Divide et impera! the role of firms in large open source software consortia

15th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2009, AMCIS 2009

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages 2399-2406

  Schaarschmidt, Mario ^a   von Kortzfleisch, Harald F O ^a  

^a University of Koblenz   (Germany)

Author keywords

External knowledge; Firm driven communities; Governance structures; Open innovation; Open source software

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; EXTERNAL KNOWLEDGE; GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES; OPEN INNOVATION; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; QUALITATIVE DATA; RESEARCH DESIGNS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DIGITAL STORAGE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84870341743     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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