Community, Joining, and Specialization in Open Source Software Innovation: A Case Study

By Georgvon Krogh, Sebastian Spaeth, Karim R. Lakhani. 2003

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Subfields: Communication, Computer Science Applications

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Carrots and Rainbows: Motivation and Social Practice in Open Source Software Development (2012, methodology): “…67 project administrators and SourceForge project data. von Hippel and von Krogh 2003 Conceptual article proposing the private-collective innovation model. von Krogh et al. 2003 Multi-source, grounded approach examining [un]successful joining and specialization process into www.freenetproject.org.”
Free revealing and the private-collective model for innovation incentives (2006, background): “In addition, individual benefits in open source software projects have been tied to participation in communities surrounding the projects as opposed to simple free riding (Raymond, 1999; Moon and Sproull, 2000; Wayner, 2000; O’ Mahoney, 2003; von Krogh et al., 2003).”
Influence of social and technical factors for evaluating contribution in GitHub (2014, background): “[17] found in their study of the contribution process in the Freenet open source project that there are "joining scripts" that successful newcomers follow before offering contributions.”
Under the radar: Industry entry by user entrepreneurs (2010, background): “Members of these communities bring their individual domain knowledge to bear on technical problems, share solutions, promote their work, and develop and improve on technology (Franke & Shah, 2003; von Krogh et al., 2003; Jeppesen & Molin, 2003).”
Exploring motivations for contributing to open source initiatives: The roles of contribution context and personal values (2008, background): “As noted above, the open source software development process involves an intensive peer-review mechanism, through which contributors receive feedback from peers in the project team, from software users, and from interested outsiders (von Krogh et al., 2003).”
Corporate wiki users: results of a survey (2006, background): “The open source research community [6,8,9] has generally argued that people contribute to open sites for both altruistic and personal benefits.”
Socialization in an Open Source Software Community: A Socio-Technical Analysis (2005, background): “Most importantly, it allows us to see how complex and nuanced socialization in an OSS project can be, extending earlier cross-sectional research (Von Krogh et al., 2003).”
The Impact of Ideology on Effectiveness in Open Source Software Development Teams (2006, background): “While commercial projects have employees paid and directed though formalized mechanisms, a critical step in becoming effective in an OSS project is to attract developers and motivate their input to the project (Mockus et al. 2002; Sturmer 2005; von Krogh et al. 2003).”
Exploring the Foundations of Cumulative Innovation: Implications for Organization Science (2007, background): “These contributions should enhance our ability to develop more generalizable theories of cumulative innovation.”
Women’s Participation in Open Source Software: A Survey of the Literature (2021, background): “There is attrition of women contributors as they move through the different stages of the “joining script” [115]—where people start outside the project as readers and passive users; then move to the project periphery as bug fixers, bug reporters, peripheral developers, and active developers”