Brett W. Young

Publications

Journal Articles

  1. Germonprez, M., Mathiassen, L., Kendall, J., Kendall, K., Young, B., & Warner, B.  (2017). “A Theory of Responsive Design: A Field Study of Corporate Engagement with Open Source Communities.”  Information Systems Research (ISR), 28 (1), pp. 64-83.
  2. Young, Brett; Mathiassen, Lars; Davidson, Elizabeth (2016). “Inconsistent and Incongruent Frames during IT-enabled Change: An Action Research into Sales Process Innovation.” Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS).  Vol. 17: Iss. 7, Article 1.  Available at: http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol17/iss7/1  [ AWARDED BEST PAPER IN JAIS 2017 ]
  3. Germonprez, Matt; Kendall, Julie; Kendall, Ken; Young, Brett (2014). “Born Free: How the Origins and Advancement of Open Source Software through Sharing will Uphold the Values of Free.” Decision Line (45:1), pp 16-19, January 2014.
  4. Germonprez, M., Kendall, J., Kendall, K., and Young, B. (2014). “Collectivism, Creativity, Competition, and Control in Open Source Software Development: Reflections on the Emergent Governance of the SPDX Working Group,” International Journal of Information Systems and Management (1:1/2), pp 125-145.
  5. Lewis, Mark; Young, Brett; Mathiassen, Lars; Rai, Arun; and Welke, Richard. (2007) “Business process innovation based on stakeholder perceptions,” Information, Knowledge, Systems Management (6:1), pp 7-27.

Book Chapters

Peer-refereed conferences and workshops

  1. Hartley, P., Gordon, J., & Young, B. (2019).  Assessing Entrepreneurs’ Degree of Preparedness through the Eyes of Expert Investors.   United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
  2. Young, B. W., Hartley, P. M., & Gordon, J. M. (2018).  Understanding the (Mis)alignment of Ecosystems in Entrepreneurship Education.   United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
  3. Gordon, J., Young, B., & Hartley, P. (2017).  Understanding the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in Higher Education: A Mindmap Approach.   United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
  4. Takeda, Hirotoshi; Young, Brett; Cuellar, Michael (2017) “Online Community Health Simulation.”  Presented at the Nineteenth Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Chicago, Illinois. August 15-17, 2017. http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2017/TREOs/Presentations/68/
  5. Gordon, J., Young, B., & Hartley, P. (2016). “Understanding the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in Higher Education: A Mindmap Approach.” Proceedings of the 2017 United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.  January 19-22, 2017.
  6. Germonprez, M., Kendall, K., Kendall, J., and Young, B. (2014). Why Corporations Participate in Open Source Software Development: A Game Theory Approach, in Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, Tampa, FL.
  7. Kendall, Julie; Kendall, Ken; Germonprez, Matt; and Young, Brett (2014) “Expressing the Domestication of Open Source: How the Ecosystem Metaphor Illuminates and Obscures Understanding of Organizational Participation in Open Communities.” Presented and in Proceedings of the Forty-Third Annual Meeting of the Western Decision Sciences Institute, Napa, CA  (April 2014)
  8. Kendall, Ken; Kendall, Julie; Germonprez, Matt; and Young, Brett (2014) “On the Rationality of For-Profit Corporations Participating in Open Source Software Communities.” Presented and in Proceedings of the Forty-Third Annual Meeting of the Western Decision Sciences Institute, Napa, CA  (April 2014)
  9. Allen, J.P.; Germonprez, Matt; Young, Brett; Kendall, Ken; and Kendall, Julie (2013). “Managing the Boundary Between Commerce and Commons” presented at the SIG2013 Workshop on Openness and Transparency Research, Milan, Italy (December 15, 2013)
  10. Hirotoshi Takeda, Michael Cuellar, Brett Young, and Robert Sainsbury, (2013) “Online Community Influence: A Study Using the Hirsch Metric and Social Network Analysis.”  Proceedings of the Nineteenth Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Chicago, Illinois, August 15-17, 2013. http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2013/VirtualCommunities/RoundTablePresentations/6/
  11. Germonprez, Matt; Young, Brett; Mathiassen, Lars; Kendall, Julie E.; Kendall, Ken E.; and Warner, Brian, “Risk Mitigation in Corporate Participation with Open Source Communities: Protection and Compliance in an Open Source Supply Chain” (2012). International Research Workshop on IT Project Management 2012 (IRWITPM 2012). Paper 3.  http://aisel.aisnet.org/irwitpm2012/3
  12. Hirotoshi Takeda, Michael Cuellar, Brett Young, and Robert Sainsbury, “What Drives User Contribution in an Online Community? A Study in Contributor Influence and User Status” (July 29, 2012). In AMCIS 2012 Proceedings. Paper 23. http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2012/proceedings/VirtualCommunities/23
  13. Cuellar, Michael J.; Young, Brett; and Takeda, Hirotoshi, “Online Community User Influence: A Study Using User Status” (2012). SAIS 2012 Proceedings. Paper 10. http://aisel.aisnet.org/sais2012/10
  14. Takeda, Hirotoshi; Young, Brett; Cuellar, Michael. (2011) “All Contributions are Not Created Equal: Measuring User Influence in Online Communities with Hirsch Indices.” IFIP 8.2 OASIS Workshop, Shanghai, China.
  15. Young, Brett; Takeda, Hiro; Cuellar, Mike. (2011) “Investigating the Impact of Offline Events on Group Development in an Online Sports Community,” in SAIS 2011 Proceedings; Paper presented at the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Southern Association of Information Systems, Atlanta, GA. Paper 27. http://aisel.aisnet.org/sais2011/27
  16. Young, Brett; Mathiassen, Lars; and Rai, Arun. (2008) “A Model for Digitally-Enabled Business Process Innovation: The Case of the U.S. Minority Business Network,” Paper presented at the 16th European Conference on Information Systems, Galway, Ireland. Paper 248. http://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2008/248
  17. Kasi, Vijay; Young, Brett; and Poddar, Amit. (2005) “Threats to Silent Commerce: A Delphi Study,” in SAIS 2005 Proceedings, Ninth Annual Conference of the Southern Association of Information Systems, Savannah, GA. http://aisel.aisnet.org/sais2005/41

Editor Duties

  1. Young, Brett and Lars Mathiasssen (Eds.). (2013) Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Engaged Scholarship Management.
  2. Young, Brett and Kalle Lyytinen (Eds.). (2011) Proceedings of the First International Conference on Engaged Scholarship Management.

Papers under development

  • A paper on entrepreneurship intentions
  • A paper on entrepreneurship ecosystems (currently under review)
  • A paper on IT-enabled sales process innovation using an action research approach. Targeted for a marketing journal.
  • A paper on user influence in online social networks. Targeted for a national I.S. conference.
  • A paper on teaching entrepreneurship to students.  Targeted for a teaching conference.