We analyze how network effects affect competition in the nascent cryptocurrency market. We do so by examining early …

contribute to OSS and compete in the services market, the nature of competition between OSS constituents and proprietary software … three player game and examine how open-source licensing affects competition among an open-source originator, open …

here. We aim to extend our understanding of this phenomenon by studying the relationship between the level of competition … higher number of users. Second, the level of competition affects the non-pecuniary benefits users can derive, impacting their …

formal analysis of the process of competition between open–source and proprietary software is still missing. We propose an … epidemic model of innovation diffusion to deal with the different factors (profits for proprietary software and developers …’ motivations for open–source software) upon which such a process of competition ultimately depends. Moreover, we add network …

countries of this region opened up their markets for multiple players, greatly enhancing competition and increasing the number …

Contests are a historically important and increasingly popular mechanism for encouraging innovation. A central concern … in designing innovation contests is how many competitors to admit. Using a unique data set of 9,661 software contests, we … implications of our findings for the theory and practice of innovation contests …