02256nam a2200205   4500999001900000008004100019100003100060245010800091260000900199300001500208520154000223650002401763650003201787650003201819650001501851773003701866906002701903942001201930952010801942  c509464d509464190509b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aLifshitz-Assaf, Hila95306  aDismantling Knowledge Boundaries at NASA: The Critical Role of Professional Identity in Open Innovation  c2018  ap.746-782.  aUsing a longitudinal in-depth field study at NASA, I investigate how the open, or peer-production, innovation model affects R&D professionals, their work, and the locus of innovation. R&D professionals are known for keeping their knowledge work within clearly defined boundaries, protecting it from individuals outside those boundaries, and rejecting meritorious innovation that is created outside disciplinary boundaries. The open innovation model challenges these boundaries and opens the knowledge work to be conducted by anyone who chooses to contribute. At NASA, the open model led to a scientific breakthrough at unprecedented speed using unusually limited resources; yet it challenged not only the knowledge-work boundaries but also the professional identity of the R&D professionals. This led to divergent reactions from R&D professionals, as adopting the open model required them to go through a multifaceted transformation. Only R&D professionals who underwent identity refocusing work dismantled their boundaries, truly adopting the knowledge from outside and sharing their internal knowledge. Others who did not go through that identity work failed to incorporate the solutions the open model produced. Adopting open innovation without a change in R&D professionals’ identity resulted in no real change in the R&D process. This paper reveals how such processes unfold and illustrates the critical role of professional identity work in changing knowledge-work boundaries and shifting the locus of innovation. - Reproduced.  aOrganisations95307  aKnowledge management 95308  aProfessional identity95309  aNASA95310  aAdministrative Science Quarterly  aScientific innovations  2ddccAR  00102ddc40709383407aIIPAbIIPAd2019-05-09h63(4), Dec, 2018: p.746-782.pAR119639r2019-05-09yAR