We analyze the impact of institutional and cultural factors on the supply side of open source software (OSS). OSS is a … privately provided public good: it is marked by free access to the software and its source code, and is developed in a public …

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 …

This paper looks at price and quality competition in software markets under two different forms of competition - one … faces competition from an open source software firm that allows its users to determine quality level and provides the … software at zero price. We find that OSS competition never improves quality for consumers who value quality highly. However, it …

This article contributes to research on the geographic origin of open source software (OSS) developers by analyzing the …

In the ICT sector, product-software is an important factor for the quality of the products (e.g. cell phones). In this … context, open source software enables firms to avoid quality competition as they can cooperate on quality without an explicit … software, either as OS or CS, or as a an OS-CS-mix if the license allows. In stage two, firms bundle this with complementary …

Traditionally, SDO-based open standardisation and open source standards have been used in different sectors: the … (mostly) hardware-based telecommunications industry and the software-based IT industry, respectively. However, the increasing …

This paper considers a dynamic model of the evolution of open source software projects, focusing on the evolution of … source software are motivated by reciprocal altruism to publish their own improvements. The evolution of the open …