@article {flosswp332,
	title = {Do firms take part in the projects of the OS community. Some preliminary evidence and a research agenda},
	year = {2007},
	month = {January},
	abstract = {The Open Source (OS) software has progressively gained economic importance in recent years, and more and more commercial firms are getting involved, to various extents, in the OS movement. While a number of studies have investigated motivations and business models of OS-based software companies, very few works have examined whether and how firms actively participate to open projects. This paper contributes to the literature by providing empirical evidence on the role and the activities of software houses in community developed projects. The research also proposes an original methodology of large-scale primary data collection from OS project repositories and linked Web sites. The findings show how different today???s OS movement is from its origins and how important firm involvement has become, not only numerically but also for the deepness of its impact on community projects. Finally, further research developments are suggested.},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/paper_firm_involvement_MIT.pdf},
	author = {Andrea Bonaccorsi and Dario Lorenzi and Monica Merito and Cristina Rossi}
}
@article {flosswp328,
	title = {Open Source and the software industry. How firms do business out of an open innovation paradigm},
	year = {2007},
	month = {January},
	abstract = {Open Source Software (OSS) represents an ???open innovation??? paradigm based on knowledge produced and shared by developers and users. The paper inquires how OSS challenges the three Teece???s building blocks. New findings from a large survey of European software companies, show that within the OSS paradigm: (i) OSS can be a sustainable business model even in the absence of any appropriability; (ii) complementary assets are distributed collectively and made widely available without the need for dedicated contractual arrangements; (iii) a de facto dominant design may stem from a community of users/producers even independently of the presence of powerful large companies.},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/paper_euram_2007.pdf},
	author = {Andrea Bonaccorsi and Monica Merito and Rossi Cristina and Lucia Piscitello}
}
@conference {692,
	title = {How is it possible to profit from innovation in the absence of any appropriability?},
	booktitle = {OSS2006: Open Source Systems (IFIP 2.13)},
	series = {IFIP International Federation for Information Processing },
	volume = {203/2006},
	year = {2006},
	month = {2006///},
	pages = {333 - 334},
	publisher = {Springer},
	organization = {Springer},
	abstract = {Open Source Software (OSS) represents an {\textquotedblleft}open innovation{\textquotedblright} paradigm based on knowledge produced and shared by developers and users. New findings from a large survey of European software companies show that: (i) the OSS business model is currently involving almost one third of the industry, although with different intensity; (ii) compared with pure proprietary software producers, OSS firms have a broader product portfolio and are more diversified; moreover, (iii) OSS firms provide more complementary services to their customers; (iv) over time OSS firms increase the share of OS turnover out of the total turnover, becoming more and more OSS oriented; (v) both NOSS and OSS firms do not consider appropriability as a crucial requirement for innovation and do not consider the lack of appropriability as an obstacle to profitability.
},
	issn = {978-0-387-34225-2},
	doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-387-34226-5_33},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/How\%20is\%20it\%20possible\%20to\%20profit.pdf},
	author = {Andrea Bonaccorsi and Lucia Piscitello and Monica Merito and Cristina Rossi}
}
@conference {803,
	title = {Open Source firms: from community to business},
	booktitle = {OSS2005: Open Source Systems },
	year = {2005},
	pages = {362-363},
	abstract = {A large body of literature is now addressing the Open Source (OS) phenomenon. Economic scholars have deeply investigated the incentives of people working within OS community projects; the software production models in absence of explicit hierarchical structures; the successful dissemination of OS programs in environments dominated by proprietary standards; the peculiarities in the management of intellectual property within the OS framework. Theoretical contributions have coupled with the collection of extensive empirical evidence mainly through surveys taken on individual developers. Nowadays a new trend is shaping the OS movement: more and more firms are entering the market by offering software solutions based on the new paradigm (Open Source firms).},
	keywords = {business, COMMUNITY, firms, Open Source firms},
	url = {http://pascal.case.unibz.it/handle/2038/1265},
	author = {Andrea Bonaccorsi and Cristina Rossi}
}
@conference {758,
	title = {Open Source software, intrinsic motivations and profit-oriented firms. Do not firms practise what they preach?},
	booktitle = {OSS2005: Open Source Systems },
	year = {2005},
	pages = {241-245},
	abstract = {This paper contributes to the literature by
providing empirical evidence on the incentives of firms that
engage in Open Source activities. Data collected by a survey
on 146 Italian companies supplying OS solutions (Open
Source firms) show that (surprisingly) intrinsic, communitybased
incentives do play a role but are not, in general, put into
practise. The discrepancy between attitudes and behaviours is
investigated and firms adopting more consistent behaviours
are singled out. Our results are in line with the literature on
business models of firms entering the Open Source field.},
	author = {Andrea Bonaccorsi and Cristina Rossi}
}
@proceedings {1185,
	title = {Contributing to OS Projects. A Comparison between Individual and Firms},
	year = {2004},
	note = {"Following the approach used in previous surveys on Open Source developers, we prepared an on-line questionnaire;"},
	pages = {18-22},
	abstract = {This paper studies the contributions software firms make to Open Source (OS) projects. Our goal is to ascertain whether they follow the same regularity of pattern seen for individual programmer An exhaustive empirical analysis was carried out using data on project membership1 , project coordination and the contributions made by 146 Italian firms that do business with OS software. We compare our findings with the results of the surveys taken on OS programmers. The availability of the data gathered by Hertel et al. ([10]) on 141 developers of the Linux kernel allowed a direct comparison to be carried out between the two sets2 .},
	keywords = {Survey},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/19-23.pdf},
	author = {Andrea Bonaccorsi and Cristina Rossi}
}
@article {flosswp154,
	title = {Adaptive entry strategies under dominant standards: Hybrid business models in the Open Source software industry},
	year = {2003},
	month = {March},
	abstract = {Although a growing body of literature is analysing Open Source software (OSS) issues, there is still lack of empirical data on the phenomenon and little is known about firms that enter the software industry by producing under the Open Source license scheme (Open Source firms). This paper is a contribution to fill this gap and focuses on the business models of these firms. We find significant heterogeneity among them, in particular many agents supply both proprietary and Open Source software. We present a model of adoption that studies the intra-firm diffusion of the new paradigm. Explanatory hypotheses are discussed analysing how the characteristics of the Open Source production mode and of network externalities in software demand shape the strategies of firms that entered the OSS field.},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/bonnacorsirossigiannangeli.pdf},
	author = {Andrea Bonaccorsi}
}
@article {flosswp102,
	title = {Altruistic individuals, selfish firms? The structure of motivation in Open Source software},
	year = {2003},
	month = {August},
	abstract = {A growing body of economic literature is addressing the incentives of the individuals that take part to the Open Source movement. However, empirical analyses focus on individual developers and neglect firms that do business with Open Source software (OSS). During 2002, we conducted a large-scale survey on 146 Italian firms supplying Open Source solutions in Italy. In this paper our data on firms? motivations are compared with data collected by the surveys made on individual programmers. We aim at analysing the role played by different classes of motivations (social, economic and technological) in determining the involvement of different groups of agents in Open Source},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/bnaccorsirossimotivationshort.pdf},
	author = {Andrea Bonaccorsi}
}
@article {flosswp104,
	title = {An analysis of Open Source production in Italy},
	year = {2003},
	month = {August},
	abstract = {Final report of a survey on Italian firms that do business with Open Source software},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/bonaccorsirossiccatenieliss.pdf},
	author = {Andrea Bonaccorsi}
}
@article {flosswp120,
	title = {Comparing motivations of individual programmers and firms to take part in the Open Source movement. From community to business},
	year = {2003},
	month = {October},
	abstract = {A growing body of economic literature is addressing the incentives of the individuals that take part to the Open Source movement. However, empirical analyses focus on individual developers and neglect firms that do business with Open Source software (OSS). During 2002, we conducted a large-scale survey on 146 Italian firms supplying Open Source solutions in Italy. In this paper our data on firms? motivations are compared with data collected by the surveys made on individual programmers. We aim at analysing the role played by different classes of motivations (social, economic and technological) in determining the involvement of different groups of agents in Open Source activities.},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/bnaccorsirossimotivationlong.pdf},
	author = {Andrea Bonaccorsi}
}
@article {flosswp103,
	title = {Contributing to the common pool resources in Open Source software. A comparison between individuals and firms},
	year = {2003},
	month = {August},
	abstract = {This paper studies the contributions to Open Source projects of software firms. Our goal is to analyse whether they follow the same regularities that characterize the behaviour of individual programmers. An exhaustive empirical analysis is carried out using data on project membership, project coordination and contribution efforts of 146 Italian firms that do business with Open Source software. We follow a meta-analytic approach comparing our findings with the results of the surveys conducted on Free Software programmers. Moreover, the availability of the data gathered by Hertel et al. (2003) on 141 developers of the Linux kernel will allow direct comparisons between the two sets.},
	keywords = {developers, linux, linux kernel, Survey},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/bnaccorsirossidevelopers.pdf},
	author = {Andrea Bonaccorsi}
}
@article {flosswp101,
	title = {Licensing schemes in the production and distribution of Open Source software. An empirical investigation},
	year = {2003},
	month = {August},
	abstract = {Contrary to what most people assume, Open source doesn{\textquoteright}t just mean access to the source code. A software is considered Open Source if and only if its distribution terms [i.e. the license] comply with the set of criteria defined by the Open Source Definition (OSD). That is, to say that a code is Open Source is to say that it is subject to a member of a particular category of licenses (McGowan, 2000). As many others in the Open Source field, the research on Open Source licenses suffers from lack of empirical data. Although in the literature there are empirical studies that explore the relationships between license choice and project characteristics (Lerner and Tirole, 2002a), at present we are not aware of surveys that collect data on licensors, that is on firms producing and distributing software on an Open Source basis. This study addresses his shortcoming. We examine the license choice of the firms that supply Open Source products and services and relate it to their structural characteristics, business models and attitudes towards the movement and its community. Between September 2002 and March 2003 we conducted a survey on Italian firms that do business with Open Source software. We asked them to indicate the Open Source licenses with which they work, for the distribution of their software as well as the production process. We made reference to the distinction between copyleft and non-copyleft distribution schemes. Using these data, this paper aims at testing several theoretical hypotheses advanced by the literature on Open Source licenses. In order to make the discussion more lively, for each issue we present the hypothesis and our findings in sequence.},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/bnaccorsirossilicense.pdf},
	author = {Andrea Bonaccorsi}
}
@article {flosswp52,
	title = {Why open source software can succeed},
	journal = {RP Special Issue},
	year = {2003},
	month = {February},
	abstract = {The paper discusses three key economic problems raised by the emergence and diffusion of open source software: motivation, coordination, and diffusion under a dominant standard. First the movement took off through the activity of a software development community that deliberately did not follow profit motivations. Second, a hierarchical coordination emerged without the support of an organization with proprietary rights. Third, Linux and other open source systems diffused in an evnvironment dominated by established proprietary standards, which benefited from significant increasing returns. The paper show that recent developments in the theory of critical mass in the diffusion of technologies with network externality may help to explain these phenomena.},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/rp-bonaccorsirossi.pdf},
	author = {Andrea Bonaccorsi}
}
