Open Source Software and the “Private-Collective” Innovation Model: Issues for Organization Science
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| author | von Hippel, Eric A. von Krogh, Georg |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1062962021-06-21T15:47:44Z Open Source Software and the “Private-Collective” Innovation Model: Issues for Organization Science von Hippel, Eric A. von Krogh, Georg Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society Sloan School of Management von Hippel, Eric A. von Hippel, Eric A. A version of this paper with an updated license is available in the MIT Open Access Articles collection at https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/127246. Currently, two models of innovation are prevalent in organization science. The “private investment” model assumes returns to the innovator result from private goods and efficient regimes of intellectual property protection. The “collective action” model assumes that under conditions of market failure, innovators collaborate in order to produce a public good. The phenomenon of open source software development shows that users program to solve their own as well as shared technical problems, and freely reveal their innovations without appropriating private returns from selling the software. In this paper, we propose that open source software development is an exemplar of a compound “private-collective” model of innovation that contains elements of both the private investment and the collective action models and can offer society the “best of both worlds” under many conditions. We describe a new set of research questions this model raises for scholars in organization science. We offer some details regarding the types of data available for open source projects in order to ease access for researchers who are unfamiliar with these, and also offer some advice on conducting empirical studies on open source software development processes. 2017-01-09T17:33:42Z 2017-01-09T17:33:42Z 2003-03 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1047-7039 1526-5455 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106296 Hippel, Eric von, and Georg von Krogh. “Open Source Software and the ‘Private-Collective’ Innovation Model: Issues for Organization Science.” Organization Science, vol. 14, no. 2, 2003, pp.209–223. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7235-1032 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/orsc.14.2.209.14992 Organization Science Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/msword Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Prof. von Hippel |
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| title | Open Source Software and the “Private-Collective” Innovation Model: Issues for Organization Science |
| title_full | Open Source Software and the “Private-Collective” Innovation Model: Issues for Organization Science |
| title_fullStr | Open Source Software and the “Private-Collective” Innovation Model: Issues for Organization Science |
| title_full_unstemmed | Open Source Software and the “Private-Collective” Innovation Model: Issues for Organization Science |
| title_short | Open Source Software and the “Private-Collective” Innovation Model: Issues for Organization Science |
| title_sort | open source software and the private collective innovation model issues for organization science |
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