We study competitive interaction between profit-maximizing firms thatsell software and complementary goods or services. In addition totactical price competition, we allow firms to compete through businessmodel reconfigurations. We consider three business models: theproprietary model (where all...

Open innovation is a powerful framework encompassing the generation, capture, and employment of intellectual property at the firm level. We identify three fundamental challenges for firms in applying the concept of open innovation: finding creative ways to exploit internal innovation,...

Empirical research on Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) has shown that developers tend to cluster around two main roles: "core" contributors differ from "peripheral" developers in terms of a larger number of responsibilities and a higher productivity pattern. A further, cross-cutting...

Trotz intensiver Auseinandersetzung der Adoptionsforschung mit dem Einfluss von interpersoneller Kommunikation auf die Adoption von Individuen sind nur schwache oder widersprüchliche empirische Belege in der Literatur zu finden. Am Beispiel eines innovativen Anästhesiegeräts untersucht Jan...