There is an increasing spread of flexible software applications that can be modified by
adding components (sometimes called plug-ins or add-ons). A popular example in the …

Since the 1990s, the forms of production, distribution, configuration and appropriation of
software have changed fundamentally. Nowadays, software is often embedded in software …

Abstract End User Development offers technological flexibility to encourage the
appropriation of software applications within specific contexts of use. Appropriation needs to …

Co-production among product communities has turned out to be a major challenge for the
software industry. There is a growing need for evolutionary development strategies sup …

All kinds of software projects, whether open or closed source, rely on open source
components. Repositories that serve open source components to organizations, such as the …

This article highlights tool integration within software engineering environments. Tool
integration concerns the techniques used to form coalitions of tools that provide an …

Previous work has shown that the successful appropriation of technology into practice
depends heavily on users' understandings and narratives around the technology's use. Who …

Software users rely on software tools such as browser tab controls and spell checkers to
work effectively and efficiently, but it is difficult for users to be aware of all the tools that might …

This paper develops an inductive theory of the open source software (OSS) innovation
process by focussing on the creation of Freenet, a project aimed at developing a …

We investigate how an organizational structure and culture are affected by legacy products
and, in particular, if an inverse Conway's law holds:“Developer culture for a legacy product …