International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes

International Journal of Open Source Software & Processes
An Official Publication of the Information Resources Management
Association - New in 2009
www.igi-global.com/ijossp

Editor-in-Chief: Stefan Koch, Vienna University of Economics and BA, Austria
Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)

MISSION OF IJOSSP:

The International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes (IJOSSP) aims to publish high-quality original research articles on the large field of open source software and processes. The primary mission is to enhance our understanding of this field and neighbouring areas by providing a focused outlet for rigorous research employing a multitude of approaches.

COVERAGE OF IJOSSP:

IJOSSP adopts an inclusive approach in its coverage. Therefore papers from software engineering, management, sociology and other areas, as well as different research approaches are welcome. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Characteristics of open source software projects, products and processes
• Case studies of open source projects, their participants and/or their development process
• Communication and coordination in open source projects
• Open source adoption and quality
• Open source software development processes
• User-centered innovation processes
• Economics of a distributed innovation process
• Motivation of participants in open source projects and other distributed development efforts
• Business models for open source and other community-created artifacts
• Evolution of both open source software artefacts and open source communities
• Legal issues of open source software
• Implications of open source software for functional areas like public administration or teaching
• Usage and adoption of open source software in different application areas and/or countries
• Economic analyses of open source
• Open science and open knowledge
• Customer co-creation and user participation in (software) design
• Open source software and processes research methods, tools, and data repositories

Please note that despite the title, IJOSSP acknowledges, embraces and covers other respective forms and definitions of similar nature, like free software or libre software. Therefore, each occurrence of open source should be read as free/libre/open source.

SUBMITTING TO IJOSSP:

Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished manuscripts will be considered. Interested authors should consult the journal's guidelines for manuscript submissions. To ensure the high quality of published material, IJOSSP utilizes a double-blind peer review process. Upon receipt of the manuscript, an associate editor and two reviewers are selected from the Editorial Review Board of the Journal. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers.

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD

Paul David, Stanford University, USA & The University of Oxford, UK
Brian Fitzgerald, University of Limerick, Ireland
Joachim Henkel, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Eric von Hippel, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA
Georg von Krogh, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Karim Lakhani, Harvard Business School, USA
Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Jean-Michel Dalle, Universite Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX), France
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy
Joe Feller, University College Cork, Ireland
Scott Hissam, Carnegie Mellon, USA
Greg Madey, University of Notre Dame, USA
Dirk Riehle, SAP Labs LLC, USA
Gregorio Robles, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Walt Scacchi, University of California - Irvine, USA
Sebastian Spaeth, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Ioannis Stamelos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD

Ioannis Antoniadis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Evangelia Berdou, University of Sussex, UK
Cornelia Boldyreff, University of Lincoln, UK
Andrea Capiluppi, University of Lincoln, UK
Carlo Daffara, Conecta Research, Italy
Marina Fiedler, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich, Germany
Daniel German, University of Victoria, Canada
Stefan Haefliger, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Israel Herraiz, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Nicolas Jullien, TELECOM Bretagne, France
Sandeep Krishnamurthy, University of Washington, USA
George Kuk, Nottingham University Business School, UK
Jan Ljungberg, Gothenburg University, Sweden
Bjoern Lundell, University of Skoevde, Sweden
Martin Michlmayr, Hewlett-Packard, Austria
Sandro Morasca, Universita degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy
Gustaf Neumann, Vienna University of Economics and BA, Austria
Bulent Ozel, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
Barbara Russo, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy
Suleyman Sowe, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Megan Squire, Elon University, USA
Brian Still, Texas Tech University, USA
Stefan Strecker, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Giancarlo Succi, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy
Frank van der Linden, Philips Medical Systems, The Netherlands
Andreas Wiebe, Vienna University of Economics and BA, Austria
Donald Wynn Jr., University of Dayton, USA

CFP: Open R&D and Open Innovation

Building on his successful special issue on open innovation in the June 2006 issue of R&D Management, Oliver Gassmann of the University of St. Gallen is now organizing a second special issue. However, this time he’s landed Henry Chesbrough, author of three books on open innovation who is credited with coining the term. The two are joined by a third co-editor, Ellen Enkel of UniSG, who (AFAIK) is the only academic other than Chesbrough whose job is to run an open innovation center.

This year’s theme is “Open R&D and Open Innovation”. Drafts of the papers are due this year in abstract (May 8) or final (July 6) form, with final manuscripts at the end of 2008, presumably for publication in 2009.

The editors are also planning on partnering with three related conferences:

• EURAM 2008 in Lubljana and Bled, Slovenia (14-17 May);
• R&D Management Conference 2008 in Ottawa, Canada (17-20 June); and
• R&D Management Advanced Workshop 2008 in Linkoping, Sweden (15-16 September)

which I take as a hint that authors planning on submitting to the special issue should attend one of these conferences.

Personally, I hope to submit an open innovation paper to the DRUID 25th anniversary conference, but its February 29 deadline is coming up quick.

CFP: Open Innovation in IT diffusion

Today I got an e-mail advertising an academic conference next fall in Spain. Normally I round file these (or whatever the electronic equivalent is), but this one caught my eye.

The solicitation is for IFIP 8.6, and the call for papers proclaims:

Open IT-based innovation
Moving towards cooperative IT transfer
and knowledge diffusion

The program committee has some big names in IT diffusion research, with names like Richard Baskerville, Rob Fichman, Kalle Lyytinen and Burt Swanson. IFIP 8.6 is the main international conference on IT diffusion.

Is it about open innovation? The themes overlap many topics that have been central to open innovation research, including

• Open innovation models for public and private organizations.
• Open business models in non-IT sectors.
  
• Products, services and new ventures based on IT open innovation.
  
• Innovating with customers [of course, more of a "user innovation" theme]

While the whole audience won't be preaching open innovation, it seems like an opportunity for European researchers studying the IT industry to present their work and also raise the awareness of open innovation among a mainstream MIS audience.

Papers are due March 1, 2008. I'm sorry won't be able to attend, but the conference is in Madrid (Oct. 22-24) and traveling to Europe during the school year is really not practical.

CFP: Broadening the Scope of Open Innovation

Following the success of the open innovation track at the EURAM 2007 conference, we are organizing a special issue of the International Journal of Technology Management (IJTM) on "Broadening the Scope of Open Innovation".

Deadline: 1 October 2007

Guest Editors:

Oliver Gassmann, University of St.Gallen (HSG), Switzerland
Wim Vanhaverbeke, Hasselt University & Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Vareska van de Vrande, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Henry Chesbrough coined the term 'Open Innovation' to indicate how large companies combine externally and internally developed technologies in a flexible way to develop new businesses. Since then, there has been an increased awareness and interest of both practitioners and researchers into the concept of Open Innovation.

Open Innovation was originally applied to external corporate venturing, new business development, spin-ins and spin-offs, but it has many other potential application fields. Scholars are nowadays broadening the scope and deepening our understanding of Open Innovation. There is a growing need integrate Open Innovation into the mainstream management literature and to link it to concepts such as absorptive capacity, dynamic capabilities, competence building, etc. The growing range of application fields requires an integrative framework to link these different areas to each other.
Finally, Open Innovation management has proven to be difficult as most companies are not experienced with the management of external relationships.
Despite the growing efforts to explore Open Innovation practices and their impact on firms' innovation performance, many managerial questions remain unanswered.

This special issue aims to stimulate the ongoing debate on Open Innovation and advance our understanding of open innovation as a field of research.
Submissions are invited from both practitioners and management researchers and they may be purely theoretical or based on empirical research.

Subject Coverage
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

* The organisation of open innovation practices inside the firm
* What are the processes and mechanisms through which internal innovation is commercialised outside the firm?
* How do external sources of innovation enter the firm?
* The added-value of open innovation practices for all parties involved
* How is cooperation with universities, research institutes, competitors, and/or consumers organised?
* Open source as an open innovation strategy
* IP management in a world of open innovation
* How do IP rights affect open innovation practices?
* What is the role of the government in stimulating open innovation?
* How much open innovation vs. closed innovation does a company need?
* Industry and product specifics on open innovation impact
* Potentials of inter-organisational networks for open innovation
* Innovation controlling of open innovation activities (e.g. key performance indicators, controlling instruments)
* Company's capabilities to profit from open innovation
* How to link open innovation to capability building and corporate strategy processes?
* How to create and capture value in Open Innovation?
* What is the role of business models, organisation structure and corporate culture in developing efficient innovation practices?

Important Dates
Deadline for submission of manuscripts: 1 October 2007
Notification of acceptance/rejection to authors: 1 January 2008
Submission of final manuscript: 1 March 2008

More info
For more info, please visit de Inderscience website or contact Vareska van de Vrande (v.j.a.v.d.vrande@tue.nl).