%0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2013 %T Going Open: Does it Mean Giving Away Control? %A Nadia Noori %A Michael Weiss %K and collaboration %K governance %K Open innovation %K open source %K platforms %K regulatory tools %X Open source software has evolved from being an effort driven by a collective of volunteers to become an integral part of commercial software. Constant demands for new features besides maintaining product quality made companies seek open source as an answer for these demands. These growing demands brought with them control of quality, architecture, contribution management, and community management. This article explores the governance strategies adopted by open source software projects to manage the quality of complements (such as plug-ins that extend a platform's functionality) developed by community members outside the core team. The outcomes of the research contribute to our understanding of the strategies followed by different open source platform owners (the open source project initiators) to manage external innovation in the case of platform extensions in two areas: i) governance models and ii) regulatory tools. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 3 %P 27-31 %8 01/2013 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/647 %N 1 %1 Coral CEA Nadia Noori holds an MASc degree in Technology Innovation Management from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Her research interests includes open source platforms, governance models and collaboration frameworks, and product architecture and design. She works currently as a Production and Platforms Manager at Coral CEA, a not-for-profit organization based in Ottawa. %2 Carleton University Michael Weiss holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, and is a member of the Technology Innovation Management program. His research interests include open source ecosystems, mashups/Web 2.0, business process modeling, social network analysis, and product architecture and design. Michael has published on the evolution of open source communities, licensing of open services, and the innovation in the mashup ecosystem. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/647