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How open Is Open Source?: Software and beyond

Publikationstyp
Book Part
Date Issued
2015-02-11
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Balka, Kerstin  
Raasch, Antje-Christina  
Herstatt, Cornelius  
Institut
Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement W-7  
TORE-URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11420/10103
Start Page
215
End Page
228
Citation
Open Source Innovation: The Phenomenon, Participant's Behaviour, Business Implications: 215-228 (2015-02-11)
Publisher Link
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315754482-14/open-open-source-kerstin-balka-christina-raasch-cornelius-herstatt
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-84959934759
Publisher
Routledge
Is Part Of
isbn:9781315754482
10.4324/9781315754482
Traditionally, the protection of intellectual property is regarded as a precondition for value capture. The rise of open source (OS) software and OS tangible products, so-called open design, has challenged this understanding. Openness is often regarded as a dichotomous variable (open-source vs. closed-source) and it is assumed that online developer communities demand full opening of the product's source. In this paper we will explore openness as a gradual and multi-dimensional concept. We carried out an Internet survey (N = 270) among participants of 20 open design communities in the domain of IT hardware and consumer electronics. We find that open design projects pursue complex strategies short of complete openness and that communities value openness of software more highly than openness of hardware. Our findings suggest that open design companies can successfully implement strategies of partial openness to safeguard value capture without alienating their developer community.
DDC Class
330: Wirtschaft
600: Technik
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