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Open Organizations and Organizing Openness 2023
The document outlines a course by Leonhard Dobusch at the University of Innsbruck focused on open organizations and the concept of openness. It covers the motivations, structure, and topics of the course, including lectures and seminars that explore various aspects of organizational openness and illustrative examples. Students are expected to participate in discussions, submit questions, and complete an essay based on their learning and group presentations.
Open Organizations and Organizing Openness 2023
- 1. Open Organizations andOrganizing Openness Leonhard Dobusch March 28, 2023 University of Innsbruck Introduction to the Course
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- 3. Who are you? ‣Name ‣ Academic background and interests How open are you? ‣ Personal experiences with openness? ‣ Favorite examples of openness?
- 4. <2> Motivation for theCourse
- 5. Freedom 0: torun the program as you wish, for any purpose. Freedom 1: to study how the program works, and change it. Freedom 2: to redistribute copies. Freedom 3: to distribute copies of your modi fi ed versions to others Access to the source code is a precondition for freedoms 1 & 3.
- 6. think of 'freespeech', not 'free beer'. “ Free as in Freedom? 6 Richard Stallman Photo: Bill Ebbesen, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_-_Denmark_DTU_2007-3-31.jpg
- 8. “Imagine a worldin which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.”
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- 14. Photo: Screenshot FlickrCreative Commons portal
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- 20. Course Wiki atwiki.uibk.ac.at/4open >> course wiki will be open for edits by April 11, 2023
- 21. Two-part Structure: Lectureand Seminar >> Final exam covering lecture & seminar: June 14, 2023 (1) Lecture - Five conceptual aspects of organizational openness - Two readings for each session (2) Seminar - Presentations on different open phenomena - Essay connecting concepts with phenomena, to be handed in by June 2, 11:59 p.m, 2023
- 22. Lecture Topics: Conceptsof Openness Concepts Readings Openness as a Paradigm Armbrüster & Gebert (2002) Tkacz (2012) Openness and Boundaries Hernes (2004) Santos & Eisenhardt (2005) Openness and Transparency Fenster (2015) Heimstädt & Dobusch (2020) Openness and Participation Mantere & Vaara (2008) Child (2021) Openness and Inclusion Dobusch (2014) Shore et al. (2011)
- 23. Lecture Format (1) Wiki-basedcollection of questions on readings - enter one question on each reading in course wiki - deadline for submitting questions: 3 p.m. on day before lecture - submitting questions is an exam requirement (2) Group discussion of selected questions - lecture starts with discussion in groups of 4-5 - selected questions for each group (3) Plenary discussion and lecture on key points - share and discuss answers to questions in plenary - key points of texts emphasized in lecture format
- 24. Seminar Topics: OpenPhenomena Phenomena Illustrative examples and articles Open* Examples: Open Source, Open Hardware,… Text: Pollock, R. (2018) Open Education Examples: Serlo.org, ZUM.de, OpenCourseWare Text: Butcher, N. (2015) Open Innovation Examples: Innocentive, GE Open Innovation Portal Text: Sieg et al. (2010) Open Collaboration Examples: Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap Text: Jemielniak (2016) Open Strategy Examples: Wikimedia Strategy Process, Buffer Text: Hautz et al. (2017) Open Government Examples: data.gov, FixMyStreet Text: Janssen et al. (2012) 24
- 25. Seminar Format (1) Groupsof 4 working on each open phenomenon - share & discuss cases, sources, insights, problems - self-assign members to focus on one concept (2) Lightning talks on phenomena & concepts - each group member focuses on different concept - use at least one specific empirical case - length: max. 10 minutes (3) Essay on topic of lightning talk - focus one thesis/insight/point - incorporate feedback - length: 3-4 pages (Times, 12pt, 1.5 line spacing)
- 26. Next Steps: ‣ Readtexts for next meetings ‣ Enter questions in course wiki Please remember: ‣ Deadline for questions is 3 p.m. on day before session ‣ Don't repeat questions already asked
- 27. E-Mail: Leonhard.Dobusch@uibk.ac.at Twitter/Mastodon: @leonidobusch/ @leonido@chaos.social Web: bit.ly/LD-UIBK // dobusch.net Research blogs: osconjunction.net governancexborders.com Contact