putting the technology into commercial use. However, the creation of ML-based organiza- tional capabilities remains a major challenge. With the aim of extending our under- standing of organizational capabilities, this paper takes a socio-technical system per- spective on the...

Despite the known benefits of playfulness in the workplace, we know little about how workplace playfulness arises from individual playfulness traits. We consider a bottom-up/ab initio approach to study how the experience of workplace playfulness arises from individuals to the group level. Through a four-step approach, we develop a robust measuremen...

Miksi Suomi on jäänyt alustatalouden junasta? Vastaus on, että käytämme liiaksi alustatalousyhtiöiden teknologioita, sovelluksia ja pilvipalveluita. Olemme liian laiskoja kehittämään omia ratkaisujamme.

Open Access: https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S2214-6296(21)00467-9 In this essay we investigate the “lessons learned” within the domain of human and organizational factors (HOF) from operating European nuclear power plants (NPPs) in a fifty-year perspective. Specifically, we consider learning processes at an industry level that aim at prom...

Koneoppimisessa viime vuosina tapahtunut kehitys on saanut monet yritykset kokeilemaan teknologian käyttöä kokeellisessa sekä kaupallisessa tarkoituksessa. Yritysten koneoppimiseen pohjautuvien valmiuksien kehittäminen ja hyötyjen saavuttaminen on kuitenkin osoittautunut välillä erittäin haastavaksi. Tässä politiikkasuosituksessa yritysten koneoppi...

Purpose Corporate relocation is a rare event in the history of an individual company. The choices related to location, building and workplace constitute major long-term strategic decisions that determine the company’s future operating environment. However, business decision-makers often do not evaluate all the aspects of relocation before making re...

New digital technologies and tools, together with evolving open physical and digital infrastructures, are remodelling science and innovation practices at universities and challenging their existing cultures, cognitive norms, missions, and policies. The purpose of this empirical study was to understand how existing and recently adopted open science...

Hackathons are time-bounded crowdsourcing events, which have recently prospered in many technology and science domains across the globe. We study Europe’s largest hackathon, Junction, to better understand the distinct crowdsourcing properties and mechanisms of this type of hackathon as a form of tournament-based crowdsourcing. Moreover, we determin...

Building on a historical case study on the first two stock exchanges to adopt the now globally dominant for-profit organizational form, the Stockholm Stock Exchange in 1993 and the Helsinki Stock Exchange in 1995, we argue that interaction among socially proximate peers contributes to pioneering organizational form adoption within an industry, part...

Although researchers have discussed big data for years, they have thus far has scarcely touched on directly selling and monetizing data assets. This aspect has particular relevance given recent concerns about data privacy and security and the simultaneous explosion in the use of data for marketing and service-development purposes. In this paper, we...

Principles and practices of open science at universities are evolving. Increasing use and application of digital technologies and platforms in research and innovation are pushing universities to take up and develop new visions and principles for how research and innovation are performed. These open science policies and practices (i.e. open data sha...

Digital platforms, such as Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android, face two major challenges in maintaining their competitive positions. First, the ever-increasing variety of thirdparty apps risks fragmenting a platform and requires the platform owner to use controls to maintain platform unity. Second, a too-open approach may invite competitors to exploi...

We develop a novel understanding of value creation from the Internet of Things (IoT) in the heavy machinery industry. We analyze the operational middle management perspective on the current state of IoT implementation in four industry segments utilizing heavy machinery, including chemicals, electrical equipment, marine, and pulp and paper. We find...

Digital platforms can be opened in two ways to promote innovation and value generation. A platform owner can open access for third-party participants by establishing boundary resources, such as APIs and an app store, to allowcomplements to be developed and shared for the platform. Furthermore, to foster cooperation with the complementors, the platf...

Exel White paper is introducing the newest view on the effects of 5G era on composite materials and related products. Find the open access version from Exel Composites' data base: http://www.exelcomposites.com/en-us/english/markets/telecommunication/5g.aspx

There has been an emergence of collaborative research networks of industry-university-government relationships, or so-called Triple Helix (TH) organizations. Many TH organizations strive for research and innovation community management. In the innovation and knowledge management literature, community management offers open, participatory, and distr...

We argue that our understanding of how institutions matter has been undermined by a piecemeal approach to temporality in institutional analyses. This chapter addresses this shortcoming in the literature. We bring temporality to the fore by conceptualizing practices, which constitute institutions, as understood, situated and coordinated in time by t...

Time is inherently present in empirical research on institutional change-most studies sequence actions and events across stages of development, over time. Yet research has overlooked how temporality, as a negotiated organizing of time, shapes institutional processes, despite the fact that timing, duration, and tenor of relationships are their found...

This paper reviews the literature on the emergence of industries and the theoretical and methodological approaches employed. The analysis reveals that industry emergence can be depicted as a three-stage process. In the first, initial stage, a disruption to the existing industrial order triggers the second, the co-evolutionary stage, which includes...

Research on identity work exposes how managers use narrative strategies to construct their venture’s identity as normatively appropriate yet strategically distinctive in the context of their organizational field. However, existing studies focus predominantly upon the venture-centric component of identity work, thereby reducing the venture’s externa...

Open platform boundary resources, those elements that enable contributions and participation, are strategically critical for platform ecosystem prosperity. However, at the same time, boundary resources make the platform vulnerable to exploitation. Surprisingly, there are no studies to date that have addressed exploitation of open platform boundary...

Particularly under conditions of uncertainty and ambiguity, sensemaking of managers have a degree of discretion with respect to the way in which they use time in representation. With a few notable exceptions, research focusing explicitly upon the temporal dimension in sensemaking and framing is surprisingly sparse. We seek to better understand the...

The promises and visions arising from scientific discoveries, technological breakthroughs, and the emergence of technological fields are by nature uncertain and inaccurate. This paper suggests that a reasonable way to expose more accurately the conditions of incomplete knowledge, imperfect inference, and open-endedness surrounding emerging technolo...

Previous studies establish that rather than merely overcoming inertia and rigidity, institutional change also goes through stages of fluidity during which transformation seems to proceed rapidly without many contradictions, effective opposition, and failed attempts. Yet, we lack coherent understanding on what underlies such fluidity. We focus on pr...

Based on an in-depth case study investigating the emergence of a normative institution, namely the diesel particulate filter (DPF) as a de facto standard for diesel cars in Germany, this paper develops a dualistic process model of institutional emergence which reflects the fundamental oppositional character of institutional actors involved in a ser...

Based on an in-depth case study, this paper examines how framing contests between proponents and opponents of the Diesel particulate filter (DPF) in Germany evolve over time to affect institution creation. Our results suggest that the emergence of institution passes through three cumulative phases: necessary opening, organizing-mobilizing, instrume...

Based on an in-depth case study, this paper examines how framing contests between proponents and opponents of the Diesel particulate filter (DPF) in Germany evolve over time to affect institution creation. Our results suggest that the emergence of institution passes through three cumulative phases: necessary opening, organizing-mobilizing, instrume...

In this article, we review current rationales for policy intervention in innovative activities. Focusing particularly on market and system failure rationales, we disentangle related underlying mechanisms for knowledge exploration and exploitation. We provide a novel contribution to the system failure literature by distinguishing between system-leve...

Despite extensive research on the emergence of technological fields and industries, a comprehensive theoretical explanation of what enables or inhibits the emergence of these fields has yet to be developed. To this extent, previous research has been unable to offer satisfactory theoretical explanations of the emergence and socio-cognitive dynamics...

In this paper, we distinguish between firm-level learning effects that result from ‘first-order’ and ‘second-order’ additionalities in innovation policy interventions. ‘First-order’ additionalities represent direct firm-level R&D subsidies, whereas ‘second-order’ additionalities result from knowledge spill-overs, horizontal knowledge exchanges betw...

In this article, we review received rationales for policy intervention in innovative activities. Focusing particularly on market and system failure rationales, we review received theorizing underlying each and assess their influence on innovative activity. Drawing on recent literature on social influences on innovation from the neo-institutional an...

Further to the Kyoto treaty, many nations have committed themselves to challenging targets for reducing CO2 emissions as a step towards the mitigation of harmful consequences of climate change. In this paper, we report a policy workshop where Finnish experts took stock of a national research and technology development programme on climate change an...

This paper focuses on (1) how communities of practice impact innovation and learning; (2) how such communities emerge; and (3) the role of government in advancing these. Our aim is to develop a model that adds a new perspective, that of 'social cognitive failure', to complement theoretical arguments underlying received technology and innovation pol...