Intrinsic motivations and profit-oriented firms in open source software. Do firms practise what they preach?

OSS 2005 - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Open Source Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 241-245

  Bonaccorsi, Andrea ^a   Rossi, Cristina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPEN SYSTEMS;

BUSINESS MODELS; COMMUNITY-BASED; INTRINSIC MOTIVATION; ITALIAN COMPANIES; OPEN SOURCES;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

EID: 84870340603     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.669065     Document Type: Conference Paper

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