Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/208765 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
PhD Series No. 32.2010
Publisher: 
Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Frederiksberg
Abstract: 
This research project examines how the conflicting institutional logics are dealt with in a hybrid organisational form. The empirical setting of the study is an Open Source – business collaboration in software development projects. The idea of making a case study of the Open Source – business collaboration is interesting from both theoretical and business perspectives. Since companies realised that the world’s most talented people are distributed throughout various organisations, rather than members of a single team or corporation, the open innovation model could be neither underestimated nor ignored by the business. However, that solution brings new challenges, especially for business-oriented organisations. The challenges come from the significant differences between new open models and the classic closed-innovation model, which grew on the concept of the institution of the intellectual property rights. Open Source, on the contrary, is intrinsically an anti-corporational, pro-knowledge-sharing and creativity motivated movement. As a result, in the era of open collaboration in knowledge-integrating platforms the everyday problems are constituted of dealing with mixture of institutional backgrounds, business models and professional identities......
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ISBN: 
9788759384466
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Doctoral Thesis

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