The Role of Participation Architecture in Growing Sponsored Open Source Communities

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Different Roles, Different Strokes: Organizing Virtual Customer Environments to Promote Two Types of Customer Contributions (2010, background): “…online peer-to-peer communities wherein for-profit companies play an increasingly important hosting role—for example, in the emerging context of sponsored or commercial open source communities (West and O’Mahony 2008)—and which serves as a platform for different types of innovative contributions.”
Managing Distributed Innovation: Strategic Utilization of Open and User Innovation (2012, positive): “Some communities are sponsored by firms to support their objectives, while others may arise organically to meet the user objectives (Jeppesen & Frederiksen, 2006; West & O’Mahony, 2008).”
The open innovation research landscape: established perspectives and emerging themes across different levels of analysis (2016, neutral): “Scholars have examined the governance, coordination and architecture of communities, primarily focusing on open-source software as an empirical context (den Besten and Dalle 2008; Langlois and Garzarelli 2008; West and O’Mahony 2008).”