Abstract
In his groundbreaking essay “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”, Eric Raymond framed 25 years ago what we know today as open-source. It also started – along with the rise of new technologies and business models – an unprecedented emergence of new concepts and research directions in information systems and management research. Open innovation, open strategy, or open platforms are only a few examples of what we know as organizational openness. With 25 years of openness research passed, this short paper aims to reveal the path of openness from a non-commercial community movement towards the open platform business models that we know today from the major IT companies of the world. Moreover, we introduce three ongoing research-in-progress projects that aim to bring new perspectives towards openness.
Recommended Citation
Wolff, Bastian; Schlagwein, Daniel; and Schoder, Detlef, "About the Changing Nature of “Openness” – 25 Years of
Openness Research in Information Systems and Management" (2025). ACIS 2025 Proceedings. 21.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/acis2025/21