Giuri, Paola; Ploner, Matteo; Rullani, Francesco; … - In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 28 (2010) 1, pp. 54-68
This paper investigates the skills and the division of labor among participants in collective inventions. Our analysis draws on a large sample of projects registered at Sourceforge.net, the world's largest incubator of open source software activity. We test the hypothesis that skill variety of...