Τα οικονομια του λογισμικου ανοικτου κώδικα. Μελέτη και σχεδιασμός μοντέλου κοστολόγησης και τιμολόγησης για εφαρμογή στην ανάπτυξη λογισμικού ανοικτού κώδικα

The economics of open source software. Study and design of appropriate cost accounting and pricing models suitable for the development of OSS. (Αγγλική)

  1. MSc thesis
  2. ΒΑΒΕΚΗΣ, ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΣ
  3. Διοίκηση Επιχειρήσεων (MBA)
  4. 04 Σεπτεμβρίου 2016 [2016-09-04]
  5. Αγγλικά
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  7. ΠΑΠΑΔΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ, ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΣ , ΚΑΘΗΓΗΤΗΣ
  8. ΛΑΖΑΡΙΔΗΣ, ΙΩΑΝΝΗΣ, ΚΑΘΗΓΗΤΗΣ | ΜΙΧΙΩΤΗΣ, ΑΘΑΝΑΣΙΟΣ, ΚΑΘΗΓΗΤΗΣ
  9. Ανοικτό λογισμικό | Open Source Software | Οικονομικά | Economics | Κοστολόγηση | cost accounting | Τιμολόγηση | Pricing
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    • Μελέτη και σχεδιασμός μοντέλου κοστολόγησης και τιμολόγησης για εφαρμογή στην ανάπτυξη λογισμικού ανοικτού κώδικα
    • The open source software (OSS) has gained a significant market share in the area of IT software, by offering reliability, zero licensing cost while it has attracted a large number of users and software developers from different locations and organizations motivating them to share source code knowledge and effort. While a large number of cost estimation, management and pricing models exist in the literature for the development of proprietary licensed software, this is not the case for OSS were only a few studies exist (due to its nature of free development, free distribution, free access to the source code). On the other hand the companies participating in OSS projects are increasing, while big names in the IT/IS area (IBM, Oracle, SUN, Microsoft) are investing on this. Initially this work focuses on studying the appropriateness and the application of classical accounting models in the OSS area and to identify and develop new methods and tools that will help companies to estimate the effort and consequently the value of their participation in the development of OSS projects. Following, the most appropriate pricing models for OSS are identified and their characteristics are presented taking into account the strategic options of the companies in the area. The strategic implications for the OSS firms and the motivations for individuals are presented while this work will attempt to raise questions concerning the strategic options that a company has in order to increase its benefits by participating in OSS projects. The theoretical part of this work is based on the study of cost estimation models used for the effort determination for software development, and of pricing models, while the Resource Based View, the open innovation, the expectancy theory and the social networking theory are going to be used to explain the strategic benefits from the OSS participation. The theoretical assumptions are validated by expert interviews (university professors, IT/IS project managers, IT company owners and IT senior personnel) while supplementary data from questionaries’ answered by IT working personnel verify the proposed positions.
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