ECIS 2008 Paper Presentation
O3C researchers Phil O’Reilly and Pat Finnegan presented a paper entitled “The Relationship between Electronic Marketplace Ownership and Performance: An Exploratory Study” to the 16th European Conference on Information Systems.
O3C Welcomes New Post-Doctoral Researcher
The O3C project is pleased to announce the arrival of Olof Nilsson, a senior lecturer in Social Informatics at Mid Sweden University, who will be working with the O3C project as a post-doctoral researcher from January-December 2008. Dr. Nilsson’s research has been focused on access to public information systems, and he has taken an active part in two “triple helix” projects developing open source applications for public authorities. His research on access has been published in International Journal of Public Information Systems, in a forthcoming edition of International Journal for Humanistic and Social Computing, and also in a number of international conference proceedings. He is currently researching how open source and open innovation facilitates changes to the traditional approach to public service and government in Sweden.
Enterprise Ireland Seminar on “Innovating the Business Model”
O3C researchers Jeremy Hayes and Shane Fitzgerald attended the Enterprise Ireland Seminar on “Innovating the Business Model” on the 24th October 2007 at the Stillorgan Park Hotel in Dublin. In this post, Jeremy presents a summary of the seminar.
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ECIS 2008 Track on Innovation and Open Source Software
O3C researcher Joseph Feller, together with Mogens Kühn Pedersen (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark), will be chairing a track on Innovation and Open Source Software at the 16th European Conference on Information Systems (July 9-11, 2008).
OSS 2007 Paper Presentation
O3C researcher Pat Finnegan and co-author Lorraine Morgan (LERO) presented a paper entitled “Benefits and Drawbacks of Open Source Software: An Exploratory Study of Secondary Software Firms” to The Third International Conference on Open Source Systems.
OSS 2007 Conference
03C researcher Joseph Feller served as co-Program Chair (with Alberto Sillitti, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy) for the The Third International Conference on Open Source Systems (an IFIP WG 2.13 Working Conference), which took place on June 11-14, 2007, in Limerick, Ireland.
ECIS 2007 Paper Presentations
O3C researchers Phil O’Reilly and Pat Finnegan presented a paper entitled “Electronic Marketplaces as Market System Intermediaries: An Exploratory Study and Characteristics Framework” to the 15th European Conference on Information Systems.
Also, Pat Finnegan and co-author Lorraine Morgan (LERO) presented a paper entitled “How Perceptions of Open Source Software Influence Adoption: An Exploratory Study.”
ECIS 2007 Panel
O3C researchers Joseph Feller and Pat Finnegan participated in a panel on “Open Source in Industrial Contexts” at the 15th European Conference on Information Systems. Their co-panelists were three members of the COSI research project: Frank van der Linden (Philips Medical), Pentti Marttiin (Nokia) and Björn Lundell (University of Skövde).
ISR Workshop Presentation
O3C researchers Joseph Feller, Pat Finnegan and Jeremy Hayes, together with co-author Brian Fitzgerald (LERO), presented a paper entitled “Open Source Service Networks: A Study of Socially Enabled Business Exchanges” to the Information Systems Research Special Issue Workshop on the Interplay between Digital and Social Networks at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland.
O3C Project Launched
The Open Code, Content and Commerce (O3C) Business Models project officially launched today, April 1, 2007.
O3C Business Models is a three-year research project investigating open production, innovation and value creation strategies, e.g. open source software, open content, open innovation, crowdsourcing, user-led innovation, etc. The project is funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences.