User-Generated Open Source Products: Founder's Social Capital and Time to Product Release

Mallapragada, Girish; Grewal, Rajdeep; Lilien, Gary L.

doi:10.1287/mksc.1110.0690

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“…In contrast to these studies, which dealt with tangible goods, the interest in research in user innovation was dramatically heightened by a focus on information goods that became more widespread through the Internet (Franke & von Hippel, 2003;Ichikohji & Katsumata, 2014, 2016a, 2016bJeppesen, 2005;Lakhani & von Hippel, 2003;Lerner & Tirole, 2002). In recent years, some studies have even focused on the relationship between usage and creation (Ghose & Han, 2011;Ichikohji & Katsumata, 2016a;Mallapragada, Grewal, & Lilien, 2012). However, these did not take into account any hardware aspects.…”

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Multiple Information Devices Users in the Era of Digital Convergence

Ichikohji

Katsumata

2017

ABAS

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Predictions of a coming age of digital convergence bring to mind a convergence of the information devices used by consumers. In actuality, information devices are becoming more diversified. This study surveys and analyzes smartphone users (N = 1000) of the video-sharing service YouTube, with results showing that (1) users of a variety of information devices tend to more actively post and view videos than those that do not and (2) users are divided into two camps-those who have a variety of information devices and therefore tend to post videos and those who only use a smartphone intensively. In other words, we show that users with multiple information devices make more active use of these devices.

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Multiple Information Devices Users in the Era of Digital Convergence

Ichikohji

Katsumata

2017

ABAS

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“…In particular, internet users have become one of the main topics of innovation research (Fujita & Ikuine, 2013;Ghose & Han, 2011;Lerner & Tirole, 2002;Mallapragada, Grewal, & Lilien, 2012;Nojima, 2004). Research on innovation management about internet users has broadly focused on two main issues: attributes of innovating users and factors encouraging user innovation (Ichikohji, 2010).…”

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The Relationship between Innovation and Consumption of Internet Users

Ichikohji

Katsumata

2014

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Abstract:The relationship between innovation and consumption among internet users is not uniform. This research shows different relationships between innovation and consumption in terms of the level of involvement in music from an internet survey of 1,000 music users. We measure the level of involvement in music using the two levels of components of involvement suggested by Lastovicka and Gardner (1979). For the analysis, we divide the samples into the "high involvement" and "low involvement" groups and examine each group for their relationship between innovation, indicated by "making one's own music and posting one's songs or performances on the internet," and consumption, indicated by "average amount of money spent on music downloads per year." The results show that there are heterogeneous characteristics among high and low levels of involvement groups in the aspects of consumption and innovation behavior. In the low involvement group, users actively innovating are also actively consuming. However, in the high involvement group, there is no clear relationship between innovation and consumption. To put it concretely, the consumption per innovating user is approximately a) Faculty of Business Administration, Toyo University, 5-28-20 Hakusan, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, boruporo@hotmail.com b) Faculty of Economics, Nagasaki University, 4-2-1 Katafuchi, Nagasaki-shi, Nagasaki, Japan, katsumat@nagasaki-u.ac.jp A version of this paper was presented at the ABAS Conference 2013 Winter (Ichikohji & Katsumata, 2013). 13 (2014) Annals of Business Administrative Science 18four times more than that of non-innovating users in the low involvement group, but it is about the same in the high involvement group. In addition, the consumption per innovating user in the low involvement group is approximately two times more than that of innovating users in the high involvement group.

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“…This chapter discussed some of those key problems starting with the proliferation of volunteer and user-generated content (Mallapragada et al, 2012), which despite being a solution to existing distribution problems, poses significant quality concerns (Ingawale et al, 2013). Several studies indicate that quality plays a major role in the sustainability of an OER project (Clements & Pawlowski, 2012;Cechinel et al, Tate & Hoshek, 2009).…”

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“…Wikipedia is perhaps one of the largest and most famous examples of a database with all of its content created by users, although the accuracy of its content is largely contested (Ingawale et al, 2013). A number of companies have enabled open source to encourage users to share information about products, brands and core competencies (Di Benedetto, 2014;Pitt, et al, 2006;Mallapragada et al, 2012). While several websites like Reddit and 9Gag as well as social networking mediums such as Twitter feeds have allowed users to create and share content, it is argued that the creation of educational content by members of the public is still premature (Mallapragada et al, 2012;Noguti, 2016;Douglas, 2014).…”

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“…This chapter also reveals why the sustainability of quality is also important to OER providers. With an increasing rate of user-generated content (Mallapragada, Grewal & Lilien, 2012), online presence and interactions on social platforms (Pitt et al, 2006;Di Benedetto, 2014), the generation of OERs is gaining attention and interest. Simultaneously, content created by members of the public has also given rise to serious reliability and quality questions (Ingawale et al, 2013).…”

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The Role of Open Educational Resources (OERs) in Primary Education in Developing Nations: A Case Study of India

Ganapathi¹

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This research aims to identify how open educational resources (OERs) can contribute towards primary education, and what role they might play in increasing childhood literacy in particular, which has been identified as a prime component in ensuring educational attainment in primary school. Literature in the area largely addresses OERs and their potential to widen participation in tertiary education with a focus on developed nations, with little discussion about how OERs can be utilized in primary education. This thesis is particularly interested in the role OERs might play in primary education in developing nations where a range of challenges contribute to the low levels of literacy. In nations like India and South Africa, which are the locations of the case study organizations selected for this research, decentralized rural populations, combined with high levels of poverty, child labor and low levels of literacy and awareness cause poor attendance and access to schools. This research suggests that OERs aimed at developing literacy in primary school-aged children can overcome the distribution and access issues that contribute to low attendance and engagement with education in these nations. OERs have the capacity to bypass low levels of educational infrastructure by distributing high quality resources online in low definition formats suitable for downloading and under open licenses on platforms suitable for users to repackage, translate and re-purpose according to their particular need or audience. While there are a range of sustainability challenges for organizations with a social mission to use OERs to increase the equity and access of educational materials, these organizations have found innovative solutions taken from other online successes such as gaming and social media. Making use of volunteers and users in a community of practice to ensure that content is translated, quality is maintained and there is volume on their sites has some risks but also enables the maintenance of an open repository of materials for use, re-use, adaptation and sharing. This thesis contributes to the existing literature by shedding light into understanding these challenges from the experiences and perspectives of three case study organizations that provide OERs for children.

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User-Generated Open Source Products: Founder's Social Capital and Time to Product Release

Cited by 59 publications

References 70 publications

Multiple Information Devices Users in the Era of Digital Convergence

Multiple Information Devices Users in the Era of Digital Convergence

The Relationship between Innovation and Consumption of Internet Users

The Role of Open Educational Resources (OERs) in Primary Education in Developing Nations: A Case Study of India

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