Taming of ‘Openness' in Software Innovation Systems

Mehmet Gencer and Beyza Oba
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Mehmet Gencer: Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey
Beyza Oba: Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey

International Journal of Innovation in the Digital Economy (IJIDE), 2017, vol. 8, issue 2, 1-15

Abstract: In large-scale open source software (OSS) innovation ecosystems that incorporate firms, a variety of measures are taken to tame the potentially chaotic activities and align the contributions of various participants with the strategic priorities of major stakeholders. Such taming rests on the dual desires of this emergent community of firms to unleash the innovation potential of OSS and to drive it to a certain direction, and it emerges in the form of various organizational activities. By drawing on a sample of large-scale OSS ecosystems, the authors discuss that methods employed for taming are isomorphic, and overview the emerging strategic pattern for establishing systems of innovation. This pattern involves a related set of practices to balance virtues of OSS community while introducing corporate discipline. In contrast to approaches such as open innovation, which favor isolated reasoning, they present a systemic and historical perspective to explain the continuum in emergence and establishment of strategic patterns.

Date: 2017
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