The research also identifies the need for governance models and architecture of participation in collectives that embrace open innovation practices to help maintain momentum and ensure continuity. The outcomes of the research contribute to our understanding of the strategies followed by different open source platform owners (the open source project initiators) to manage external innovation in the case of platform extensions in two areas: i) governance models and ii) regulatory tools.Ĭonventional research on open innovation and collaboration examines how organizations open up the innovation process and how they control the collaboration with others. This article explores the governance strategies adopted by open source software projects to manage the quality of complements (such as plug-ins that extend a platform's functionality) developed by community members outside the core team. These growing demands brought with them control of quality, architecture, contribution management, and community management. Constant demands for new features besides maintaining product quality made companies seek open source as an answer for these demands. Open source software has evolved from being an effort driven by a collective of volunteers to become an integral part of commercial software. They think that developers randomly throw code at the code base and see what sticks. Many people think that open source projects are sort of chaotic and anarchistic. Nadia Noori, Michael Weiss Download this article as a PDF

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