Lurker demographics: counting the silent
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Collaboration with Lean Media: how open-source software succeeds
CSCW '00 Proceedings of the 2000 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
A framework analysis of the open source software development paradigm
ICIS '00 Proceedings of the twenty first international conference on Information systems
Who is an open source software developer?
Communications of the ACM - Ontology: different ways of representing the same concept
Two case studies of open source software development: Apache and Mozilla
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
The Many Meanings of Open Source
IEEE Software
Contrasting Community Building in Sponsored and Community Founded Open Source Projects
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 07
Knowledge Reuse in Open Source Software: An Exploratory Study of 15 Open Source Projects
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 07
Working for Free? Motivations for Participating in Open-Source Projects
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
The open source software phenomenon: Characteristics that promote research
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Towards long-lived robot genes
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Software engineering
Optimal strategies of IT consulting firms: the impact of license fee and open source
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Electronic commerce
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Understanding Sustained Participation in Open Source Software Projects
Journal of Management Information Systems
Determinants of wikipedia quality: the roles of global and local contribution inequality
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Mediating debate through on-line large-scale argumentation: Evidence from the field
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Information and Software Technology
Contribution behaviors in distributed environments
MIS Quarterly
Management Science
Progressing to the Center: Coordinating Project Work
Organization Science
An assessment of mobile OS-centric ecosystems
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
Knowledge Collaboration in Online Communities
Organization Science
Information Quality in Wikipedia: The Effects of Group Composition and Task Conflict
Journal of Management Information Systems
A Hidden Markov Model of Developer Learning Dynamics in Open Source Software Projects
Information Systems Research
Free/Libre open-source software development: What we know and what we do not know
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
Information Systems Research
Competitive implications of software open-sourcing
Decision Support Systems
Toward an Enacted Approach to Understanding OSS Developer's Motivations
International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction
Sustaining Web 2.0 services: A survival analysis of a live crowd-casting service
Decision Support Systems
Information Resources Management Journal
Network Positions and Contributions to Online Public Goods: The Case of Chinese Wikipedia
Journal of Management Information Systems
The attraction of contributors in free and open source software projects
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
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Breaking with many established assumptions about how innovation ought to work, open source software projects offer eye-opening examples of novel innovation practices for students and practitioners in many fields. In this article we briefly review existing research on the open source phenomenon and discuss the utility of open source software research findings for many other fields. We categorize the research into three areas: motivations of open source software contributors; governance, organization, and the process of innovation in open source software projects; and competitive dynamics enforced by open source software. We introduce the articles in this special issue of Management Science on open source software, and show how each contributes insights to one or more of these areas.