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 …

There is considerable debate regarding the use of intellectual property rights (IPR) to spur innovation in the software …

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 …

context, open source software enables firms to avoid quality competition as they can cooperate on quality without an explicit …

This paper looks at price and quality competition in software markets under two different forms of competition - one … where two proprietary firms first choose quality and then engage in price competition, and second where a proprietary firm … faces competition from an open source software firm that allows its users to determine quality level and provides the …