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A researcher from the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of Management, Information Systems and Quantitative Methods recently published a paper on the innovation potential of businesses’ using open source software communities. The paper, from Paul Di Gangi, Ph.D., assistant professor of information systems, and titled “Balancing on a tightrope: Managing the boundaries of a firm-sponsored OSS community and its impact on innovation and absorptive capacity,” was published in the January issue of Information and Organization.
Di Gangi’s research explores a qualitative analysis of a firm called eZ systems and its successfully sponsored OSS community, eZ Publish, and develops a theoretical model depicting how the management of a firm-sponsored OSS community influences both the community’s innovation capacity and the firm’s ability to recognize the value of new information and apply it to its organizational benefit.
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