When does community participation enhance the performance of open source software companies?

Research Policy

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1288-1299

  Stam, Wouter ^a,b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b VU University   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Community participation; Open innovation; Open source software; Performance

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; DATA SETS; FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE; NETHERLANDS; OFFLINE; OPEN INNOVATION; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCES; PERFORMANCE;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 68949207745     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2009.06.004     Document Type: Article

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