The notion of 'ecosystems' provides an attractive metaphor to describe a range of value
creating interactions and relationships between sets of interconnected organizations. First …

Abstract Information systems (IS) researchers often explore complex phenomena that result
from the interplay between technologies and human actors; as such, IS research frequently …

Crowdsourcing is an emerging and promising approach which involves delegating a variety
of tasks to an unknown workforce-the crowd. Crowdsourcing has been applied quite …

This paper develops and illustrates the theory of collaboration through open superposition:
the process of depositing motivationally independent layers of work on top of each other …

Many countries are facing the twin pressures of austerity and recession following the 2007–
2008 global financial crisis. This paper uses the UK public sector and a major national …

This paper examines the within-industry diversification of software small and medium
enterprises that collaborate with the open source software community (OSS SMEs). In doing …

Many organisations are dependent upon long-term sustainable software systems and
associated communities. In this paper we consider long-term sustainability of Open Source …

Many organizations nowadays strive for utilization of benefits offered by global software
engineering (GSE) and sourcing strategies are thus discussed more often. Since there are …

Although considerable progress has been made in understanding the determinants of risk
perception and in identifying the necessary components of effective food risk and benefit …

Open source software has witnessed an exponential growth in the last two decades and it is
playing an increasingly important role in many companies and organizations leading to the …