From peer production to productization: A study of socially enabled business exchanges in open source service networks

Information Systems Research

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 475-493

  Feller, Joseph ^a   Finnegan, Patrick ^a   Fitzgerald, Brian ^b   Hayes, Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Business networks; Exchange problems; Multimethod research; Open source service network; Open source software; Peer production; Social mechanisms

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; REFINING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

BUSINESS NETWORKS; EXCHANGE PROBLEMS; MULTI METHODS; PEER PRODUCTION; SERVICE NETWORK;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

EID: 61349106030     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1080.0207     Document Type: Article

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