Using technology enhances learning, especially when teaching certain subjects. One such subject is a research class. On any level, teaching research can be particularly challenging because many students fail to grasp the value of it. Students lack previous exposure to research methodology and...

Commercial open source software (COSS) products --- privately developed software based on publicly available source code --- represent a rapidly growing, multi-billion-dollar market. A unique aspect of competition in the COSS market is that many open source licenses require firms to make certain...

Are some Open Source Software (OSS) communities more conducive to software development than others? In this study, we investigate the impact of community level networks (relationships that exist among developers in an OSS community) on member developers' productivity. Specifically, we argue that...

The open source paradigm is often defined as a collaborative effort, implying that firms and consumers come together in a non-competitive climate. We show here that open source development can arise from a competitive climate. Under competition, we find that open source is the surplus maximizing...

We examine optimal control decisions regarding pricing, network size and hiring strategy in the context of open source software development. Opening the source code to a software product often implies that consumers would not pay for the software product itself. However, revenues may be...

Spanish Abstract: Los gobiernos se enfrentan a una gran presión desde todas las direcciones: las restricciones presupuestarias, las expectativas de los ciudadanos, las tendencias demográficas, la competencia local – por nombrar algunos. El gobierno electrónico es considerado una herramienta...

A growing community that shares digital 3D designs has created an opportunity to study, encourage and stimulate innovation. This remix community allows people not only to prototype at a minimal cost but also to work on projects they are genuinely interested in (Acosta 2009; Dougherty 2012)....

To distribute software, commercial vendors of proprietary software have the opportunity to use some dual licensing (DL) strategy i.e. to provide their software under two different licensing terms (proprietary and open source). We investigate the relevance and impacts of this distribution...

There has been much attention given to the promising benefits of open source software (OSS) for the development of the domestic software industries of developing countries. This study attempts to build a base for scholarly research on the subject of OSS in developing countries by reviewing the...

We use a Hotelling linear city model to study competition between open source and proprietary software, where only the producer of the proprietary software aims at maximizing the profit. The producer of the proprietary software must decide on compatibility. Different compatibility strategies...