Over the last few years, FLOSS (ldquo;Free Libre Open Source Softwarerdquo;) has become a commercially viable reality of the first order. It is viewed as an extreme case of open innovation, and thus of a laboratory for analysing innovation production in Internet based/knowledge based industries....

This paper aims at investigating the process of involvement in open online communities producing knowledge, via the link between the first contribution and the level of contribution reached. While most studies look at the career of contribution after the first contribution, we focus on what...

This research-in-progress aims to indentify the salient factors explaining adoption of open source software (OSS), as a technological innovation. The theoretical background of the paper is based on the technological innovation literature. We choose to focus on the open ERP case, as it is...

Algorithmic management is blamed for its over-standardization effects, which would benefit the platform owners only, and have discriminatory effects. Good practices and norms in the development and deployment of such techniques have been proposed. Here, we posit that 1) over-standardization and...