The primary findings of our study suggest that software firms that adopt the OSS-based business model are notably less … productive than companies that merely offer proprietary software solutions. Our estimation results further show that the OSS … model use has not substantially improved the performance of software firms, we find that the OSS business model adopters …

The primary findings of our study suggest that software firms that adopt the OSS-based business model are notably less … productive than companies that merely offer proprietary software solutions. Our estimation results further show that the OSS … model use has not substantially improved the performance of software firms, we find that the OSS business model adopters …

goods are not well understood. This empirically oriented research uses the unique data from the software industries of five … provision of software placed in the public domain. The estimation results strongly suggest that the highly restrictive GPL … spreads particularly via the firms that have participated in the OSS development projects. The software companies supplying …

Our study aims at shedding light on the innovative business strategies in the software sector and particularly … providing a better understanding of the economics underlying the supply of Open Source Software (OSS). We use survey data … collected from 170 Finnish software companies to investigate the determinants of the choice of OSS production. Our study focuses …

This paper addresses the question of the software companies’ timing of adoption of the open source software (OSS … explain well the observed diffusion patterns of the OSS business model among the sample of 716 European software firms … price declines of the computer programs – and thus the expected declining license revenues from the proprietary software …

Our study aims at shedding light on the innovative business strategies in the soft-ware sector and particularly … providing a better understanding of the economics underlying the supply of Open Source Software (OSS). We use survey data … collected from 170 Finnish software companies to investigate the determinants of the choice of OSS production. Our study focuses …