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Taming of “Openness” in Software Innovation Systems

Taming of “Openness” in Software Innovation Systems

Mehmet Gençer, Beyza Oba
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 15
ISBN13: 9781522517795|ISBN10: 1522517790|EISBN13: 9781522517801
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1779-5.ch003
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Gençer, Mehmet, and Beyza Oba. "Taming of “Openness” in Software Innovation Systems." Driving Innovation and Business Success in the Digital Economy, edited by Ionica Oncioiu, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 26-40. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1779-5.ch003

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Gençer, M. & Oba, B. (2017). Taming of “Openness” in Software Innovation Systems. In I. Oncioiu (Ed.), Driving Innovation and Business Success in the Digital Economy (pp. 26-40). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1779-5.ch003

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Gençer, Mehmet, and Beyza Oba. "Taming of “Openness” in Software Innovation Systems." In Driving Innovation and Business Success in the Digital Economy, edited by Ionica Oncioiu, 26-40. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1779-5.ch003

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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, we 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, we present a systemic and historical perspective to explain the continuum in emergence and establishment of strategic patterns.

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