This paper traces the history of the development and use of the Open Source TeX typesetting program. This software was developed over three decades and came into competition with a variety of open-source and proprietary alternatives. TeX was an early and very successful open-source project that...

This study updates and extends research on foreign entry modes by examining the impacts of knowledge transfer capacity and knowledge tacitness. Research on international corporate expansion has long emphasized that deploying intangible knowledge-based assets is required for successful...

Recent scholarship has begun to assess the role of intellectual property rights in the theory of the Coasean firm. Some of this scholarship has looked at the effects of intellectual property on decisions to "make or buy" inputs to production. Other scholarship has looked at the effects of...

The interpretation of IPRs as tools for defining firm boundaries and the specialisation of production in the case of information-intensive inputs, proposed by Arora and Merges (2004) in a previous issue of Industrial and Corporate Change is both interesting and intellectually stimulating. Within...

Online, open access is the superior model for scholarly communication. A variety of scientific communities in physics, the life sciences and economics have gone furthest in innovating their scholarly communication through open access, enhancing accessibility for scientists, students and the...

The interpretation of IPRs as tools for defining firm boundaries and the specialisation of production in the case of information-intensive inputs, proposed by Arora and Merges (2004) in a previous issue of Industrial and Corporate Change is both interesting and intellectually stimulating. Within...

One fundamental challenge of technology and innovation management is for firms to decide which future technologies to develop in-house vs. buying them outside. This challenge is particularly pertinent when industries emerge, typically a time of high levels of technological uncertainty. It has...

Collaborative production of expressive content accounts for an ever growing number of copyrighted works. Indeed, in the age of content sharing and peer production, collaborative efforts may have become the paradigmatic form of authorship. Surprisingly, though, copyright law continues to view the...

This chapter describes biobanks as institutions for collection, preservation, curation, and production of knowledge and information, in both material and immaterial forms. That characterization calls for research and comparative analysis of the broad diversity of specific biobanks, using a...

This chapter provides an introduction to and overview of the knowledge commons research framework. Knowledge commons refers to an institutional approach (commons) to governing the production, use, management, and/or preservation of a particular type of resource (knowledge). The research...