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Dragging developers towards the core: How the free/libre/open source software community enhances developers' contribution
Rullani, Francesco - 2006
The paper presents a dynamic perspective on the landscape of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) developers' motivations and tries to isolate mechanisms sustaining developers' contribution over time. The first part of the paper uses data gathered by the empirical studies relative to the...
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Open Source as a Signalling Device - An Economic Analysis
Lee, Samuel; Moisa, Nina; Weiß, Marco - 2003
Open source projects produce goods or standards that do not allow for the appropriation of private returns by those who contribute to their production. In this paper we analyze why programmers will nevertheless invest their time and effort to code open source software. We argue that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316312
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Softwareentwicklung im Netzwerk: Kooperation, Hierarchie und Wettbewerb in einem Open Source-Projekt
Brand, Andreas - 2009
Bedeutung erlangt. In dieser Arbeit wird die Zusammenarbeit der Open Source-Mitarbeiter bei der Softwareentwicklung anhand einer … Einfluss der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik (IuK) auf die hoch virtuelle Zusammenarbeit der Softwareentwicklung … Softwareentwicklung eine manchmal auch bedeutende Rolle spielen. Ausgehend von diesem Befund werden erste Anstrengungen durchgeführt, eine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291021
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Intellectual property rights and ex-post transaction costs: the case of open and closed source software
von Engelhardt, Sebastian - 2008
The economic characteristics of software and transaction costs explain, why closed source and open source software co-exist. It is about the efficient use of a non- and anti-scarce resource. But because of ex-post transaction costs that lead to information asymmetries, some property rights...
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Open source software, closed source software or both: impacts on industry growth and the role of intellectual property rights
von Engelhardt, Sebastian; Swaminathan, Sushmita - 2008
There is considerable debate regarding the use of intellectual property rights (IPR) to spur innovation in the software industry. In this paper we focus on the choice of intellectual property right regimes and industry growth. We begin by developing a growth optimal mixture of open source and...
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Quality competition or quality cooperation? License-type and the strategic nature of open source vs. closed source business models
von Engelhardt, Sebastian - 2010
In the ICT sector, product-software is an important factor for the quality of the products (e.g. cell phones). In this context, open source software enables firms to avoid quality competition as they can cooperate on quality without an explicit contract. The economics of open source (OS) versus...
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On platforms, incomplete contracts, and open source software
Niedermayer, Andras - 2007
We consider a firm A initially owning a software platform (e.g. operating system) and an application for this platform. The specific knowledge of another firm B is needed to make the platform successful by creating a further application. When B's application is completed, A has incentives to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316074
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What economists know about open source software its basic principles and research results
von Engelhardt, Sebastian - 2011
For a decade, economists have been fascinated by the phenomenon of open source software (OSS). OSS is marked by free access to the software and its source code. It is developed in a public, collaborative manner by thousands of non-paid volunteers as well as profit seeking firms. Today, OSS is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281669
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Specialized search and innovation performance: evidence across Europe
Sofka, Wolfgang; Grimpe, Christoph - 2009
Searching for external knowledge has frequently been characterized as crucial for firm success. However, little is known about how the direction of search strategies influences innovation performance. In this paper, we argue that firms need to specialize their search strategy and that its...
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Young, open and international: the impact of search strategies on the internationalization of new ventures
Zimmermann, Jörg; Grimpe, Christoph; Sofka, Wolfgang - 2009
Young firms with the ability to internationalize early and decisively have received much attention in recent academic discussion. However, relatively little is known about the underlying processes that enable them to skip several stages of the internationalization process. We contribute to this...
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