Title: The Timing to Go Open: Evidence from Startups’ Open Source Innovation Activities before Acquisition
Abstract:Prior studies on firms’ motivation to participate in open innovation have primarily paid attention to established firms, this study complements prior studies by investigating when startups will be mot...Prior studies on firms’ motivation to participate in open innovation have primarily paid attention to established firms, this study complements prior studies by investigating when startups will be motivated to go open. We propose that selecting the correct timing to go open is critical in startups’ open innovation strategy, as it shapes both the costs and benefits of going open. Leveraging IT startups’ participation in the open source collaboration platform GitHub in their pre-acquisition period as our empirical context, we show that startups first increase and then decrease their technology disclosure and collaborations on GitHub in the pre-acquisition period, and such changes are moderated by both the complexity and novelty of the technological knowledge.Read More
Publication Year: 2022
Publication Date: 2022-07-06
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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