Selected Research
* “The Ecology of Crowdfunding: Global Bias Welcome in the Geography of Investments”, Villarroel J.A., Onofre D.
– In Proceedings of the Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2013. Orlando, Florida, USA, August, 2013.
* “Crowdsourcing Corporate Innovation: Bridging Knowledge Silos of the Multi-Business Firm”, Villarroel J.A., Reis F.
– In Proceedings of the Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2012. Boston, Massachusetts, USA, August, 2012.
* “A Stock Market approach to Online Distributed Innovation : The tradeoff between speculation and innovation performance“, Villarroel J.A., Reis F.
– ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce 2011, Workshop on Social Computing and User Generated Content. San Jose, California, USA. June 5, 2011.
* “Intra-Corporate Crowdsourcing ( ICC ) : Leveraging rank and site marginality for innovation”, Villarroel J.A., Reis F.
– CrowdConf 2010, The World’s First Conference on the Future of Distributed Work. San Francisco, California, USA, October 4, 2010.
– 8th Annual International Open and User Innovation Workshop” (MIT Sloan, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, August 3, 2010.
* “A Stock Market for Innovation (SMI) : Unveiling the effects of gambling behavior on innovation performance”, Villarroel J.A., Reis F.
– In Proceedings of Informatik 2010, Service Science – Neue Perspektiven für die Informatik, ISBN 978-3-88579-269-7. Leipzig, Germany, Sep 27-Oct 1, 2010.
* “Competitive advantage from knowledge brokering in distributed innovation”. Villarroel J.A., Taylor J.E., Tucci C.L.
– In Proceedings of the Strategic Management Society International Conference. Rome, Italy, September 12-15, 2010.
* “Open Source Corporate Strategy: Motivating firm-sponsored online collective work”, Villarroel J.A., Tucci C.L.
– In Proceedings of the Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2009. Chicago, Illinois, USA, August 7-11, 2009.
– A version of this article, studying motivation in crowdlabor markets — specifically Amazon Mechanical Turk —, is available as MIT Sloan research paper No. 4767-10: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1536209
* “Performance implications of knowledge brokering in open source Communities of Practice”, Villarroel J.A., Taylor J.E.
– In Proceedings of the Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2008. Anaheim, California, USA, August 8-13, 2008.
* “Managing competing Communities of Practice: The impact of open source and knowledge-bridging on system-level learning”, Villarroel J.A., Taylor J.E.
– In Proc. North American Association for Computational Social and Organization Sciences (NAACSOS), Emory University, June 2007. Winner, Best Paper Award.
* “An agent-based approach to examine the ‘network knowledge advantage’ in open innovation networks: Firm openness and interorganizational network performance”, Villarroel J.A., Taylor J.E.
– In Proceedings Agent Conference, University of Chicago, Sep. 2006.
* “Simulating learning in interorganizational networks: The insidious role of task interdependence and relational instability in system-level learning”, with Taylor J.E, Levitt R.
– In Proceedings NAACSOS Conference, University of Notre Dame, June 2006. Winner, Best Paper Award.