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This paper delves into the question: How does an entrepreneur commercialising an open source technology (an “open entrepreneur”) respond when an underlying infrastructure that is maintained by a distributed and heterogeneous community become stigmatised, particularly when the source of the stigma is unclear? Research has found that, when faced with stigma, the most effective and robust strategy for...
Despite a wealth of research on the tourist experience, empirical evidence remains weak due to difficulties in data collection during people’s holidays. Tourist experience has thus primarily been analysed from a fixed point, such as prior motivations to travel or retrospective accounts. However, this obscures important information on tourists as they transition through the total experience. This paper...
Crowdfunding has thus far been run by stand-alone crowdfunding platforms, many of them formed by for-profit companies. However, a number of universities have begun to start their own platforms. These "corporate crowdfunding" platforms are likely to have more resources at their disposal than stand-alone platforms but less flexibility as the overarching organization exerts control and decision-making...
Crowdfunding research thus far has largely examined its link to entrepreneurship, despite the phenomenon's digital nature. This mini-track calls for papers that delve into the digital, or information systems, involved in crowdfunding.
Studies of legitimacy have typically looked at the creation and maintenance of legitimacy by both established and new organisations. This paper looks at how a set of entrepreneurs use the legitimacy of one, Alternative, community as a scaffold to build legitimacy in a more Mainstream one, despite the fact that norms between the two were often contradictory. Studying Bitcoin entrepreneurs in Europe,...
This paper presents an initial report on modelling patterns and architectures for system of systems (SoSs) and their constituent systems (CSs). Fundamental architectural principles for systems and SoSs and relevant work published so far are discussed and summarised. We introduce an initial set of five architectural patterns suitable for SoS design, illustrating each pattern with an SoS example and...
Systems of systems (SoSs) are vulnerable to faults, for example arising as a result of the distribution and independence of their constituent systems. Our previous work has presented an initial framework for reasoning about faults and fault-tolerant design within an SoS at the architectural level, using a simple example of a single failure. In this paper we present a motivating example of an SoS within...
Crowd funding has been embraced by entrepreneurs across the globe as an alternative to traditional sources of funding. However, it is not clear that ICT entrepreneurs in Sweden have embraced it as warmly, despite the potential benefits it offers. This paper explores this empirical puzzle in light of two complementary theoretical literatures: institutional entrepreneurship and technology affordances...
This paper describes the experience of managing a requirements process between distributed parties with diverse interests in a research project context. We present some key 'lessons learned' from a new case study, the DESTECS project, and summarise lessons learned from previous experience reports. Key risks include obstacles imposed by the geographic distance, the different domain knowledge and working...
Several previous studies have suggested methods for predicting change-proneness based on software complexity metrics. We hypothesise that data from the early stages of a development project such as requirements and design could also be used to make such predictions. We define here a set of new metrics to capture data from the requirements and/or design stages, and derive values for these metrics using...
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