The case study of the Mozilla project is focused on the organization of quality control and quality assurance in a distributed innovation environment, and focuses on the coordination of the detection and correction of operating defects ('bugs') in Mozilla's Firefox web-browser. Analyzing two...

This note describes a new database on innovative start-ups and companies, called Crunchbase, with a focus on its potential for economic and managerial research. Crunchbase is rapidly being discovered by scholars from different fields. It has notably already informed studies on specific sectors...

We investigate teamwork among maintainers of open source software projects by analyzing the logs of a set of 10 large projects. Our first results suggest that collaboration among maintainers in large open-source projects seems to be generally influenced by the complexity of files as measured by...

The article investigates the allocation of collaborative efforts among core developers (maintainers) of open source software by analyzing on-line development traces (logs) for a set of 10 large projects. We specifically investigate whether the division of labor within open-source projects is...

In this paper we investigate how in commons based peer production a large community of contributors coordinates its efforts towards the production of high quality open content. We carry out our empirical analysis at the level of articles and focus on the dynamics surrounding their production....