known about how the direction of search strategies influences innovation performance. In this paper, we argue that firms … that being open for innovation generally pays off. However, both moderating factors have a crucial role to play: On the one … novel knowledge and to enhance innovation performance. We develop targeted management recommendations based on these results. …

There is considerable debate regarding the use of intellectual property rights (IPR) to spur innovation in the software … developing a growth optimal mixture of open source and closed source software. This optimal scenario is then used as a basis to … examine the co-existence of open and closed source software within various institutional frameworks ranging from no protection …

The primary findings of our study suggest that software firms that adopt the OSS-based business model are notably less … productive than companies that merely offer proprietary software solutions. Our estimation results further show that the OSS … model use has not substantially improved the performance of software firms, we find that the OSS business model adopters …

Recently the software industry has experienced fundamental changes in market structure through the entry of open source … market structure from monopoly to duopoly under the assumption that software producers compete in technology rather than … price or quantities. The model includes the presence of technological progress and menu costs of adjusting existing software …

open source software. We argue that the particular way in which open source projects are managed and especially how … superior capabilities. With this incentive they will forgo the immediate rewards they could earn in software companies … producing proprietary software by restricting the access to the source code of their product. Whenever institutional …

between two IPR regimes: open source software (OSS) or closed source software (CSS). The share of new firms with an OSS …

Crowdsourcing is a concept that first appeared in an article written by Jeff Howe in 2006 in the Wired Magazine in … Crowdsourcing directly impact on the variables of the mix-marketing such as product development, price positioning, distribution and … Crowdsourcing in the coming years. …

Our study aims at shedding light on the innovative business strategies in the software sector and particularly … providing a better understanding of the economics underlying the supply of Open Source Software (OSS). We use survey data … collected from 170 Finnish software companies to investigate the determinants of the choice of OSS production. Our study focuses …

may even reduce welfare. The reason is that it crowds out proprietary innovation which on net may reduce total innovation … in the long run. These effects would be reinforced if philanthropical innovation diverted people from other productive …

For a decade, economists have been fascinated by the phenomenon of open source software (OSS). OSS is marked by free … access to the software and its source code. It is developed in a public, collaborative manner by thousands of non … property paradigm. This paper provides an introduction into the topic OSS versus closed source software (CSS, also called …