Open source networks: An exploration of business model and agility issues

Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Feller, Joseph ^a   Finnegan, Patrick ^a   Hayes, Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Agility; Business models; Business networks; Open source software

Indexed keywords

AGILITY; BUSINESS MODELS; BUSINESS NETWORKS; COMPLETE PRODUCTS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCES; OPEN-SOURCE NETWORK; REVENUE STREAMS; SERVICE OFFERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84870633317     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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