Guarding the commons: how community managed software projects protect their work

By Siobhan O’Mahony. 2003

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Subfields: Accounting, Computer Science Applications, Finance

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Motivation, Governance, and the Viability of Hybrid Forms in Open Source Software Development (2006, background): “(Richard Stallman as quoted in O’Mahony 2003, p. 1183) It appears that the GPL was initially designed to institutionalize reciprocity in an attempt to seed a community.”
Wisdom or Madness? Comparing Crowds with Expert Evaluation in Funding the Arts (2016, unknown): “…– such as crowdsourcing (Poetz & Schreier, 2012), innovation tournaments (Boudreau, Lacetera, & Lakhani, 2010; Terwiesch & Ulrich, 2009), and collective and group innovation (Jeppesen & Frederiksen, 2006; O’Mahony, 2003) – ultimately have an expert authority overseeing the actions of the crowd.”
Exploring motivations for contributing to open source initiatives: The roles of contribution context and personal values (2008, background): “It is one of the largest hosts of free software and open source projects (O’Mahony, 2003).”
Swept Away by the Crowd? Crowdfunding, Venture Capital, and the Selection of Entrepreneurs (2013, unknown): “Chen, 2008; Ray, 2006), innovation tournaments (Boudreau, Lacetera, & Lakhani, 2010; Terwiesch & Ulrich, 2009), and collective and group innovation (Jeppesen & Frederiksen, 2006; O’Mahony, 2003).”
Where do transactions come from? Modularity, transactions, and the boundaries of firms (2007, background): “(7)Recently, some of these zones have been incorporated as nonprofit foundations (O’Mahony, 2003).”
Exploring the Foundations of Cumulative Innovation: Implications for Organization Science (2007, background): “While the community collectively monitors the reuse of open-source code and may use cease and desist letters, their primary enforcement mechanism is the normative threat of public opinion (O’Mahony 2003).”
Code Reuse in Open Source Software (2008, methodology): “apply to protect their work ( O'Mahony,2003 ), this software can be used, reused, and built”
Perspectives on Innovation Processes (2013, background): “In addition, formal institutional arrangements such as the General Public License ensure that resources based on contributions released under this license are available to others (O’Mahony, 2003).”
A man on the inside: Unlocking communities as complementary assets (2006, background): “Several authors (Dahlander and Magnusson, 2005; Lerner and Tirole, 2002; O’Mahony, 2003) have recognized that these models have become increasingly intertwined.”