Category Divergence, Straddling, and Currency: Open Innovation and the Legitimation of Illegitimate Categories

• Main Authors: ALEXY, Oliver, GEORGE, Gerard
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: category emergence; open innovation; open source software; organizational legitimacy; valuation; Business; Strategic Management Policy; Technology and Innovation
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/4673; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/5672/viewcontent/Alexy_et_al_2013_CategoryDivergence.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The organizational literature is increasingly interested in the origins and consequences of category emergence. We examine the effects of being affiliated with categories initially considered illegitimate (‘divergence’), and of organizational attempts to blur the boundaries between categories (‘stra...