Second call for paper: DEADLINE EXTENDED

*CALL FOR PAPER*

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON OPEN SOURCE SYSTEMS (OSS2007)

TOWARD A NEW INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION?
OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE IN ECONOMIC AND MANAGERIAL PERSPECTIVE

OSSEMP 2007

Limerick – Ireland, June 14th 2007


*AIMS AND SCOPE*

Over the past few years, Open Source software has gained more and more
economic importance. Beyond developers and communities, various economic
actors including numerous start-ups and major companies have become
essential players in the open source world. Open-source software now
belongs to the mainstream of the software industry, and is rapidly
modifying major elements of its industrial organization.

However, this new emerging organization of the software industry, and
the role of the different players – developers, communities, business
firms, universities, public agencies, governments, etc. – and of their
interactions – the rules of this emerging game – are yet largely unclear.

Located in the context of OSS2007 in order to foster close and fruitful
interactions with scholars from various disciplines, and notably with
software engineering researchers, this workshop aims at contributing to
the current evolutions of the economic and managerial research agendas
about open source software and to provide both an assessment of where
economists and management researchers are about these issues, and an
analysis of newer directions focusing notably on business, production,
diffusion and innovation models.

*THEMES*

Original contributions from economic and managerial perspectives are
welcome, empirical as well as theoretical. The focus of these
contributions should be on the ways in which open-source software is
shaping the industrial organization of the software industry, and on the
influence of open systems on other sectors. Contributions are
particularly welcome about the following issues:

/- *Business models*/: OSS strategies of large and small software firms,
sustainability of OSS-based business models, platform strategies,
hybridisation between commercial and free/open software, relationships
between software firms and OSS communities (firms' contributions and
strategies, role of so-called paid developers, of networks, etc.),
implications of OSS licensing, and of copyright and patent issues, etc.

/- *Production models*/: specificities of the OSS production model and
their economic and managerial consequences, allocation and coordination
mechanisms, characteristics of open-source software projects and project
ecologies, modularity, etc.

/- *Innovation models*/: open innovation models, factors favouring the
emergence of OSS-like innovation regimes, policies dedicated to the
software and to other sectors, etc.

/- *Diffusion models*/: empirical evidence on OSS diffusion, typologies
of users and of adoption motives, users' characteristics, role of users'
communities, competition and standardization issues, market dynamics of
OSS and proprietary software, integration of open and closed solutions, etc.

Professor *Paul A. David* (Stanford University and Oxford Internet
Institute) will give a keynote presentation to the workshop.

*SUBMISSION *

*Extended abstracts* will be considered, but a preference will be given
to *full papers*. Note that at least one author of each accepted
submission must attend the workshop and that all workshop participants
must pay the workshop registration fee (20 euros).

Submissions should be in either .sxw, .doc, .rtf or .pdf format. Each
submission should include a cover page with the full title of the paper
and the names of all authors. The body of the paper (or the extended
abstract) should include title, list of keywords and a complete list of
references.

The organizers will propose to an *international peer-reviewed journal*
to collect the best presented papers into a *Special Issue*.

Papers should be submitted by e-mail to [log in to unmask] and
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*DEADLINES*

Authors should send their potential contribution by *APRIL 10TH 2007*

Decisions of paper acceptance will be made by *April 30th , 2007*.


*SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE*

*/Cristiano Antonelli/*, Professor, /University// of Turin/, IT

*/Stefano Comino/*, Assistant Professor, /University// of Trento/, IT

*/Linus Dahlander/*, Research Fellow, /Imperial// College London, UK/

*/Paul A. David/*, Professor, /Stanford University/, US; /Oxford
Internet Institute/, UK

*/Lars Frederiksen/*, Research Associate, /Imperial// College London, UK/

*/Alfonso Gambardella/*, Professor, /Bocconi University/, IT

*/Marco Giarratana/*, Assistant Professor, /Universidad Carlos III/, ES

*/Joachim Henkel/*, Professor, /Technische Universität München/, GE

*/Lars Bo Jeppesen/*/, /Assistant Professor/, Copenhagen Business
School/, DK//

*/Hely Koski/*, Professor, /Helsinki// School of Economics/, FI

*/Yuwei Lin/*, Research Associate, /University of Manchester/, UK

*/Alessandro Nuvolari/*, Research Fellow, /ECIS, Eindhoven University/, NL

*/Margherita Pagani/*, Assistant Professor of Management, /Bocconi
University/, IT

*/Lucia Piscitello/*, Professor, /Politecnico di Milano/

*/Alessandro Rossi/*, Assistant Professor, /University// of Trento/, IT

*/Philipp J.H. Schroeder/*, Assistant Professor, /Aarhus School of
Business/, DK

*/Sonali Shah/*, Assistant Professor, /University// of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, US/

*/Dominique Torre/*, Professor, /University Nice Sophia Antipolis/, FR

*/Salvatore Torrisi/*, Associate Professor, /University of Bologna/, IT

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*ORGANIZING COMMITTEE*

*/Jean-Michel Dalle/*, Professor, /University Pierre et Marie Curie
(Paris 6)/, FR

*/Cristina Rossi/*, Assistant Professor, /Polytechnic of Milan/, IT

*/Francesco Rullani/*, Post-doc Fellow, /Copenhagen// Business School/, DK


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Cristina Rossi, Ph.D.
Politecnico di Milano
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Gestionale
P.za L. da Vinci, 32
20133 MILANO
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