The Transformation of Open Source Software

By Brian Fitzgerald. MIS Q., 2006

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Outsourcing to an Unknown Workforce: Exploring Opensourcing as a Global Sourcing Strategy (2008, background): “Achieving Consensus on Development Roadmap: Initially we expected that the customer would provide an explicit requirements specification of required functionality, which would be in keeping with the evolution of open source toward more formalized commercial phenomenon (Fitzgerald 2006).”
Digital product innovation within four classes of innovation networks (2016, background): “A case in point is the rapid growth of open-source innovation (Puranam & Alexy, 2014) that has followed the phenomenal success of several open-source software projects like Linux and Apache (Crowston et al ., 2012; Fitzgerald, 2006).”
The Next Generation of Research on IS Use: A Theoretical Framework of Delegation to and from Agentic IS Artifacts (2021, background): “Open source software development is characterized by code contributions from developers from around the world who communicate and collaborate through digital technology (Fitzgerald 2006; Von Krogh et al. 2012; Von Krogh and Von Hippel 2006).”
Understanding Sustained Participation in Open Source Software Projects (2009, background): “Fitzgerald [18] has argued that OSS efforts have now metamorphosed into mainstream and commercially viable forms, a phenomenon he labeled “OSS 2.0.””