A digital ecosystem as an institutional field: curated peer production as a response to institutional voids revealed by COVID‐19

IF 6.7 2区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

R&D Management Pub Date : 2022-09-05 DOI:10.1111/radm.12555

Soumodip Sarkar, Anna Waldman-Brown, S. Clegg

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Abstract

This paper investigates the ecosystem dynamics of the Open‐source [COVID‐19] Medical Supplies network that arose to fill the institutional void revealed by state and private sector failures to stockpile and supply enough personal protective equipment. Theoretically, the paper adds correctives to extant institutional theory accounts of entrepreneurship filling institutional voids, showing that these can be filled rapidly and normatively by digital entrepreneurial ecosystems allied with peer production networks. These were able to transform the boundary conditions of a routinized system, refixing its autopoiesis innovatively. The COVID‐19 epidemic galvanized hundreds of thousands of volunteer “makers” around the world to cooperate to meet urgent demand for medical supplies. A digital entrepreneurial ecosystem arose in response to the problem of critical equipment shortages, connecting global, expert‐curated know‐how with local production equipment. We contribute to the theory of institutional voids by documenting and analyzing how the formation and emergent processes that created and sustained a Digital Peer Production Ecosystem based on self‐organization, expert curation and scalability, successfully catalyzed local initiatives worldwide. Institutional voids are not just barriers to entrepreneurship; they are also opportunities.

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作为制度领域的数字生态系统:策划同行生产，以应对COVID - 19所揭示的制度空白

本文研究了开源[COVID - 19]医疗用品网络的生态系统动态，该网络填补了国家和私营部门未能储存和供应足够的个人防护装备所揭示的制度空白。从理论上讲，本文对现有的关于企业家精神填补制度空白的制度理论进行了修正，表明这些空白可以通过与对等生产网络相结合的数字创业生态系统快速而规范地填补。这些能够改变常规系统的边界条件，创新地修复其自创生。COVID - 19疫情激发了世界各地数十万志愿者“制造者”的合作，以满足对医疗用品的紧急需求。为了应对关键设备短缺的问题，数字创业生态系统应运而生，将全球专家策划的专有技术与当地生产设备联系起来。我们通过记录和分析创建和维持基于自组织、专家管理和可扩展性的数字对等生产生态系统的形成和紧急过程，成功地催化了全球范围内的地方倡议，从而为制度空白理论做出了贡献。制度空白不仅是创业的障碍;它们也是机会。

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11.30

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