Location, Location, Location: How Network Embeddedness Affects Project Success in Open Source Systems
By Rajdeep Grewal, Gary L. Lilien, Girish Mallapragada. Management Sciences, 2006
536 citations recorded by the source corpus.
The community-based model for software development in open source environments is becoming a viable alternative to traditional firm-based models. To better understand the workings of open source environments, we examine the effects of network embeddedness---or the nature of the relationship among projects and developers---on the success of open source projects. We find that considerable heterogeneity exists in the network embeddedness of open source projects and project managers. We use a visual representation of the affiliation network of projects and developers as well as a formal statistical analysis to demonstrate this heterogeneity and to investigate how these structures differ across projects and project managers. Our main results surround the effect of this differential network embeddedness on project success. We find that network embeddedness has strong and significant effects on both technical and commercial success, but that those effects are quite complex. We use latent class regression analysis to show that multiple regimes exist and that some of the effects of network embeddedness are positive under some regimes and negative under others. We use project age and number of page views to provide insights into the direction of the effect of network embeddedness on project success. Our findings show that different aspects of network embeddedness have powerful but subtle effects on project success and suggest that this is a rich environment for further study.
Subfields: Communication, Computer Science Applications, Information Systems
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/9572722848e2bbef3afe05710f2ec541d4f3139b
How researchers see this paper
The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.
In Communication
In Computer Science Applications
In Information Systems
Citations in the corpus
- Emergence of New Project Teams from Open Source Software Developer Networks: Impact of Prior Collaboration Ties (2008, background): “1996), the composition of an OSSD project team in terms of its developers and their positions vis-à-vis the OSSD network may influence its technical and commercial success through its impact on the likelihood of attracting developer attention (Grewal et al. 2006).”
- Information Technology Competencies, Organizational Agility, and Firm Performance: Enabling and Facilitating Roles (2013, methodology): “Consistent with emerging research that uses CLCRA to test hypotheses (e.g., Grewal et al. 2006), we use such analyses to verify whether a single-regime aggregate model is appropriate; if not, we further use CLCRA to identify (1) the appropriate number of regimes that indicate distinct relationships…”
- Determining Optimal Levels of Nitrogen Fertilizer Using Random Parameter Models (2011, background): “Plateau functions tend to best fit data from field studies (Grimm, Paris, and Williams, 1987; Emmanuel Tumusiime is a PhD candidate and B. Wade Brorsen is a regents professor and A.J. and Susan Jacques Chair in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Oklahoma State University.”
- Validity Issues in the Use of Social Network Analysis with Digital Trace Data (2011, unknown): “Examples (e.g., Daniel & Diamant, 2008; Grewal et al., 2006; Kane, 2009) Recommendations Consider carefully how sampling logic is employed and argue for its appropriateness.”
- Supply Chain Contagion (2008, background): “Network theorists suggest that the entire network of organizations within which firms and individuals are embedded is a social network (e.g., Grewal, Lilien, and Mallapragada 2006; Ibarra, Kilduff, and Tsai 2005).”