This study examines the incentives for content contribution in social media. We propose that
exposure and reputation are the major incentives for contributors. Besides, as more and …

Context Commercial open source software (COSS) and community open source software
(OSS) are two types of open source software. The former is the newer concept with the …

Diversity is a defining characteristic of global collectives facilitated by the Internet. Though
substantial evidence suggests that diversity has profound implications for a variety of …

In October of 2017, before a jam-packed hearing at City Hall in New York, Council Member
James Vacca listened to a series of testimonies that outlined two dramatically divergent …

As firms increasingly sanction an open sourcing strategy, the question of which open source
project to undertake remains tentative. The lack of established metrics makes it difficult to …

ERP systems became popular with large organizations in the 1990s. In the 21st Century,
these products were expanded by addition of supply chain management (SCM) and …

Attracting new contributors is a necessary but not a sufficient condition, to ensure the
survival and long-term success of Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) projects. The well …

In enterprise software markets, firms are increasingly using services-based business models
built on open-source software (OSS) to compete with established, proprietary software firms …

Many software products are available free of charge. While the benefits resulting from
network externality have been examined in the related literature, the effect of free offer on …

The number of malicious hacking incidents in our increasingly IT-enabled world has been
increasing over the years. Conventional wisdom focuses on negative impacts of these …