Contracts and Motivations. The Case of Open Source
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Keywords
extrinsic and intrisic motivations; agency contracts; open-source software; open-source software developers;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
- M52 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects
- M54 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Labor Management
- O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
- M12 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2008-10-28 (Business Economics)
- NEP-CTA-2008-10-28 (Contract Theory and Applications)
- NEP-IPR-2008-10-28 (Intellectual Property Rights)
- NEP-PPM-2008-10-28 (Project, Program and Portfolio Management)
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