Open source software (OSS) is marked by free access to the software and its source code. OSS is developed by a "community" consisting of thousands of contributors from all over the world. Some research was undertaken in order to analyze how global the OSS community actually is, i.e. analyze the...

Digital tools potentially enable remote collaboration. Analyzing how some 191 thousand software developers in the United States collaborate on the largest online opensource code repository platform, I find 79.8% of users clustering in only ten economic areas. Conditional on economic-area...

Die zunehmenden geopolitischen Spannungen, vor allem durch den Konflikt zwischen Russland und der Ukraine, stellen Deutschland und seine Unternehmen vor eine komplexe Bedrohungslage, die mit erhöhten Risiken aufgrund von Sabotageaktivitäten und Wirtschaftsspionage einhergeht. Vor diesem...

The paper analyzes the impact of institutional and cultural factors on a remarkable economic activity: the production of so-called open source software (OSS). OSS is marked by free access to the software and its source code. Copyright-based OSS licenses permit users to use, change, improve and...