Developer experience · Conceptual/empirical case study

From peer production to productization: A study of socially enabled business models

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Electronic Commerce. · 2008

Feller, J., Finnegan, P., Fitzgerald, B., Hayes, J.

Original paper ↗

Summary

Business models can create value around open code through complementary services and ecosystem participation.

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Possible founder application

Test open-core, support, hosting and ecosystem complements rather than monetizing code alone.

Reported result

What the study found

Business models can create value around open code through complementary services and ecosystem participation.

Research question

What the authors investigated

How can firms create value in OSS environments?

Design

Conceptual/empirical case study

Sample and setting

Commercial OSS and Red Hat-related business context

Scope and transfer

Limitations to keep in view

Abstract evidence; case-focused generalizability is limited.

Research sources

Publisher DOI landing page abstract; design, context and findings are taken from the abstract.

Study strength

3.5/5 Abstract-level evidence is useful for framing questions; verify full methods before transfer.

How this was assessed

The 1–5 evidence-check score is a practical reading aid, not a formal peer review or a probability that a conclusion is true. It combines design strength (2 points), sample reporting (1), comparison/control clarity (1), and how much of the paper could be checked (1). Access affects how confidently this directory can assess a study, not the study's underlying quality. Blinding is reported separately because it is not relevant to every design.

Design transparency · 2/2

Based on the reported study design in the retrieved source.

Sample and setting · 1/1

The sample context is stated; a numerical count is preserved only when reported.

Outcome clarity · 1/1

The finding is summarized from publisher or article metadata.

Access for checking · 0.5/1

Only abstract or bibliographic access was confirmed.

Double-blind? The retrieved publisher record does not establish whether participants or outcome assessors were blinded.

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