Industry Best Practices for Corporate Open Sourcing
Harutyunyan N, Riehle D, Sathya G (2020)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Conference contribution, Original article
Publication year: 2020
Event location: Wailea
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10125/64458
Abstract
Companies usually don’t share the source code for the software they develop. While this approach is justified in software that constitutes differentiating intellectual property, proprietary development can lead to redundant development and other opportunity costs. In response, companies are increasingly open sourcing some if not all of their non-differentiating software. Given the limited academic research on this emerging topic, we bridge the gap between industry and academia by taking a practice-based approach. We investigate why and how companies engage in corporate open sourcing. We take an exploratory case study approach. Our cases are four companies with multibillion-dollar revenues each: A major e-commerce company based in Germany; a leading social networking service company based in the USA; a cloud computing software company based in the USA; and a manufacturing and media software company based in the USA. We present the resulting theory in an actionable format of state-of-the-art best practice patterns.
Authors with CRIS profile
Nikolay Harutyunyan
Professur für Open Source Software
Dirk Riehle
Professur für Open Source Software
How to cite
APA:
Harutyunyan, N., Riehle, D., & Sathya, G. (2020). Industry Best Practices for Corporate Open Sourcing. In Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS '20. Wailea, US.
MLA:
Harutyunyan, Nikolay, Dirk Riehle, and Gayathery Sathya. "Industry Best Practices for Corporate Open Sourcing." Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS '20, Wailea 2020.
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