@article{f23da5ebb74a49abb3a6c08fd216d6f5,
title = "From closed to open: Job role changes, individual predispositions, and the adoption of commercial open source software development",
abstract = "When trying to attain the benefits of open source software (OSS), proprietary closed source software (PCSS) firms are struggling to adopt this radically different practice of software development. We approach these adoption challenges as a problem of gaining support for organizational innovation. Through a mixed-method research design consisting of qualitative interviews and a survey of employees of a large telecommunications firm, we find that the organizational innovation to commercially engage in OSS has different impacts on technical and administrative dimensions of different job roles. Accordingly, individuals enacting different job roles are - on average - more or less well aligned with the OSS practice and OSS processes per se. We find that individual-level attributes can counterbalance the job role changes that weaken support for adopting OSS, while perceived organizational commitment has no effect. Suggestions for PCSS firms are presented and implications for innovation literature are discussed.",
keywords = "Open innovation R&D, Open source software, Organizational change, Organizational innovation",
author = "Oliver Alexy and Joachim Henkel and Wallin, {Martin W.}",
note = "Funding Information: The authors would like to thank Editor Ben Martin and their reviewers for valuable guidance. Alexy further acknowledges the support of both the U.K. Innovation Research Centre ( RES/G028591/1 ) (sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council ; the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts ; the U.K. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills ; and the Technology Strategy Board ) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council ( GR/R95371/01 ). All authors thank Martin Bichler, Linus Dahlander, Lars Frederiksen, Gerry George, Marc Gruber, Simone Sch{\"o}berl, Markus Perkmann, Francesco Rullani, and Ammon Salter as well as conference and seminar participants at AOM, Boston University, ETH Z{\"u}rich, EURAM, Harvard Business School, and Technische Universit{\"a}t M{\"u}nchen for helpful comments on earlier versions of this paper. All remaining errors are, of course, our own. ",
year = "2013",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1016/j.respol.2013.04.007",
language = "English",
volume = "42",
pages = "1325--1340",
journal = "Research Policy",
issn = "0048-7333",
publisher = "Elsevier",
number = "8",
}