'Letting go of control' to embrace open source: Implications for company and community

Maha Shaikh, Tony Cornford

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It is increasingly understood across the information technology and services sector that engagement with the open source software model can serve as a means for firms to capture intellectual energy, learn about productive software processes, access relevant technical skills, identify and recruit staff, as well as obtain valuable resources including code. This paper reports a study undertaken within two large global IT companies that have been actively involved with open source for more than ten years. The study involved over 30 semi-structured interviews with employees of the companies drawn from top, middle, and lower level management, and included active and experienced developer as well as open source community members. Our findings indicate how these companies have adapted their day-to-day management practices to take into account the need for flexibility and freedom expected by open source communities. This paper focuses on how they 'let go of control' and what the implications of this are for both companies and the communities involved. Our data reveals a number of themes and in this paper we focus on three principal ones; issues of requirements, total cost of adoption, and alignment of open source engagement with long term company strategy.

Idioma originalAnglès
Títol de la publicacióProceedings of the 43rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-43
DOIs
Estat de la publicacióPublicada - 2010
Publicat externament
Esdeveniment43rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-43 - Koloa, Kauai, HI, United States
Durada: 5 de gen. 20108 de gen. 2010

Sèrie de publicacions

NomProceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
ISSN (imprès)1530-1605

Conferència

Conferència43rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-43
País/TerritoriUnited States
CiutatKoloa, Kauai, HI
Període5/01/108/01/10

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