Adaptive Entry Strategies under Dominant Standards - Hybrid Business Models in the Open Source Software Industry

Bonaccorsi, Andrea; Lamastra, Cristina Rossi; Giannangeli, Silvia

doi:10.2139/ssrn.519842

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“…OSS could increase the speed of diffusion of a given standard, and firms could then benefit by exploiting products that are complementary to that standard. Recent research based on survey data provides empirical evidence on the latter point (Henkel 2006, Gruber and Henkel 2006, Bonaccorsi et al 2006. We contribute to this literature first by offering, to the best of our knowledge, the most comprehensive data on commercialization patterns in OSS, and second by providing a framework for understanding whether preexisting stocks of intellectual property rights can (or cannot) be useful complementary assets that allow firms to benefit directly or indirectly from using OSS code in commercial products.…”

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The Penguin Has Entered the Building: The Commercialization of Open Source Software Products

Fosfuri

Giarratana

Luzzi

2008

Organization Science

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Previous literature on open source software (OSS) mostly analyzes organizational issues within communities of developers and users. This paper focuses on for-profit organizations that release software products under OSS licenses, and argues that variations in their endowments of intellectual property rights, namely patents and trademarks, help to determine which firms will tend to incorporate OSS into commercial products. We explain whether and under what conditions preexisting stocks of intellectual property rights can be useful complementary assets that allow firms to benefit directly or indirectly from commercializing OSS products, and test our hypotheses on a novel data set built on firms' announcements of OSS product releases in the specialized press between 1995 and 2003. We find three robust results: (a) firms with large stocks of software patents are more likely to release OSS products; (b) firms with large stocks of software trademarks are less likely to release OSS products; (c) firms with large stocks of hardware trademarks are more likely to release OSS products.

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confidence: 96%

The Penguin Has Entered the Building: The Commercialization of Open Source Software Products

Fosfuri

Giarratana

Luzzi

2008

Organization Science

157

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“…7 These studies have established that firms try to make profits through re-packaging, supporting, providing services and embedding complementary proprietary software in hardware products. 8 We argue that there is a need for a greater understanding of the different ways that firms work together with communities, as firms' strategic decisions are not taken in isolation from this engagement. In this study we examine how firms make use of communities and how this use is associated with the firms' business models.…”

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How do Firms Make Use of Open Source Communities?

Dahlander¹,

Magnusson²

2008

Long Range Planning

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“…If he feels like irreplaceable within the project, he feels motivated according to this fact [23].  Technology Improvement: Driver for this motivational factor is the fact that an external OI-partner is seeking for product improvements or efficiency enhancements by developing existing technologies further ( [4]; [23]).  Information Distribution is perceived as motivating if the input can be utilized and help to improve a company's situation [38].…”

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How to motivate external open innovation-partners: Identifying suitable measures

Holle

Elsesser

Schuhmacher

et al. 2016

2016 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)

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Abstract--Shorter product life cycles require shorter innovation cycles which forces companies to launch new innovative products on the market at increasingly shorter intervals to stay competitive. A promising approach to face this challenge is described as the new paradigm of Open Innovation (OI) where knowledge of external partners (e.g. suppliers, product users or universities) is used to accelerate the company internal innovation process. Thereby, the motivation of external partners is, among other things, crucial for the success of an OIcollaboration. So far there is no systematic approach available in literature that provides guidance for finding the right "levers" to motivate these external partners to contribute their knowledge within an OI-collaboration. For this purpose, the present paper provides a methodology for identifying appropriate measures to motivate external partners depending on the type of cooperation (e.g. Idea Platform, Lead-UserWorkshop or Cross-Industry Innovations). Based on existing models in the research field of motivation psychology, suitable motivational factors are derived and considered. Finally, an interactive software-tool for raising the usability of the methodology is introduced.

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Adaptive Entry Strategies under Dominant Standards - Hybrid Business Models in the Open Source Software Industry

Cited by 26 publications

References 15 publications

The Penguin Has Entered the Building: The Commercialization of Open Source Software Products

The Penguin Has Entered the Building: The Commercialization of Open Source Software Products

How do Firms Make Use of Open Source Communities?

How to motivate external open innovation-partners: Identifying suitable measures

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