IP modularity in software ecosystems: How SugarCRM's IP and business model shape its product architecture

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 114 LNBIP, Issue , 2012, Pages 94-106

  Waltl, Josef ^a   Henkel, Joachim ^a   Baldwin, Carliss Y ^b  

^a TUM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

^b HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Intellectual Property; Modularity; Platforms; Software Ecosystems

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY;

BUSINESS MODELS; MODULAR ARCHITECTURES; MODULAR STRUCTURES; MODULARITY; OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES; PLATFORMS; PRODUCT ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE ECOSYSTEMS; SOURCE CODES;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 84864263842     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-30746-1_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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