Open Source Innovation: The Phenomenon, Participant's Behaviour, Business Implications [Hardcover]

1. Motivation of Participants to Contribute to Online Communities Herstatt  2. Open Source Software and Open Content: A Comparison  Ehls  3. Open Source Beyond Software: An Empirical Investigation of the Open Design Phenomenon Balka  4. Open Source Innovation as a Phenomenon-Based Research Field: Puzzles and Paradigms Lee & Raasch  5. Open Source Participation Behavior - A Review and Introduction of a Participation Lifecycle Model Ehls  6. Joining Open Source Communities Contingent on Individual User Traits Ehls  7. Exogenous vs. Endogenous Governance in Innovation Communities: Effects on Motivation, Conflict and Justice Stormer  8. Managing Member Specialization in Online Innovation Communities Bierwald  9. How Open is Open Source  Software and Beyond. Balka  10. Free Revealing in Open Innovation: A comparison of Different Models and Their Benefits for Companies. Schweisfurth  11. 'Men on the Inside' - How Firms Can Strategically Influence Open Source Communities Lee  12. User-Contested and User-Complemented Markets: Impacts on Market Outcomes and Social Welfare Raasch & von Hippel  13. Conclusions

Open Source Innovation (OSI) has gained considerable momentum within the last years. Academic and management practice interest grows as more and more end-users consider and even participate in Open Source product development like Linux, Android, or Wikipedia.

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