Multivariate data analysis with readings (2nd ed.)
Multivariate data analysis with readings (2nd ed.)
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Global software teams: collaborating across borders and time zones
Global software teams: collaborating across borders and time zones
Splitting the organization and integrating the code: Conway's law revisited
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering
A set of principles for conducting and evaluating interpretive field studies in information systems
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on intensive research in information systems
Who is an open source software developer?
Communications of the ACM - Ontology: different ways of representing the same concept
ACM SIGMIS Database - Special issue on adoption, diffusion, and infusion of IT
Understanding open source software development
Understanding open source software development
Wellsprings of Knowledge: Building and Sustaining the Sources of Innovation
Wellsprings of Knowledge: Building and Sustaining the Sources of Innovation
Two case studies of open source software development: Apache and Mozilla
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Surviving Global Software Development
IEEE Software
Information technology challenges of biodiversity and ecosystems informatics
Information Systems - Special issue: Data management in bioinformatics
The Many Meanings of Open Source
IEEE Software
Innovation Happens Elsewhere: How and Why a Company Should Participate in Open Source
Innovation Happens Elsewhere: How and Why a Company Should Participate in Open Source
Open Source Software Development: A Case Study of FreeBSD
METRICS '04 Proceedings of the Software Metrics, 10th International Symposium
IT Outsourcing Success: A Psychological Contract Perspective
Information Systems Research
A framework for information technology outsourcing risk management
ACM SIGMIS Database
Information Systems Research
Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCHI conference on Creativity & cognition
The transformation of open source software
MIS Quarterly
Discursive construction of 'user innovations' in the open source software development context
Information and Organization
Firm-oriented success factors of an open source software (OSS) product
Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Free/Libre/Open Source Software Research and Development
Information and Software Technology
Proceedings of the 2010 conference on Bridging the Socio-technical Gap in Decision Support Systems: Challenges for the Next Decade
Seeing eye to eye? An exploratory study of free open source software users' perceptions
Journal of Systems and Software
Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
International Journal of Information Technology and Management
How Peripheral Developers Contribute to Open-Source Software Development
Information Systems Research
Understanding sustained participation in transactional virtual communities
Decision Support Systems
Strategies for software-based hybrid business models
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Adoption of open source software in organizations: A socio-cognitive perspective
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Toward an Enacted Approach to Understanding OSS Developer's Motivations
International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction
A Study of Open Source Software Development from Control Perspective
Journal of Database Management
Emergence of Gamified Commerce: Turning Virtual to Real
Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations
Outsourcing of Community Source: Identifying Motivations and Benefits
Journal of Global Information Management
The attraction of contributors in free and open source software projects
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Determinants of success in crowdsourcing software development
Proceedings of the 2013 annual conference on Computers and people research
Introducing app stores into a packaged software ecosystem: a negotiated order perspective
International Journal of Business Information Systems
Key factors for adopting inner source
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Information and Management
Journal of Systems and Software
An empirically based terminology and taxonomy for global software engineering
Empirical Software Engineering
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This paper presents a psychological contract perspective on the use of the open source development model as a global sourcing strategy-opensourcing, as we term it here-whereby commercial companies and open source communities collaborate on development of software of commercial interest to the company. Building on previous research on information systems outsourcing, a theoretical framework for exploring the opensourcing phenomenon is derived. The first phase of the research concerned qualitative case studies involving three commercial organizations (IONA Technologies, Philips Medical Systems, and Telefonica) that had "liberated" what had hitherto been proprietary software and sought to grow a global open source community around their product. We followed this with a large-scale survey involving additional exemplars of the phenomenon. The study identifies a number of symmetrical and complementary customer and community obligations that are associated with opensourcing success. We also identify a number of tension points on which customer and community perceptions tend to vary. Overall the key watchwords for opensourcing are openness, trust, tact, professionalism, transparency, and complementariness: The customer and community need to establish a trusted partnership of shared responsibility in building an overall opensourcing ecosystem. The study reveals an ongoing shift from OSS as a community of individual developers to OSS as a community of commercial organizations, primarily small to medium-sized enterprises. It also reveals that opensourcing provides ample opportunity for companies to headhunt top developers, hence moving from outsourcing to a largely unknown OSS workforce toward recruitment of developers from a global open source community whose talents have become known as a result of the opensourcing experience.