intangible components, namely the software necessary for their operation, we have chosen to address in this paper the problems of … software products and the principles of circular economy. Thus, the paper presents the main opportunities and challenges that … circular economy involves for all stakeholders, namely manufacturers of electronic goods and developers of the related software …

Much of today’s software relies on programming code shared openly online. Yet, it is unclear why volunteer developers … contribute to open-source software (OSS), a public good. We study OSS contributions of some 22,900 developers worldwide on the …

Much of today's software relies on programming code shared openly online. Yet, it is unclear why volunteer developers … contribute to open-source software (OSS), a public good. We study OSS contributions of some 22,900 developers worldwide on the …

A review of the basic theory of optimal open-source software contributions points to three key factors affecting supply … large-scale software developer surveys are inadequate for measuring the relative importance of these three factors. Moreover …