Understanding the Motivations, Participation, and Performance of Open Source Software Developers: A Longitudinal Study of the Apache Projects

By Jeffrey A. Roberts, Il-Horn Hann, Sandra A. Slaughter. Management Sciences, 2006

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Social Barriers Faced by Newcomers Placing Their First Contribution in Open Source Software Projects (2015, background): “Several other studies dealt with motivation in OSS [4, 16, 40, 42, 48, 59, 65].”
"Popularity Effect" in User-Generated Content: Evidence from Online Product Reviews (2014, background): “For those active users, an important motivation is increasing popularity or obtaining higher status (Roberts et al., 2006).”
The Absence of Cooperation Is Not Necessarily Defection: Structural and Motivational Constraints of Knowledge Transfer in a Social Dilemma Situation (2009, background): “…of the social dilemma situation to the problems, we will see some correspondences in overcoming the social dilemma (Kollock and Smith 1996; Phelps and Mok 1999), especially the factors supporting internalized extrinsic motivation like status seeking (Roberts et al. 2006) and team size (Kuk 2006).”
Open Platform Strategies and Innovation: Granting Access vs. Devolving Control (2010, background): “Thus, in addition to rivalry and profit-seeking, open community processes can be shaped by norms, pro-social behavior , signaling and non-pecuniary interests (Boudreau and Lakhani 2009, Feller et al. 2005, Lerner and Tirole 2002, Roberts et al. 2006).”
The sharing economy: Why people participate in collaborative consumption (2016, positive): “In terms of intrinsic motivation, software developers contribute to open-source projects as a result of enjoyment and a feeling of competence (Lakhani & Wolf, 2005; Nov, 2007; Roberts et al., 2006; Wasko & Faraj, 2000; see also Ryan & Deci 2000).”
Task Design, Motivation, and Participation in Crowdsourcing Contests (2011, result): “, [9, 55]), it is consistent with Howe [35] and Terwiesch and Ulrich [64].”
Emergence of New Project Teams from Open Source Software Developer Networks: Impact of Prior Collaboration Ties (2008, background): “…of these issues is the question addressed in a growing body of literature that examines factors that motivate individuals to participate in OSSD (i.e., the creation of a public good) despite the lack of monetary compensation (e.g., Hars and Qu 2002, Lerner and Tirole 2002, Roberts et al. 2006).”
Carrots and Rainbows: Motivation and Social Practice in Open Source Software Development (2012, methodology): “Monetary incentives are, of course, compatible with OSS development (Roberts et al. 2006), but social practices can instill loyalty and lead to motivation for institutional changes that perhaps question the efficiency of such incentives.”
Extending private-collective innovation: a case study (2009, positive): “Empirical research on the private-collective innovation model is mainly found in the field of open source software development where the focus has been on individual contributors and projects (e.g., Shah, 2006; Baldwin and Clark, 2006; Roberts et al. 2006; Gambardella and Hall, 2006).”
Evaluation on crowdsourcing research: Current status and future direction (2012, background): “This will lead to some differences in motivations (e.g., intrinsic and extrinsic) (Bagozzi and Dholakia 2006; Hars and Ou 2002; Ke and Zhang, 2009, 2010; Lakhani and Wolf 2005; Roberts et al. 2006) and incentive mechanism.”
Influence of social and technical factors for evaluating contribution in GitHub (2014, background): “[25] found that open source developers are motivated by both intrinsic motivations such as intellectual stimulation, and extrinsic motivations such as improving skills.”
What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation (2010, neutral): “…movement appear to give away creative output " for free, " although it is not clear what exactly the underlying motives are and whether any nonpecuniary motives observed in open source also matter in R&D more generally (Lakhani and von Hippel 2003, Lerner and Tirole 2005, Roberts et al. 2006).”
The Next Generation of Research on IS Use: A Theoretical Framework of Delegation to and from Agentic IS Artifacts (2021, background): “Specifically, reputation 47 is the main currency for developers within the open source community (Roberts et al. 2006).”
Motivation in Software Engineering: A systematic literature review (2008, background): “…would also appear to be motivating tasks,. ‘Benefit’ is a category identified by Alstrum (2003) and is supported in the work of (Hertel et al. 2003; Roberts et al. 2004; Li et al. 2006), where the three different studies show Software Engineers are motivated by “creating something that will…”
Knowledge Collaboration in Online Communities (2011, background): “These motivating factors are often simultaneously present and interact with each other in complex ways (Roberts et al. 2006).”