We study competitive interaction between profit-maximizing firms that sell software and complementary goods or services. In addition to tactical price competition, we allow firms to compete through business model reconfigurations. We consider three business models: the proprietary model (where...

In this paper I study how innovation investment in a software duopoly is affected by the fact that one of the firms is, or might become Open Source. Firms can either be proprietary source (PS) or open source (OS) and have different initial technological levels. An OS firm is a for profit...

The open source model is a form of software development with source code that is typically made available to all interested parties. At the core of this process is a decentralized production process: open source software development is done by a network of unpaid software developers. Using data...

The objective of this paper is the design of computer supported joint actionspaces. It is argued against a view of functionality as residing in computer applications. Insuch a view the creation of functionality is equivalent to the creation of computerapplications. Functionality, in the view...

In fragmented work settings like networked organizations or virtual organizations, monolithic approaches to implement support for collaboration would require the actors involved to agree on the usage of the approach or tool under consideration. As the autonomy of actors in these settings makes...

This contribution is a long-term study of the evolving use of the organization-widegroupware in a service network. We are describing the practices related to organization-wide groupwarein conjunction with local groupware-related practices and how they have proceeded since theorganization was...

Wie in diesem Band an anderer Stelle öfter gezeigt, hat Online-Mediation in vie-len Konfliktszenarien ein gewisses Unterstützungspotential. Für die informierte Ausgestaltung konkreter technischer Systeme zur Mediationsunterstützung ist es jedoch hilfreich, Mediationserfahrungen,...