The costs of 3D printing have rapidly fallen and have thus provoked new interest in this technology, which by itself does not pose a revolutionary challenge. Prima facie, it seems to present a fitting analogy to the extreme price declines in computing that Christensen described as the...

Die Arbeit untersucht die Koordination und Kollaboration von Entwicklern in 29 Open Source Projekten empirisch. Dazu werden Analyseverfahren und standardisierte Messwerte aus der Sozialen Netzwerkanalyse angewendet, um Einflussfaktoren und Variablen zu identifizieren welche die Art und Weise der...

This paper develops an inductive theory of the open source software innovation process by focusing on the creation of Freenet, a project aimed at developing a decentralized and anonymous peer-to-peer electronic file sharing network. We are particularly interested in the strategies and processes...