Papers
“Seeking Open Infrastructure: Contrasting Open Standards, Open Source and Open Innovation”, First Monday, vol. 12, no. 6, 2007.
, “Scope and Timing of Deployment: Moderators of Organizational Adoption of the Linux Server Platform.”, International Journal of IT Standards Research, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 1-23, 2006.
, “The Role of Participation Architecture in Growing Sponsored Open Source Communities”, Industry & Innovation, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 145 - 168, 2008.
, “Open Source Standardization: The Rise of Linux in the Network Era”, Knowledge, Technology & Policy, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 88-112, 2001.
, “How Open is Open Enough? Melding Proprietary and Open Source Platform Strategies”, RP Special Issue, 2003. rp-west.pdf (124.42 KB)
, “How open is open enough? Melding proprietary and open source platform strategies”, Research Policy, vol. 32, no. 7, pp. 1259 - 1285, 2003.
, “Getting Clear About Communities in Open Innovation”, Industry & Innovation, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 223 - 231, 2008.
, “Contrasting Community Building in Sponsored and Community Founded Open Source Projects”, 2004. westomahony.pdf (189.86 KB)
, “Challenges of open innovation: the paradox of firm investment in open-source software”, R&D Management, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 319 - 331, 2006.
, “Value Capture and Value Networks in Open Source Vendor Strategies”, in 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'07), Waikoloa, HI, USA, 2007, pp. 176 - 176.
, “Movement Ideology vs. User Pragmatism in the Organizational Adoption of Open Source Software”, in Computerization Movements and Technology Diffusion: From Mainframes to Ubiquitous Computing, Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2008, pp. 427-452.
, “A Conceptual Model for Enterprise Adoption of Open Source Software”, in The Standards Edge: Open Season, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Sheridan Books, 2005, pp. 51-62.
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