Bazaar by Design: Managing Interfirm Exchanges in an Open Source Service Network

Abstract

As in many other sectors, competitive

Outsourcing to an Unknown Workforce: Exploring Opensurcing as a Global Sourcing Strategy

“…The particular characteristics of OSS position it as a good exemplar of the "whole-product" concept of a market-driven business approach that seeks to deliver a complete solution to the customer in terms of products and services (Feller et al 2008). In this scenario, developers do the coding while others complete the business model by adding sales and marketing services-necessary activities but ones in which developers may not be interested.…”

Governing open source software through coordination processes

“…Even in cases where hybrid governance is discussed, the premise of the work is that a new singular authority structure emerges through the process of hybridization (De Noni et al 2013;Markus 2007;O'Mahony 2007;O'Mahony and Ferraro 2007;Shah 2006;Tullio and Staples 2014). This rich literature also tellingly tends to conflate governance with coordination (Alexy et al 2013;Dahlander and O'Mahony 2011;Feller et al 2008). Arguably, similar concerns have been raised previously, especially in the CSCW literature (Malone 1987;Olson et al 2001;Olson and Olson 2000;Schmidt and Simonee 1996).…”