Designing the Organization for User Innovation

There is increasing consensus among practitioners and academics alike that we\udare in the midst of a paradigm shift from producer-centered and internal innovation processes\udtoward user-centered and open innovation processes. This paradigm shift induces significant\udchanges to the design of organizations. Even though the research field of user innovation has\udbeen developing over a period of more than four decades, there have been only occasional\udintersections with the research field of organizational design. In this article, we aim to provide\udan integrated perspective of the two fields. We first identify major user innovation strategies.\udWe then derive the implications for each user innovation strategy on key dimensions of\udorganizational design