This paper adds to the growing debate on the design of the shared space between firms and communities in co‐innovation processes. We investigate specific organizational design initiatives that firms can take when collaborating with online communities to nurture their joint knowledge creation process and to realize a useful output. We contend that drafting a formal policy, leaving the coordination of the joint project to others and, in case of taking on the coordination duty, dedicating an employee's full time to realize the project administrator task can help increase the amount of useful output of such collaborations. Results based on a sample of 1,099 open source software projects hosted on the platform SourceForge.net support our hypotheses.

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为公司-社区合作设计共享空间以进行创新：开源项目中的正式政策和协调

本文为共同创新过程中企业与社区之间共享空间的设计提供了越来越多的争论。我们调查了公司与在线社区合作时可以采取的特定组织设计计划，以培育他们的联合知识创造过程并实现有用的输出。我们认为，起草正式政策，将联合项目的协调工作留给其他人，在承担协调职责的情况下，将员工的全职时间用于实现项目管理员的任务可以帮助增加此类合作的有用产出。基于SourceForge.net平台上托管的1,099个开源软件项目的样本得出的结果支持了我们的假设。