How do Open Source Software Companies Respond to Institutional Pressures? A Business Model Perspective

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How do Open Source Software Companies Respond to Institutional Pressures? A Business Model Perspective

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How do Open Source Software Companies Respond to Institutional Pressures? A Business Model Perspective

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How do Open Source Software Companies Respond to Institutional Pressures? A Business Model Perspective

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Influence Of Developer Sentiment And Stack Overflow Developers On Open Source Project Success: An Empirical Examination

The collaborative effort of software developers around the world produces Open Source Software (OSS) products, and most importantly, the source code of the software product is shared publicly. A recent survey of 1300 IT professionals by Black Duck Software showed that the percentage of companies using open source software grew from 42% to 78% between 2010 and 2015. There has been a significant increase in the formation of self-organizing virtual teams to produce open source software products and services. The current literature does not address the factors affecting the success of open source projects through the lens of self-organizing virtual teams and the sentiment among the developers and the sentiment among software developers. This phenomenon suggests a need to understand how successful project teams are created in a virtual collaborative environment. This research investigates how successful virtual teams are formed through the influence of an online developer community. The focus of this research is to assess how the online developer community, Stack Overflow (SO), influences the success of open source projects. More precisely, the study empirically tests the influence of the SO community on successful Github (GH) projects. The investigation also empirically examines how the ties among the software developers in the SO community initiate the self-creation of OSS project teams. The research also explores the perception of the developers about open source projects. Furthermore, the study probes the impact of OSS artifacts, namely “feature” and “patch” requests, on open source projects. The findings indicate that the perception of the developers in the SO community, prior ties among the developers in the community, and the artifact type of the project are the factors that influence the success of OSS projects. The research discusses the implications of the outcomes concerning self-organizing open source project teams

Successful Strategies for Adopting Open-Source Software

Middle-level information systems managers (ISMs) in small-scale organizations often have challenges in determining the most appropriate strategy for adopting open-source software (OSS) in their organizations. The ISMs need to determine the right strategy for adopting OSS to protect the organizations’ information technology infrastructure. Grounded in the diffusion of innovation theory, the objective of this multiple case study was to explore strategies middle-level ISMs used to adopt OSS in their small-scale organizations. Six middle-level ISMs from three small-scale organizations with experience of not less than six years in OSS adoption strategy in the city of Frederick, Maryland, shared their strategies during semistructured online interviews. Data from archival documents augmented data collection. Thematic analysis yielded four themes: Relative advantage, cost control, support services, and staff knowledge. The study’s findings revealed that ISMs employ different strategies when adopting OSS in their small-scale organizations. These strategies seek to ensure the small-scale organizations gain a relative advantage, incur minimal costs, are guaranteed support and services, and enjoy staff knowledge. The implications for positive social change include the potential for organization leaders to provide customers affordable products and services and gain a competitive advantage in improved services

Successful Strategies for Adopting Open-Source Software

Middle-level information systems managers (ISMs) in small-scale organizations often have challenges in determining the most appropriate strategy for adopting open-source software (OSS) in their organizations. The ISMs need to determine the right strategy for adopting OSS to protect the organizations’ information technology infrastructure. Grounded in the diffusion of innovation theory, the objective of this multiple case study was to explore strategies middle-level ISMs used to adopt OSS in their small-scale organizations. Six middle-level ISMs from three small-scale organizations with experience of not less than six years in OSS adoption strategy in the city of Frederick, Maryland, shared their strategies during semistructured online interviews. Data from archival documents augmented data collection. Thematic analysis yielded four themes: Relative advantage, cost control, support services, and staff knowledge. The study’s findings revealed that ISMs employ different strategies when adopting OSS in their small-scale organizations. These strategies seek to ensure the small-scale organizations gain a relative advantage, incur minimal costs, are guaranteed support and services, and enjoy staff knowledge. The implications for positive social change include the potential for organization leaders to provide customers affordable products and services and gain a competitive advantage in improved services

La educación como elemento dinamizador en la implantación de sistemas de información de código abierto en las organizaciones

Programa de Doctorado en Administración y Dirección de EmpresasLínea de Investigación: Sistemas de InformaciónClave Programa: DAECódigo Línea: 106Los Sistemas de Código Abierto (Open Source Software, en adelante OSS), se pueden definir, en una primera aproximación, como aquellos sistemas que permiten el acceso al código fuente con la intención de incrementar la flexibilidad de los sistemas de información. En el ámbito de la investigación, OSS cuenta con un amplio cuerpo científico. Son numerosos los trabajos que tratan de profundizar en diversos aspectos del OSS, especialmente desde la vertiente tecnológica. Sin embargo, son muchos los tópicos relacionados con el OSS que todavía cuenta con recorrido científico ante la escasez de evidencia científica. Nos estamos refiriendo, por ejemplo, a un extenso grupo de aspectos relacionados con el contexto de las organizaciones, tanto aquellos vinculados a dimensiones propias de los usuarios, como los que se encuentran más cercanos al espectro de la dirección. Tomando como punto de partida esta realidad científica, la presente tesis doctoral pone el foco en la discusión de la implantación en las organizaciones de soluciones basadas en el OSS, teniendo como eje vertebrador el influjo de la formación reglada sobre esta tecnología. Así pues, el objetivo principal es analizar la relación que existe entre la formación reglada recibida sobre soluciones tecnológicas basadas en OSS y su posterior impacto en las organizaciones. En concreto, esta tesis doctoral se centra en la formación sobre el OSS incluida en el sistema público de educación andaluza y su relación con sus posteriores implicaciones en el tejido empresarial andaluz. En particular, este objetivo general se articula en cuatro objetivos específicos: 1. Analizar el impacto en la intención de uso de soluciones tecnológicas basadas en OSS en usuarios finales que están recibiendo alguna formación reglada sobre este tipo de tecnología en diferentes etapas educativas. 2. Identificar y analizar los determinantes motivacionales del comportamiento de los estudiantes hacia el uso del OSS una vez concluido su periodo formativo. 3. Analizar la percepción gerencial hacia los determinantes motivacionales de los usuarios del OSS después de recibir una formación específica, así como determinar un escenario previsible sobre la implantación de sistemas OSS en las organizaciones. 4. Analizar la motivación de los docentes para contribuir al desarrollo de proyectos de OSS en el ámbito educativo.Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla. Departamento de Organización de Empresas y Marketin