Build Your Firm With Strangers?: Longitudinal Studies on Open Source Hardware Firm Growth
The success of many open source software projects revealed the power of voluntary collaborative production of large/complex software systems. The research community is therefore curious about the viability of open source projects in other areas. In around 2000, open source practices started to take...
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American Society of Mechanical Engineers
2020
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| author | Li, Zhuoxuan Seering, Warren Paul |
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| description | The success of many open source software projects revealed the power of voluntary collaborative production of large/complex software systems. The research community is therefore curious about the viability of open source projects in other areas. In around 2000, open source practices started to take place in the commercial hardware realm, and so far, the phenomenon has not been fully explored. Using grounded theory, the authors studied 31 firms for an average of 2.3 years, discovering a 4-phase growth pattern of open source hardware firms, including starting the firm, identifying core competencies, business model improvement and business maturation. The firms behaviors in each stage are reported, as well as the evolution of community demography, behaviors and impact in different growth phases. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1268342022-10-02T01:04:07Z Build Your Firm With Strangers?: Longitudinal Studies on Open Source Hardware Firm Growth Li, Zhuoxuan Seering, Warren Paul Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering The success of many open source software projects revealed the power of voluntary collaborative production of large/complex software systems. The research community is therefore curious about the viability of open source projects in other areas. In around 2000, open source practices started to take place in the commercial hardware realm, and so far, the phenomenon has not been fully explored. Using grounded theory, the authors studied 31 firms for an average of 2.3 years, discovering a 4-phase growth pattern of open source hardware firms, including starting the firm, identifying core competencies, business model improvement and business maturation. The firms behaviors in each stage are reported, as well as the evolution of community demography, behaviors and impact in different growth phases. 2020-08-27T22:48:55Z 2020-08-27T22:48:55Z 2019-11 2019-08 2020-08-05T15:17:12Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 9780791859278 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/126834 Li, Zhuoxuan and Warren Seering. "Build Your Firm With Strangers?: Longitudinal Studies on Open Source Hardware Firm Growth." Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, August 2019, Anaheim, California, USA, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, November 2019. © 2019 ASME en http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2019-97618 Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference 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/pdf American Society of Mechanical Engineers ASME |
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