Platform-based technology ecosystems are new forms of organizing independent actors'
innovations around a stable product system. This collective organization is proving superior …

The principles of open collaboration for innovation (and production), once distinctive to open
source software, are now found in many other ventures. Some of these ventures are Internet …

We propose a dynamic structural model that illuminates the economic mechanisms shaping
individual behavior and outcomes on crowdsourced ideation platforms. We estimate the …

ABSTRACT Today, Industry 4.0 technologies, such as Big Data analytics and mobile
technologies, are forcing firms to seek new ways to create and deliver customer value. We …

Although online peer-production systems have proven to be effective in producing high-
quality content, their open call for participation makes them susceptible to ongoing quality …

In the software industry, commercial open-source software vendors have recognized that
providing services to help businesses derive greater value in the implementation of open …

Monitoring is applied in time-and-materials and revenue-sharing contracts to address the
issue of nonobservability of vendor's development effort in software outsourcing. We …

Open source software (OSS) is a form of public knowledge widely provided and relied on by
the private sector. To study the effects of growing government involvement in this critical …

Many digital products follow an open-innovation model, wherein the open boundaries
facilitate copying (forking) the codebase and creating new products, which may compete …

There are two puzzles in the software competition literature: whether both proprietary and
open source software will survive and how producers of proprietary software differentiate …