The sustainability of commons has benefited from Elinor Ostrom´ s analysis of shared
resources. In her work, sustainability was described in a univocal manner–successful or not …

The word Crowdsourcing–a compound contraction of Crowd and Outsourcing, was used by
Howe in order to define outsourcing to the crowd. Beyond cost, benefits for the company can …

Little is known about how communities producing collective goods govern themselves. In a
multimethod study of one open source software community, we found that members …

Our research examines how parties challenging established social systems collaborate with
defenders of those systems to achieve mutual goals. With field interviews and observations …

Breaking with many established assumptions about how innovation ought to work, open
source software projects offer eye-opening examples of novel innovation practices for …

This paper reviews current literature on open knowledge disclosure strategies used by firms.
It is usually acknowledged that for an innovative firm that does not benefit from a natural …

The paper analyzes the strategies of software firms that have entered the open source (OS)
field. The notion of the OS business model is discussed in the light of a substantial body of …

This paper analyzes the new learning and network collaboration paradigms, their motivation
and consequences. The origins of these practices are traced to the development of the …

A growing body of literature describes the open source phenomenon in the software
industry. Drawing on transaction cost economics, we propose that open source projects …

The concept of 'open source'software initially referred to software projects managed by
grassroots communities in public forums. Since 1998, the concept has been adapted and …