Measuring the Perceived Functional Affordances of Collaborative Innovation Networks in Social Product Development
Kaveh Abhari, Elizabeth Davidson, Bo Sophia Xiao · 2016
The social model of open innovation allows all members of a community to participate in new product development. Social-media co-innovation platforms are the main enablers of this model of open innovation. One aspect of this business transformation model, co-innovation platform affordances, has captured the attention of researchers and practitioners. Although the importance of co-innovation platform affordances has been established, the development of a valid and reliable instrument to measure this construct in research studies has not been reported in the literature. This paper conceptualizes co-innovation platform affordances and develops a valid and reliable measurement instrument capturing critical facets of co-innovation, namely ideation, collaboration, and communication.