Does Open Source Adoption directly impact financial performance or does community involvement mediate the relationship?

L’adoption de l’Open Source impacte t’elle directement la performance financière, ou y a t’il un effet indirect de l’implication dans les communautés ?

Veronique Sanguinetti (toudoire) () and Kiane Goudarzi ()
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Veronique Sanguinetti (toudoire): MAGELLAN - Laboratoire de Recherche Magellan - UJML - Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 - Université de Lyon - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) - Lyon
Kiane Goudarzi: MAGELLAN - Laboratoire de Recherche Magellan - UJML - Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 - Université de Lyon - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) - Lyon

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Abstract: Open Source appeared in the software industry in the early 1980s under the name "free software" (Von Hippel, 2001). The objective of the research is to investigate the role of Open Source Adoption in terms of Open Source usage and Community involvement on financial performance. The relationships are tested by structural equation modelling on perception-based measures with managers on a sample of 137 organizations by using R, an Open Source language and environment for statistics.The research shows the mediating role of formalized and result-oriented community involvement in the relationship between Open Source usage and financial performance. Corporate Open Source usage fosters community involvement in terms of formalized and result-oriented community involvement, but result-oriented community involvement has a positive effect on financial performance, whereas formalization of the relationship with the communities has a negative effect on financial performance.

Keywords: R; structural modeling; corporate community involvement; quantitative analysis; perceived financial performance; Open Source Open Innovation; opening dilemma (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-06-03
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Published in 24ème conférence de l’AIM 2019 "Management de la transformation numérique", Jun 2019, Nantes, France

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