Innovating or Doing as Told Status Differences and.pdf

Innovating or Doing as Told? Status Differences and Overlapping Boundaries in Offshore Collaboration by Natalia Levina New York University Stern School of Business Information Systems Group/ IOMS 44 West Fourth St, Suite 8-78 (KMC) New York, NY 10012 Office Phone: 212-998-0850 Email: nlevina@ And Emmanuelle Vaast Long Island University School of Business, Public Administration and Information Sciences 1 University Plaza—H700 Brooklyn, NY 11201 Office Phone: 917-306-5348 Fax: 718-488-1125 E-mail: emmanuelle.vaast@ This is a draft version of the paper that subsequently appeared with some modification in print. Please cite as: Levina N. and E. Vaast, “Innovating or Doing as Told? Status Differences and Overlapping Boundaries in Offshore Collaboration,” MIS Quarterly (32:2), June, 2008, pp. 307- 332 1 Innovating or Doing as Told? Status Differences and Overlapping Boundaries in Offshore Collaboration Acknowledgement: This work was sponsored in part by Alfred P. Sloan Industry Studies Fellowship and by the Center for Digital Eco