Open Innovation in Secondary Software Firms: An Exploration of Managers’ Perceptions of Open Source Software

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 76-95

  Morgan, Lorraine ^a   Finnegan, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adoption of Innovation; Field Study; Open Innovation; Open Source Software; Secondary Software Sector

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015514715     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1719051.1719056     Document Type: Article

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