About
Project Summary
Open Code, Content and Commerce (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 goals of the project are to galvanise existing knowledge in the research area, identify a critical path for future research, provide a substantial portfolio of rich case studies, create and validate frameworks for designing business models based on open production, innovation and value creation strategies, and disseminate the study findings to a broad academic and business audience.
It is envisaged that the research will result in a major contribution to our scientific understanding of the business models emerging from open strategies, and also have immediate practical implications for business decision makers.
The O3C project is funded by the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Science (IRCHSS), and hosted by the Business Information Systems group at University College Cork, Ireland, for a three year period (April 2007 - March 2010).
Project Staff
Principal Investigators
Joseph Feller, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer in Business Information Systems at University College Cork, Ireland. His research focuses on open source software and other forms of collaborative production. He has published several books and his work has appeared in leading international journals and conferences including Information Systems Research, Information Systems Journal, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Journal of Database Management, the International Conference on Information Systems, the European Conference on Information Systems, and working conferences of several IFIP Working Groups. He has also published widely in practitioner-oriented publications and is a frequent contributor to the Cutter Consortium. He was program chair for the IEEE/ACM workshop series on open source software engineering (2001–2005) and the 3rd International Conference on Open Source Systems (IFIP 2.13) and has edited several journal special issues on the subject of open source. He can be reached at jfeller [at] afis.ucc.ie.
Patrick Finnegan received his Ph.D. from the University of Warwick, England, and is currently a senior lecturer in information systems at University College Cork, Ireland. His research on interorganizational systems and electronic business has been published in a number of international journals and conferences, including Information Systems Research, Information Systems Journal, Information Technology and People, DATABASE, Journal of Information Technology, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Electronic Markets, the International Conference on Information Systems, the European Conference on Information Systems, and working conferences of IFIP. He is currently a Senior Editor of Information Systems Journal and is the past president of the Irish Association for Information Systems. He can be reached at p.finnegan [at] ucc.ie.
Associate Investigators
Jeremy Hayes is a lecturer in Business Information Systems at University College Cork, Ireland. His research interests are in the area of electronic business models, interorganizational systems, open source software, and business agility. His research is published in leading international journals and conferences, including Information Systems Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Database Management, the European Conference on Information Systems, and working conferences of IFIP. He can be reached at j.hayes [at] ucc.ie.
Philip O’Reilly holds a Ph.D. from the National University of Ireland and is a tenured lecturer in Business Information Systems at University College Cork. He is presently involved in research projects focusing on new business forms, open innovation, open source software, and virtual worlds. He has published his research findings at international conferences and journals including the European Conference on Information Systems, the Americas Conference on Information Systems, IFIP Working Group 8.3, Electronic Markets, Journal of Enterprise Information Management, and The Journal of Systems and Information Technology. He can be reached at philip.oreilly [at] ucc.ie.
Björn Lundell (bjorn.lundell [at] his.se) has been a staff member at the University of Skövde, Sweden, since 1984, and has been researching the open source phenomenon for a number of years. He led, with Feller and Finnegan, a work package in the EU FP6 CALIBRE project (2004-2006) and is currently the technical manager in the industrial research project COSI (2005-2008), involving analysis of the adoption of open source practices within companies. His research is reported in a variety of international journals and conferences. He is a founding member of the IFIP Working Group 2.13 on Open Source Software, and the founding chair of Open Source Sweden, an industry association established by Swedish open source companies. He is the organizer of the Fifth International Conference of Open Source Systems (OSS 2009), which is to be held in Skövde, Sweden. In addition, his research has also included fundamental research on evaluation, and associated method support.
Post-Doctoral Researchers
Pavel Andreev joined the O3C project as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in August 2009. Pavel earned his Ph.D. in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. His dissertation focused on analyzing, at the individual level, the impacts of information and communication technologies (ICT) on personal leisure activities and leisure-related travel. The research, which yielded interesting results pertaining to the effects of ICT on leisure activities demand, activities, and travel, resulted so far in six journal and conference papers, as well as a number of seminar and conference presentations, including Transportation Research part C: Emerging Technologies and the International Conference on Information Systems. His research also focuses on management of information systems (IS) and, in particular, Organization of Open Source Projects (including business modeling with implementation of Open Source technologies), Social Networks, Mobility, Healthcare Information Systems (HIS) and Quantitative Research Methods. He is currently researching how peer production is organized on exploring open source development through an activity theory lens. He can be reached at p.andreev [at] ucc.ie.
Jeff Moretz joined the O3C project as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in August 2009. Jeff describes himself as “a recovering consultant, having succumbed to the affliction between his two forays into post-graduate study at Michigan State University and then the University of Texas.” His research interests focus on the impact of information exchange and information technologies on organizational designs, business models, and strategies. His doctoral research examines the impact of information and information technologies on the boundaries of firms and on work structures within firms. He is currently researching examples of Benkler’s peer production concept and the organization of open source software projects. He can be reached at j.moretz [at] ucc.ie.
Olof Nilsson served as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the O3C project from Jan-Dec 2008. He is a senior lecturer in Social Informatics at Mid Sweden University. His 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. Within the O3C project, his research focused on how open source and open innovation facilitates changes to the traditional approach to public service and government in Sweden.