Linux is an important phenomenon at the center of the current open source software [OSS] movement. Academic research has thus far focused on motivations of individual programmers to participate in this movement and on the economics of OSS. There has been inadequate focus on the level of network...

We develop and test a model of key determinants of software sales based on characteristics of a firm's business scope and network position - especially, cluster coefficient, degree centrality, partner diversity and linkage scope diversity. We use data on a sample of 509 firms in the packaged...