Outsourcing to an Unknown Workforce: Exploring Opensourcing as a Global Sourcing Strategy

By Pär J. Ågerfalk, Brian Fitzgerald. MIS Q., 2008

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Subfields: Communication, Computer Science Applications, Management Information Systems

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Towards a characterization of crowdsourcing practices (2011, background): “Ågerfalk and Fitzgerald (2008) use the term opensourcing to name the FLOSS production mode.”
Wikipedia (2014, background): “They hire programmers to modify or add modules to already-existing free software for their specific needs; or they simply take ideas from existing open source projects and develop their own proprietary software (Ågerfalk and Fitzgerald 2008).”
Understanding sustained participation in transactional virtual communities (2012, background): “The notion of TVC specified in our study is approximated by several other concepts, such as crowdsourcing and an open source software (OSS) community [1].”
Crowdsourcing: A Review and Suggestions for Future Research (2018, unknown): “Clear project milestones must be provided, along with visibility with regards to inputs and elaboration on the data gathered, so as to ensure transparency and create trust (Agerfalk and Fitzgerald, 2008).”
The Value of Crowdsourcing: Can Users Really Compete with Professionals in Generating New Product Ideas? (2012, background): “Such initiatives have consequently become known as “crowdsourcing” (Agerfalk and Fitzgerald, 2008; Howe, 2006; Pisano and Verganti, 2008; Surowiecki, 2004).”
Doing more with less? Employee reactions to psychological contract breach via target similarity or spillover during public sector organizational change (2014, unknown): “…psychological contract has been used to examine the impact of certain specific types of change including downsizing (Feldheim, 2007), outsourcing (Ågerfalk & Fitzgerald, 2008; Koh, Ang & Straub, 2004), and major restructuring (Chaudhry, Coyle-Shapiro and Wayne, 2011), where findings show that…”
A review of the IT outsourcing empirical literature and future research directions (2010, background): “…in many areas as outsourcing continues to go global, as client firms continue to experiment with new sourcing models like open sourcing (e.g., Agerfalk and Fitzgerald, 2008), and as suppliers continue to offer new types of outsourcing services (e.g., Hirschheim et al ., 2002), including the…”