The Open Source Movement: Key Research Questions

313 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Emergence of New Project Teams from Open Source Software Developer Networks: Impact of Prior Collaboration Ties (2008, background): “One of the main reasons cited for the failure of OSS projects is the lack of developers in the project teams, or the inability of the project to bring together a critical mass of developers (Lerner and Tirole 2001, O'Reilly 1999, von Krogh et al. 2003).”
Two-Sided Markets: A Tentative Survey (2005, background): “In so doing, these authors establish a link with another nascent literature: that on open-source software ( Lerner and Tirole, 2001, 2002; and Mustonen, 2003).”
Entry Strategies Under Competing Standards: Hybrid Business Models in the Open Source Software Industry (2006, background): “reputation among peers and signal their talent to software houses ( Lerner and Tirole, 2001 ).”
Why Open Source software can succeed (2003, unknown): “…of Open Source developers, deeply analysed by the founder fathers of the movement, have started to interest also the economic theory as the phenomenon went out from universities and research centres, became “tremendously successful” (Lerner e Tirole, 2001, 819) and create new and often lucky…”