In this time of wikis, social networks, and user-generated content por-tals, terms such as
crowdsourcing, 1 co-creation, 2 user innovation, 3 vir-tual customer integration, 4 and open …

Organizations increasingly initiate Internet-based innovation-contest communities through
which individuals can interact and contribute to the innovation process. To successfully …

This paper seeks to close an empirical gap regarding the motivations, personal attributes
and behavioral patterns among free/libre and open-source (FLOSS) developers, especially …

The focus of existing open source software (OSS) research has been on how and why
individuals and firms add to the commons of public OSS code-that is, on the “giving” side of …

Recently, a large number of new innovative enterprises engaged in different competitive
markets by promoting innovation both in products and in services through open innovation …

How can firms engaged in distributed innovation attract external volunteers and direct their
efforts efficiently and effectively? Extant research proposes financial rewards as suitable …

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 …

Social product development (SPD) is an open innovation model in which social
technologies and social mechanisms are employed to mobilize individuals in ideation …

Introduction. The paper deals with the topic of increasing integration of individuals and
companies in innovation processes by means of Web-based software platforms. We …

Innovation processes taking place in the software sector are already widely debated. The
widespread success of Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) raises new research issues …