Paper Info
Title
When It Evolves Beyond Community Needs: Coevolution Of Bottom-Up It Innovation And Communities
Abstract
This paper examines how innovative uses of IT artifacts and their repurposing to fulfill emerging or unsatisfied user needs (bottom-up innovation, BUI) develop in community settings. Based on a longitudinal analysis of "HomeNets," communities that developed residential internet access in Belarus over a 20-year period, we illustrate that the development of community BUI is driven not only by the needs of the innovating members but also by the interplay between the innovating members' community context and technology and the interplay between the BUI technology and context. We demonstrate how these dynamics trigger community BUI development that goes beyond the needs and expectations of the innovating actors and impacts community evolution and long-term survival. Based on our findings, we develop a model of community BUI development. We discuss the theoretical implications of our findings, highlighting the role of technology and context in community BUI and its processual unfolding beyond the needs and intentions of the innovating members.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.17705/1jais.00691
JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Innovative IT Uses, Bottom-Up Innovation, Communities, Technology, Evolving, Emergent, Context
Journal
22
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
1536-9323
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Aljona Zorina132.48
Stan Karanasios216018.14