User innovation and motivation

Literature Review

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Why do users innovate, and share innovation for free?

• Utilitarian motivation: user’s customized need, sticky info
• Intrinsic motivation: Competence, Autonomy, Relatedness, SDT
• Voluntary social movement participation models:
• Extrinsic motivation: Crowding-out and Undermining theory criticisms

Utility: Users benefit for sharing

• Hippel, Eric von, and Georg von Krogh. “Free Revealing and the Private-Collective Model for Innovation Incentives.” R and D Management 36, no. 3 (June 2006): 295–306. 

• Harhoff, Dietmar, Joachim Henkel, and Eric von Hippel. “Profiting from Voluntary Information Spillovers: How Users Benefit by Freely Revealing Their Innovations” Research Policy 32, no. 10 (December 2003): 1753–69.

Intrinsic and Extrinsic motivation:

Self-determination Theory

• Edward L Deci, Richard Koestner, and Richard M Ryan. “A Meta-Analytic Review of Experiments Examining the Effects of Extrinsic Rewards on Intrinsic Motivation,” n.d., 42.
• Ryan, Richard M., and Edward L. Deci. “Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations: Classic Definitions and New Directions.” Contemporary Educational Psychology 25, no. 1 (January 2000): 54–67.

Intrinsic and Extrinsic motivation:

Undermining Theory and criticisms

• Lakhani, Karim, and Robert G. Wolf. “Why Hackers Do What They Do: Understanding Motivation and Effort in Free/Open Source Software Projects.” SSRN Electronic Journal, 2003.
• Reiss, Steven. Myths of Intrinsic Motivation, 2013. ISBN: 978-0-9891701-0-9

Extrinsic motivation

• Fostering internalization and integration of values (Richard, Deci, 2000)
• Possible extrinsic benefit out-weights undermining effect?
• OSS maintainer burn-out and lisense choice (faker.js example)
• User Entrepreneuship and OSS funding models