Abstract
Community source development has emerged as a new way of developing enterprise applications, leading to a unique type of open source practice involving partnership and investments from multiple organizations. A critical research question in community source development is concerned with the rationale and the economic incentives behind investments from partnering organizations. In this paper, we examine a real world case, the Kuali community source project, and propose a cooperative decision framework to analyze investment decisions made by various types of organizations involved in community source. We analyze joint investment decisions and adopt the Black-Scholes model to capture individual organizations' decision-making in risky environments. Our analytical results are able to explain an array of observed investment behavior from community-source partners and reveal useful insights to help these organizations make decisions. Our results also facilitate a general understanding of the emerging community source development landscape.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | 14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008 |
| Pages | 3473-3483 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Volume | 6 |
| State | Published - 2008 |
| Event | 14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008 - Toronto, ON, Canada Duration: Aug 14 2008 → Aug 17 2008 |
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| Other | 14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008 |
|---|---|
| Country | Canada |
| City | Toronto, ON |
| Period | 8/14/08 → 8/17/08 |
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Keywords
- Black-scholes model
- Community source
- Decision analysis
- Decision-making
- Kuali case
- Open source
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Science Applications
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Library and Information Sciences
- Information Systems
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A cooperative analysis framework for investment decisions in community source partnerships. / Liu, Manlu; Zeng, Dajun; Zhao, J. Leon.
14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008. Vol. 6 2008. p. 3473-3483.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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AU - Liu, Manlu
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AB - Community source development has emerged as a new way of developing enterprise applications, leading to a unique type of open source practice involving partnership and investments from multiple organizations. A critical research question in community source development is concerned with the rationale and the economic incentives behind investments from partnering organizations. In this paper, we examine a real world case, the Kuali community source project, and propose a cooperative decision framework to analyze investment decisions made by various types of organizations involved in community source. We analyze joint investment decisions and adopt the Black-Scholes model to capture individual organizations' decision-making in risky environments. Our analytical results are able to explain an array of observed investment behavior from community-source partners and reveal useful insights to help these organizations make decisions. Our results also facilitate a general understanding of the emerging community source development landscape.
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