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Open-Source Platform-Based Strategies: Multiple Case Studies in the Mobile Devices Industry

Jose Teixeira, Open-Source Platform-Based Strategies: Multiple Case Studies in the Mobile Devices Industry. In: Klaas-Jan Stol, Björn Lundell, Gregory Madey (Eds.), Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium of the 9th International Conference on Open Source Systems, 27–36, Skövde University, 2013.

Abstract:

This doctoral student research addresses the emergence of open-source based platforms currently attaining notorious relevance within the mobile devices industry. It aims at providing a better understanding on “how and why corporations follow open-source based platform strategies?” within high-networked markets under constant technological evolution. Drawn over the constructs of multi-sided platforms (Rochet & Tirole, 2003; Hagiu & Wright, 2011) and plenty of studies on open-source software adoption such as Lerner and Tirole (2002), Feller and Fitzgerald (2002) and Weber(2004), this research also bridges business strategy in network economics (Gawer & Henderson, 2007; Gawer & Cusumano, 2008) with the psychological and anthropological concepts of sense of community (SoC) and communities of practice (CoP).The researcher follows a theory testing approach, where established theories developed on previous decades over the Personal Computer and Operating Systems are replicated in a completely new and emergent context. By taking a pure qualitative case-study approach on the molds of Eisenhardt (1989) and Yin (2008 , the researcher developed a set of descriptive and in-depth case-studies within he mobile devices industry, answering the lack of empirical research on strategies used by open-source platform providers. Natural occurring data was collected from Internet s and semi-structured interviews were conducted within an industrial key-player with the goal of providing a framework and a theory that would extend what is known on open-source products to open-source platforms. Practitioners are then provided with better guidance for designing and implementing their networked technological strategies, to let their computer-based platforms succeed in high competitive under network effects.

BibTeX entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{inpTeixeira_Jose13b,
  title = {Open-Source Platform-Based Strategies: Multiple Case Studies in the Mobile Devices Industry},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium of the 9th International Conference on Open Source Systems},
  author = {Teixeira, Jose},
  editor = {Stol, Klaas-Jan and Lundell, Björn and Madey, Gregory},
  publisher = {Skövde University},
  pages = {27–36},
  year = {2013},
  keywords = { OSS, FLOSS, Open-source, Platforms, Technological-strategy},
}

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