Firms in Open Source Software Development : Managing Innovation Beyond Firm Boundaries

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Foreword; Preface; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Chapter 1 Introduction; 1.1 Motivation; 1.2 Research Questions and Dissertation Goal; 1.3 Anchorage in Philosophy of Science; 1.4 Positioning of the Dissertation; 1.5 Structure and Outline; Chapter 2 Managing Innovation Beyond Firm Boundaries; 2.1 Defining the R&D Boundaries of the Firm; 2.1.1 New Institutional Thoughts on Firm Boundaries; 2.1.2 A Resource-Based View on R&D Boundaries of the Firm; 2.1.3 Appropriation and Appropriability Beyond Firm Boundaries; 2.2 Opening Firm Boundaries for Innovation

2.2.1 Customer Co-creation, User, and Community Innovation2.2.2 Knowledge Spillover and External Technology Exploitation; 2.2.3 Open Innovation as an Integrative Perspective on Firm Boundaries; 2.3 Organizing for Innovation Across Firm Boundaries; 2.3.1 Challenges of Managing Innovation Externally; 2.3.2 A Firm's Absorptive and Knowledge Management Capacity; 2.3.3 Extending Knowledge Management Capacity for Open Innovation; 2.4 Summary; Chapter 3 Commercializing and Controlling Open Source Software Development; 3.1 Exploring the Open Source Phenomenon

3.1.1 A Brief Introduction to Open Source Software Development3.1.2 Granting Access to the Use of Intellectual Property by Licensing; 3.1.3 Open Source Software and Intellectual Property Management; 3.1.4 Open Source as Resource Allocation Beyond Firm Boundaries; 3.2 Exposing Characteristics of Business Models; 3.2.1 Similarities and Disparities of Business Model Definitions; 3.2.2 Modularity in Technologies, Organizations, and Business Models; 3.2.3 Platforms and the 'Razor-Razor Blade Model'; 3.2.4 Hybrid Value Creation and Capture With Business Models

3.3 Commercializing Open Source Software Through Business Models3.3.1 Commercial Versus Community Open Source Software; 3.3.2 Benefits from Using, Contributing to and Revealing Open Source Software; 3.3.3 Open Source Software and Business Models; 3.3.4 Hybrid Open Source Business Models and Side Effects; 3.4 Extending Control Theory for Managing Open Source Innovation; 3.4.1 Boundary Organizations for Open Source Innovation; 3.4.2 Tensions of Convergent and Divergent Interests in Boundary Organizations and the Emerging Need for Control; 3.4.3 Governance and Control in Organizations

3.4.4 Firm Control in Boundary Organizations3.5 Summary; Chapter 4 Open Source in Action I: Business Collaboration Among Open Source Projects; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Open Source Software Projects as R&D Alliances; 4.3 Open Source Software and Different Forms of Collaboration; 4.4 Hypotheses Development; 4.4.1 Part I: Open Source and R&D Alliances; 4.4.2 Part II: Firm Control in Open Source Collaboration; 4.5 Research Design; 4.5.1 Research Objective: The Eclipse Foundation; 4.5.2 The Process of Data Gathering; 4.5.3 Operationalization of Variables; 4.6 Results

4.6.1 Part I: Open Source and R&D Alliances

10.1007/978-3-8349-4143-5 [DOI]

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