Understanding Sustained Participation in Open Source Software Projects

By Yulin Fang, Derrick J. Neufeld. Journal of Management Information Systems, 2009

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Subfields: Communication, Computer Science Applications

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Understanding sustained participation in transactional virtual communities (2012, background): “Since the existence and sustainment of VCs heavily rely on ongoing participation of knowledge contributors who share their expertise (Fang and Neufeld, 2009; Roberts et al., 2006), their continuous participation in knowledge sharing becomes a critical success factor.”
Location information disclosure in location-based social network services: Privacy calculus, benefit structure, and gender differences (2015, background): “As the web 2.0 technology relies heavily on the user-generated content, the survival and sustainability of LBSNS which is a special type of web 2.0 technology depends on users’ continuous content contribution (Chiu, Cheng, Huang, & Chen, 2013; Fang & Neufeld, 2009).”
Social Barriers Faced by Newcomers Placing Their First Contribution in Open Source Software Projects (2015, background): “Fang and Neufeld [19] qualitatively revealed that initial participation conditions do not effectively predict long-term participation, but that situated learning and identity-construction behaviors were positively linked to sustained participation.”
The sharing economy: Why people participate in collaborative consumption (2016, neutral): “Nevertheless, the initial motivation to collaborate does not explain nor predict sustained participation (Fang & Neufeld, 2009).”
Co-Creation: Toward a Taxonomy and an Integrated Research Perspective (2010, background): “Sustained participation in OSS projects has been found to be motivated by other factors than those that led the contributors to join; situated learning (acting knowledgeably and purposefully in the world) and identity construction within the community have been found to be the motivators of continui”
Work Practices and Challenges in Pull-Based Development: The Contributor's Perspective (2014, background): “Fang and Neufeld [16] find that continuous learning and identity building is what drives sustained, rather than ephemeral, contribution activity in OSS communities.”