Collaborative development of open-source components for dangerous goods road transportation

The commitment to open source enterprise projects and usage of resulting components promises diverse potentials for various industries. Nonetheless, collaborative development can be challenging for participating organizations, especially in an inter-organizational context. This research paper shares experiences from an open source development project focusing on Blockchain components for dangerous goods road transportation. By means of design principles derived from the gained experiences the paper illustrates circumstances for successful collaboration in open source development projects and how the applicability and added value of respective results can be ensured.