The link between firms engaging in open source software (OSS) development and the OSScommunity is established by individual developers. This linkage might entail a principalagentissue due to the developer’s double allegiance to firm and OSS community, and exposethe firm to the risk of losing...

This paper provides a quantitative study (N = 268) of patterns of free revealing offirm-developed innovations within embedded Linux, a type of open source software (OSS). Ifind that firms, without being obliged to do so, contribute many of their own developmentsback to public embedded Linux...

Network externalities spur the growth of networks and the adoption of network goods intwo ways. First, they make it attractive to join a network with a large installed base.Second, they make it attractive for network members to actively recruit new members.Despite indications that this “peer...