• DocumentCode
    425427
  • Title

    Knowledge Reuse in Open Source Software: An Exploratory Study of 15 Open Source Projects

  • Author

    Von Krogh, Georg ; Spaeth, Sebastian ; Haefliger, Stefan

  • Author_Institution
    University of St. Gallen
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    03-06 Jan. 2005
  • Abstract
    To date, there is no investigation of knowledge reuse in open source software projects. This paper focuses on the forms of knowledge reuse and the factors impacting on them. It develops a theory drawn from data of 15 open source software projects and finds that the effort to search, integrate and maintain external knowledge influences the form of knowledge to be reused. Implications for firms and innovation research are discussed.
  • Keywords
    FLOSSdevelopment; knowledge reuse; Context; Costs; Humans; Internet; Licenses; Open source software; Programming; Seminars; Software performance; Technological innovation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    System Sciences, 2005. HICSS '05. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on
  • ISSN
    1530-1605
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-2268-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/HICSS.2005.378
  • Filename
    1385643
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=425427