Open Source Product Development
The Meaning and Relevance of Openness
Authors: Balka, Kerstin
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- About this book
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Open source software development has received considerable scholarly attention, much of which is based on the presumption that the ‘open source model’ holds some lessons of broader applicability. Kerstin Balka focuses on the open source development of tangible objects, so-called open design. To explore the landscape and mechanisms of open design, she presents a comprehensive study of 104 projects and an in-depth case study of six projects. The subsequent quantitative study explores openness as a gradual and multi-dimensional concept showing that companies can successfully implement strategies of partial openness to safeguard value capture without alienating their developer community.
- About the authors
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Kerstin Balka obtained her doctorate with Prof. Cornelius Herstatt at the Institute for Technology and Innovation Management at the Hamburg University of Technology.
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 3-8
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Definition of terms
Pages 9-10
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Perspectives from prior literature
Pages 13-31
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Research design and methodology
Pages 33-48
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Study 1: The open design landscape
Pages 51-66
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Open Source Product Development
- Book Subtitle
- The Meaning and Relevance of Openness
- Authors
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- Kerstin Balka
- Series Title
- Forschungs-/Entwicklungs-/Innovations-Management
- Copyright
- 2011
- Publisher
- Gabler Verlag
- Copyright Holder
- Gabler Verlag | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-8349-6949-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-8349-6949-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-8349-3153-5
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVIII, 196
- Number of Illustrations
- 30 b/w illustrations
- Topics
