In this paper, we open up the black box that has been the introduction of open practices into firms’ commercial R&D strategies. Most of the existing research on the phenomenon of open innovation focuses on its interorganizational aspects. In contrast, the effect that the opening of boundaries...

In this paper, I describe and analyze the phenomenon of informal development collaborationbetween firms in the field of embedded Linux, a type of open source software. Toexplain the observed phenomenon of voluntary revealing, I develop a duopoly model ofquality competition. The central...

The link between firms engaging in open source software (OSS) development and the OSScommunity is established by individual developers. This linkage might entail a principalagentissue due to the developer’s double allegiance to firm and OSS community, and exposethe firm to the risk of losing...

The focus of existing open source software (OSS) research has been on how andwhy individuals and firms add to the commons of public OSS code—that is, on the“giving” side of this open innovation process. In contrast, research on thecorresponding “receiving” side of the innovation...

An important and intriguing aspect of e-entrepreneurship is theformation of new ventures in the domain of open source software (OSS).Previous research on these ventures has primarily looked at the design ofbusiness models. The purpose of this paper is to explore how three keychallenges of...