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LONG RANGE PLANNING
Volume 41, Issue 6, Pages 629-649Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2008.09.003
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- Economic and Social Research Council [RES-331-27-0005] Funding Source: researchfish
- ESRC [RES-331-27-0005] Funding Source: UKRI
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Relying on four in-depth case studies of firms involved with open source software, we investigate how firms make use of open source communities, and how that use is associated with their business models. Three themes - accessing, aligning and assimilating are inductively developed for how the firms relate to the external knowledge created in the communities. For each theme, we make an argument about the tactics associated with each theme and their positive and negative consequences. The findings are related to the literature on the open and distributed nature of innovation, and various theoretical and managerial implications are discussed. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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