Designed to harness the distributed creativity to tackle the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the WirvsVirus Hackathon brought a multitude of participants from various sectors together for a short period to brainstorm and develop innovative solutions. A project, UpdateDeutschland, followed in 2021 and was similar to #WirvsVirus as a multi-stakeholder and multi-sectoral initiative seeking to effectively address social challenges.

Progress in the project moved forward and it became time to dive into the findings resulting from the initial research phase.

Article in Industry and Innovation (30^th Anniversary Special Issue)

Our recent article in the Industry and Innovation Journal, öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster, titled "Open Social Innovation: Taking Stock and Moving Forward", is part of a special issue celebrating 30 years of the Industry and Innovation Journal, featuring articles focusing on comprehensive innovation challenges. Our article critically examines OSI. We argue that traditional approaches, primarily organization-centric, are insufficient to address the 'wicked' and complex nature of social problems. Instead, we propose a shift towards OSI 2.0, a multi-stakeholder, cross-sectoral approach. This model emphasizes collaborative efforts throughout the innovation process, ranging from identifying problems to scaling solutions and generating impact. Along with outlining areas for future research, we offer refined terminology for OSI 2.0 and suggest designing dimensions to suppor teffective orchestration in collaboration and coordination.

Information & Organization Journal

Here, öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster, we discuss "Orchestrating Distributed Data Governance in Open Social Innovation". The article underscores data governance's critical role in OSI, proposing a three-dimension framework: openness, accountability, and power. When it comes to OSI projects, the framework governs effective data management and innovation coordination.

Journal of Business Venturing Insights

Our research here, öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster, titled "Pathways and Mechanisms for Catalyzing Social Impact through Orchestration", explores collective entrepreneurial approaches in OSI. We identify four pathways for generating social impact: lead user focus, solution focus, problem focus, and ecosystem focus. This study expands on our understanding of how collective action can be orchestrated to support societal benefit.

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Our article, öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster presents OSI as a novel method to tackle social issues, highlighting the importance of involving multiple stakeholders during every stage ranging from generating ideas to scaling solutions.

As we continue to explore and expand the frontiers of open social innovation, these findings not only offer valuable insight, they also lay the foundation to support future research and real-world applications in this dynamic field. We will organize a track, öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster at next year’s EGOS Colloquium (2024) and more research findings will also be available from our UpdateSocial, öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster research project (2023; by Laura Dobusch and Nina Füreder).