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Technology and Development: The Political Economy of Open Source Software

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2010
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Borges, Bruno de Moura
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Büthe, Tim
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This dissertation examines the role of governments in adopting Open Source Software (OSS) for their needs and tries to explain the variation in adoption and implmentation, among both developing and developed countries. The work argues that there are different logics guiding developing and developed countries OSS adoption. As developed countries follow a pattern based on the Varieties of Capitalism model, the difference in OSS adoption in developing countries is a combination of the relation between the state and market forces (especially how business and firms are organized) and state capacity to overcome collective action problems and to reap the benefits of technological upgrade. This dissertation also presents a structured and focused comparison of two cases (Brazil and Mexico) and define which are the factors that matter for the outcomes.

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Dissertation
Department
Political Science
Subject
Political Science, International Law and Relations
Political Science, Public Administration
Comparative Politics
Development
Industrial Policy
International Relations
Open Source
Technology
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Borges, Bruno de Moura (2010). Technology and Development: The Political Economy of Open Source Software. Dissertation, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/2290.
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