Firms as incubators of open-source software

Information Systems Research

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 22-38

  Mehra, Amit ^a   Dewan, Rajiv ^b   Freimer, Marshall ^b  

^a INDIAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Business models; Game theory; Learning by doing; Open source software; Principal agent; Programmer compensation; Programmer incentives; Signalling

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955877058     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1090.0276     Document Type: Article

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