INSTITUTIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE SPONSORSHIP OF COMMON TECHNOLOGICAL STANDARDS: THE CASE OF SUN MICROSYSTEMS AND JAVA.

2002/02/01 by R. Garud, Raghu Garud, Sanjay Jain +3 · 11 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Computer Science · #Innovation and Knowledge Management #Business Strategy and Innovation #Open Source Software Innovations

paper · doi:10.2307/3069292

Abstract

The institutional entrepreneurship implicit in a firm's sponsorship of its technology as a common standard is beset by several challenges. These challenges arise from a standard's property to enabl...

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