Search Results - subject:"Open source Software"

The Role of Social Conventions in the Diffusion of Open Source Software : Implications for Service Industries

Kim, Jai-Boem - 2012

In information and service products such as open source software, increasing returns occur on the production or supply … side, as well as network externalities on the demand side. For open source software, the social community element needs to … herding behaviour are fundamental to the growth of the open source software. Such social conventions legitimise value and …

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Applying Elinor Ostrom’s Rule Classification Framework to the Analysis of Open Source Software Commons

Kitsing, Meelis - 2012

This research investigates the utility of Ostrom and Crawford's rule classification framework (elaborated in Understanding Institutional Diversity) in the systematic study of rule systems in a set of relatively complex open source projects and their overarching non-profit foundation. Using this...

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Private Provision of Public Goods that are Complements for Private Goods : Application to Open Source Software Developments

Matsushima, Noriaki - 2012

This paper examines the questions of who participates in the provision of a public good through the voluntary participation of agents in the presence of strong complementarity between a public good and a private good. We show that the greater the initial endowment of the private good that agents...

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Private provision of public goods that are complements for private goods : application to open source software developments

Matsushima, Noriaki; Shinohara, Ryusuke - 2012

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Linking cyclicality and product quality

Sosa, Manuel; Mihm, Jürgen; Browning, Tyson - 2012 - Rev. vers. of 2012/23/TOM

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Investment incentives in proprietary and open-source two-sided platforms

Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Llanes, Gastón - 2012

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Democratizing Innovation

Hippel, Eric von - 2012

Innovation is rapidly becoming democratized. Users, aided by improvements in computer and communications technology, increasingly can develop their own new products and services. These innovating users - both individuals and firms - often freely share their innovations with others, creating...

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CIO Herds and User Gangs in the Adoption of Open Source Software

Sieber, Sandra - 2012

Open Source Software (OSS) has received wide attention from the research community, analyzing both the innovation …

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Intellectual Property Rights and Bio Commons : Open Source And Beyond

Srinivas, Krishna Ravi - 2012

This article advocates the use of an open source model as an alternative intellectual property rights regime for seeds and plant varieties. The BioLinux model suggested in this article is based on open source principles. The article traces the evolution of intellectual property rights and...

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The Case for Open Source Appropriate Technology

Pearce, Joshua M. - 2012

fashion as free and open-source software. OSAT is made up of technologies that are easily and economically utilized from …

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