Openness and Information Technology

Abstract

Over the past decade, “open” phenomena enabled by information technology (IT) have received an increasing amount of interest from information systems (IS) researchers. Evidence of this interest can be seen in tracks (e.g., the underlying track of this special issue, the track on “Openness and IT” at ECIS); conferences (e.g., the IFIP Working Group 2.13 OSS conferences); journal special issues (e.g., Whelan et al. 2014); and the formation of the AIS Special Interest Group on Open Research and Practice (SIGOPEN) and its related workshops (pre-ECIS and pre- ICIS).