The penguin has entered the building: The commercialization of open source software products

Organization Science

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 292-305

  Fosfuri, Andrea ^a   Giarratana, Marco S ^a   Luzzi, Alessandra ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION   (Spain)

Author keywords

Complementary assets; Open source software; Patents and trademarks; Product introductions

Indexed keywords

EID: 60449100100     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1070.0321     Document Type: Article

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