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Open Sourcing as a Profit-Maximizing Strategy for Downstream Firms

Alfonso Gambardella
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Alfonso Gambardella
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Department of Management & Technology and Invernizzi Center for Research on Innovation, Organization, Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Bocconi University, 20136 Milan, Italy;Centre for Economic Policy Research, London EC1V 0DX, United Kingdom;
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Eric von Hippel
Eric von Hippel
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MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
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Alfonso Gambardella

Department of Management & Technology and Invernizzi Center for Research on Innovation, Organization, Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Bocconi University, 20136 Milan, Italy;Centre for Economic Policy Research, London EC1V 0DX, United Kingdom;

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Eric von Hippel

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7235-1032

MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142

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Published Online:22 Feb 2019https://doi.org/10.1287/stsc.2018.0075

Volume 4, Issue 1

March 2019

Pages 1-60

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Received:October 08, 2017
Accepted:November 24, 2018
Published Online:February 22, 2019

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Alfonso Gambardella, Eric von Hippel (2019) Open Sourcing as a Profit-Maximizing Strategy for Downstream Firms. Strategy Science 4(1):41-57.

https://doi.org/10.1287/stsc.2018.0075

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The authors thank the editor of this journal, Dan Levinthal, and two anonymous reviewers for excellent feedback and suggestions during the review process. They also received very valuable comments on earlier versions of this paper from Carliss Baldwin, Pooyan Khashabi, Frank Nagle, Claudio Panico, Christina Raasch, Feng Zhu, and the seminar participants in the Department of Management & Technology of Bocconi University.

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