@inproceedings{ada8664b1d4a439fb590f0d99e99ce51,
title = "A cooperative analysis framework for investment decisions in community source partnerships",
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.",
keywords = "Black-scholes model, Community source, Decision analysis, Decision-making, Kuali case, Open source",
author = "Manlu Liu and Zeng, {Daniel D.} and Zhao, {J. Leon}",
year = "2008",
month = dec
day = "1",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781605609539",
series = "14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008",
pages = "3473--3483",
booktitle = "14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008",
note = "14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008 ; Conference date: 14-08-2008 Through 17-08-2008",
}