期刊
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
卷 65, 期 3, 页码 1191-1215出版社
INFORMS
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2017.2977
关键词
productivity of IT; user innovation; open source software; economics of IS; technology strategy; IT policy and management
资金
- HBS Division of Research and Faculty Development
As open source software (OSS) is increasingly used as a key input by firms, understanding its impact on productivity becomes critical. This study measures the firm-level productivity impact of nonpecuniary (free) OSS and finds a positive and significant value-added return for firms that have an ecosystem of complementary capabilities. There is no such impact for firms without this ecosystem of complements. Dynamic panel analysis, instrumental variables, and a variety of robustness checks are used to address measurement error concerns and to add support for a more causal interpretation of the results. For firms with an ecosystem of complements, a 1% increase in the use of nonpecuniary OSS leads to an increase in value- added productivity of between 0.002% and 0.008%. This effect is smaller for larger firms, and the results indicate that prior research underestimates the amount of IT firms use.
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