intangible components, namely the software necessary for their operation, we have chosen to address in this paper the problems of … software products and the principles of circular economy. Thus, the paper presents the main opportunities and challenges that … circular economy involves for all stakeholders, namely manufacturers of electronic goods and developers of the related software …

In enterprise software markets, firms are increasingly using services-based business models built on open …-source software (OSS) to compete with established, proprietary software firms. Because thirdparty firms can also strategically … contribute to OSS and compete in the services market, the nature of competition between OSS constituents and proprietary software …

To distribute software, commercial vendors of proprietary software have the opportunity to use some dual licensing (DL …) strategy i.e. to provide their software under two different licensing terms (proprietary and open source). We investigate the … relevance and impacts of this distribution strategy in the presence of an incumbent open source software competitor. We …

This Article analyzes legal protection for open-source software by comparing it to the venerable civil law tradition of … software use be royalty free. These conditions facilitate open-source collaborative software development. At the heart of both … Collaborative Integrity of open-source software. The history and legacy of moral rights help us better understand Collaborative …

Free/Libre Open Source software (FLOSS) diffusion represents one of the main evolutions of the Information Technology … thus starting from the basic conditions of the computer market and of the buyers' competence in software development (the …

A central tenet of the open source software development methodology is that the community of users and developers is … instrumental in improving the quality of software. I conceptualize open source communities as information repositories to … understand how community members help in improving software quality. The information repository contains the accumulated …

Several scholars as well as industry professionals have claimed that there is a "software-biased shift" in the nature … and direction of innovation in that software development is a core part of innovation activities in firms across a wide …-level survey data on the frequency and nature of software development among firms in Sweden, matched with the Community Innovation …

Much of today's software relies on programming code shared openly online. Yet, it is unclear why volunteer developers … contribute to open-source software (OSS), a public good. We study OSS contributions of some 22,900 developers worldwide on the …