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Business Models in the Software Market and the Italian Firms' Involvement in Open Source Activities

Rocchetti, Gaia - 2012

Open Source software, developed by a community of mostly volunteers programmers and available on the web free of charge … source software depends mostly on some features of the incumbents' business models. In details, the probability to carry out … carried out a Survey, on a sample of about 200 firms. The analysis of the survey data shows that the limited diffusion of open …

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Coexistence and Market Tipping in a Diffusion Model of Open Source vs. Proprietary Software

Leoncini, Riccardo; Rentocchini, Francesco; Vittucci … - 2012

A large number of studies has been canvassed by the growing rates of diffusion of Open Source Software. However, a …’ motivations for open–source software) upon which such a process of competition ultimately depends. Moreover, we add network …

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FLOSS in an Industrial Economics Perspective

Jullien, Nicolas; Zimmermann, Jean-Benoît - 2012

Free/Libre Open Source software (FLOSS) diffusion represents one of the main evolutions of the Information Technology …

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How Communities Support Innovative Activities : An Exploration of Assistance and Sharing Among End-Users

Shah, Sonali K.; Franke, Nikolaus - 2012

This study contributes to our understanding of the innovation process by bringing attention to and investigating the process by which innovators outside of firms obtain innovation-related resources and assistance. This study is the first to explicitly examine how user-innovators gather the...

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How Firms Can Strategically Influence Open Source Communities : The Employment of ‘Men on the Inside’

Lee, Viktor - 2012

Firms have discovered that open source (OS) communities can be valuable sources of innovation. However, the access for firms to these communities turned to be intricate. One proven way of how firms can enter OS communities is via their personnel (“men on the inside”). Focusing on...

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

Schaarschmidt, Mario - 2012

- Managing Innovation Beyond Firm Boundaries -- Commercializing and Controlling Open Source Software Development … legal boundaries. However, in the absence of contract-based vertical command chains, such as in the case of open source … software (OSS), it is difficult for firms to obtain control over the innovation project’s trajectory. In this book, the author …

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