Open-source strategies at the lens of the business model framework

Les stratégies open-sources selon le paradigme des modèles économiques

Nicolas Jullien and Robert Viseur ()
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Robert Viseur: UMONS - Université de Mons / University of Mons

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Abstract: Many companies use free open-source software (FLOSS) in their business proposals. There are many case studies of open-source business models. Yet there is no comprehensive analysis articulating these different open-source models. This is this article's aim. Based on the business model framework, and the IS literature, we start from the needs of FLOSS to propose a typology of open-source business models. This allows us to discuss the links between value capture and key resources. The open-source model appears to be based on the management and control of software evolution dynamics ("softwareflux"), in an industry that has become accustomed to selling products ("software-stock").

Keywords: business models; typology; strategy; information system; FLOSS; open-source; modèles économiques; typologie; stratégie; système d’information (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-11-16
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Published in Systèmes d'Information et Management, 2021, 26 (3), pp.67-103. ⟨10.3917/sim.213.0067⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/sim.213.0067

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