Search Results - subject:"Open Source software"

Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the Mirroring Hypothesis

MacCormack, Alan D.; Rusnak, John; Baldwin, Carliss Y. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2008

are tightly-coupled, with respect to their goals, structure and behavior. At the other, are open source software …). Successful open source software 1 Commercial software is distributed in a … open source methods: In particular, open source software is likely to be more “modular” than closed source software …

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What Is “Open”? An Economic Analysis of Open Institutions

Deng, Feng - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

By examining several different types of open institutions including open source software, open science, open square and …

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The Provision of a Public Good with a direct Provision Technology and a Large Number of Agents

Behringer, Stefan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper provides a limit result for the provision of a public good in a mechanism design framework as the number of agents gets large. What distinguishes the public good investigated in this analysis is its direct provision technology which is commonplace in modern information technologies.

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Can open sourcing lead to inferior standards?

Koerselman, Kristian - Turun Kauppakorkeakoulu, Turun Yliopisto - 2008

I investigate the effect of open source on standardization outcomes in a market with positive network externalities. In a closed source world, it seems reasonable to assume that the probability of a standard being chosen is positively correlated with its quality. Open source may weaken or invert...

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ESTUDIO Y ANÁLISIS DE LAS LISTAS DE DISTRIBUCIÓN EN PROYECTOS DE SOFTWARE DE CÓDIGO ABIERTO COMO MEDIO PARA COMPARTIR CONOCIMIENTO / STUDY AND ANALYSIS OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJ...

Martínez Torres, R.; Toral Marín, S.L.; Barrero … - In: Investigaciones Europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 14 (2008) 3, pp. 79-90

the role of mailing lists in open source software projects as a tool for knowledge sharing and problem resolution. One of … the benefits that firms can derive from using Open Source Software (OSS) is informal development collaboration. The …

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Deployment of Open Standards in the Public Administration

IRIMESCU, Dorin - In: Informatica Economica XII (2008) 3, pp. 64-69

Open Source Software is receiving an increasing attention in the public administration. The aim of the paper is to … discuss the deployment of open source software for office automation and to present a synthesis of the up to date status. It … financial benefits. One available open source software solution in the field, the Open Office suite, is presented as a viable …

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Motivation and Sorting in Open Source Software Innovation

Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008

This paper studies the role of intrinsic motivation, reputation, and reciprocity in driving open source software … CEP Discussion Paper No 893 October 2008 Motivation and Sorting in Open Source Software Innovation Sharon … reciprocity in driving open source software innovation. We exploit the observed pattern of contributions – the ‘revealed …

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Informational Hold-Up, Disclosure Policy, and Career Concerns on the Example of Open Source Software Development

Blatter, Marc; Niedermayer, Andras F. - 2008

We consider software developers who can either work on an open source project or on a closed source project. The former provides a publicly available signal about their talent, whereas the latter provides a signal only observed by their employer. We show that a talented employee may initially...

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Can we exploit collective intelligence for collaborative deliberation? : the case of the climate change

Landoli, Luca; Klein, Mark; Zollo, Giuseppe - 2008

Current open-source/peer-production technologies, such as forums, wikis and blogs, have enabled an unprecedented explosion of global knowledge sharing, but appear to be less successful at enabling collaborative deliberation (i.e. the systematic enumeration, analysis, and selection of solution...

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Open source innovation : characteristics and applicability outside the software industry

Raasch, Christina; Herstatt, Cornelius; Abdelkafi, Nizar - 2008

Motivation of this paper is to discuss that the open source model of innovation does not only seem practical in the software industry, but also in various other industrial contexts. We develop the concept of Open Source Innovation (OSI) as a generalisation of the open source model of software...

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