Balancing on a tightrope: Managing the boundaries of a firm-sponsored OSS community and its impact on innovation and absorptive capacity

Teigland, Robin; Gangi, Paul Michael Di; Flåten, Bjørn-Tore; Giovacchini, Elia; Pastorino, Nicolas

doi:10.1016/j.infoandorg.2014.01.001

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“…Companies with high innovation impacts are characterized by higher degrees in the following variables: structure, free software and innovation activities. These results are in line with the contributions of different authors who recognize that structure is an important factor in promoting learning and innovation (Rueda-Cáceres and Sánchez-Torres 2015), identifying the consideration of innovation activities as a key aspect (Wagner 2011;OECD 2002) and studying the impact of the use of free software in the generation of innovation (Morgan and Finnegan 2014;Teigland et al 2014).…”

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confidence: 85%

Distinctive Innovation Capabilities of Argentine Software Companies with High Innovation Results and Impacts

Camio

Romero

Álvarez

et al. 2018

Administrative Sciences

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The software sector is of growing importance and, due to its degree of dynamism, the identification of capabilities for innovation is vital. This study identifies capabilities variables that distinguish Argentine software companies with high innovation results and high innovation impacts from those with lesser results and impacts. It is applied to a sample of 103 companies, a measurement model and the component variables of an innovation degree index for software companies (INIs) formulated in previous studies. A Principal Component Analysis and a biplot are conducted. In the analysis of results and impacts, 100% of the variability within the first two components is explained, which shows the high correlation between variables. From the biplots, it appears that companies with high results have higher degrees in the variables of motivation, strategy, leadership and internal determinants; and those with high impacts present higher degrees of structure, strategy, leadership, free software and innovation activities. The findings add elements to the theory of capabilities for innovation in the software sector and allow us to consider the relative importance of different capabilities variables in the generation of innovation results and impacts.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 85%

Distinctive Innovation Capabilities of Argentine Software Companies with High Innovation Results and Impacts

Camio

Romero

Álvarez

et al. 2018

Administrative Sciences

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“…While in early years, software technology companies such as IBM and Novell invested time and resources in OSS development, today even user firms (e.g., Samsung) invest in OSS development [8]. Thus, today's successful OSS projects receive contributions from hobbyists, universities, research centers, as well as from software vendors and user firms [9,10]. Theorists have referred to this kind of combined public and private investments in innovation creation as private-collective innovation [11].…”

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confidence: 99%

Private-Collective Innovation and Open Source Software: Longitudinal Insights from Linux Kernel Development

Homscheid

Kunegis

Schaarschmidt

2015

Open and Big Data Management and Innovation

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While in early years, software technology companies such as IBM and Novell invested time and resources in open source software (OSS) development, today even user firms (e.g., Samsung) invest in OSS development. Thus, today's professional OSS projects receive contributions from hobbyists, universities, research centers, as well as software vendors and user firms. Theorists have referred to this kind of combined public and private investments in innovation creation as private-collective innovation. In particular, the private-collective innovation model seeks to explain why firms privately invest resources to create artifacts that share the characteristics of non-rivalry and non-excludability. The aim of this research is to investigate how different contributor groups associated with public and increasing private interests interact in an OSS development project. The results of the study show that the balance between private and collective contributors in the Linux kernel development seems to be changing to an open source project that is mostly developed jointly by private companies.

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“…The study contributes to several literature streams and to practice. First, we contribute to the literature on organizational knowledge sharing [22,26,27] and on the governance of company-involved OSS development [24,32]. We move the focus from naturally occurring knowledge sharing barriers related to inter-organizational climate and relationship towards artificially set up barriers in the form of microprocesses.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The study contributes to the literature on organizational knowledge sharing [22,26,27] and the governance of company-involved OSS development [24,32]. We also contribute to the literature on open innovation of firms [5,8,9].…”

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confidence: 94%

Control vs Freedom: How Companies Manage Knowledge Sharing with Open Source Software Communities

Wissel

Zaggl

Lindberg

2020

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Knowledge sharing is essential for successful collaboration between companies and external communities. We lack knowledge regarding the microprocesses companies deliberately introduce to manage knowledge sharing with such outside parties. We research these processes in the context of collaboration between companies and open source software (OSS) communities by posing the question: How do companies design explicit mechanisms to manage knowledge exchange with OSS communities?We conduct an explorative case study at Siemens AG. Siemens introduced a formal template process which can be adapted by the organizational units according to their demands. Results show that the extent to which the process is implemented depends on the level of closeness to core intellectual property of the organizational unit and the intensity of the involvement in OSS communities. Developers use several methods to shortcut the process. Our study contributes to the literature on organizational knowledge sharing, company-involved OSS development, and open innovation of firms.

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Balancing on a tightrope: Managing the boundaries of a firm-sponsored OSS community and its impact on innovation and absorptive capacity

Cited by 36 publications

References 54 publications

Distinctive Innovation Capabilities of Argentine Software Companies with High Innovation Results and Impacts

Distinctive Innovation Capabilities of Argentine Software Companies with High Innovation Results and Impacts

Private-Collective Innovation and Open Source Software: Longitudinal Insights from Linux Kernel Development

Control vs Freedom: How Companies Manage Knowledge Sharing with Open Source Software Communities

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