Working for free? Motivations of participating in open source projects

By Alexander Hars, Shaosong Ou. Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2001

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The sharing economy: Why people participate in collaborative consumption (2016, background): “Hars and Ou (2001) study both the intrinsic and extrinsic motivations of participation in open source development, and find that a strong extrinsic motivation is the potential future rewards, such as economic benefits.”
Customer engagement in a Facebook brand community (2012, background): “Customers may also seek social enhancement, which derives from the need to feel useful, recognized and needed in the community (Hars and Ou, 2002; Ho and Dempsey, 2010; Nambisan and Baron, 2010).”
Guarding the commons: how community managed software projects protect their work (2003, background): “Open source software is often characterized as a privately produced public good (Kollack, 1998, 1999; Lerner and Tirole, 2002a; Johnson, 2001; Bessen, 2001; Weber, 2000; Hars and Ou, 2000).”
In justice we trust: Exploring knowledge-sharing continuance intentions in virtual communities of practice (2010, background): “Hars and Ou (2002) found that altruism motivated hobby programmers to engage in open-source projects.”
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).”
Influence of social and technical factors for evaluating contribution in GitHub (2014, background): “Hars and Ou [13] performed a survey on the motivations of open source developers.”
Quality and productivity outcomes relating to continuous integration in GitHub (2015, background): “This applies even more strongly to open source software (OSS) projects where, in addition to the above issues, volunteers are involved, and there is also a lack of centralized control [10, 20, 21].”
Exploring motivations for contributing to open source initiatives: The roles of contribution context and personal values (2008, methodology): “In line with this, empirical research suggests that self-development is highly important for software contributors: 88% of the software-contributing respondents surveyed by Hars and Ou (2002) ranked human capital enhancement as high or very high – the highest percentage among the motivations studied”
What drives consumers to spread electronic word of mouth in online consumer-opinion platforms (2012, background): “When people identify themselves as part of the community and align their goals with those of the community, they will treat other members as their kin and they will be willing to do something beneficial to/for others that are not necessarily beneficial [26].”
A Survey of Research on Cloud Robotics and Automation (2015, neutral): “The success of open source software [41] [70] [121] is now widely accepted in the robotics and automation community.”
Leveraging Crowdsourcing: Activation-Supporting Components for IT-Based Ideas Competition (2009, background): “Several authors revealed motives that explain motivation of participants in open source projects [15, 17, 23, 24, 26].”
Crowdsourcing as a Model for Problem Solving (2008, background): “…of Linux is perhaps some recognition among other hobbyists, but, more importantly, the pursuit of the problem and the satisfaction in finding a better solution to the problem is payment enough (Ghosh, 1998; Hars and Ou, 2002; Hertel et al., 2003; Bonaccorsi and Rossi, 2004; Lakhani and Wolf, 2005).”
Striking a balance between trust and control in a virtual organization: a content analysis of open source software case studies (2001, background): “…in nature (Malone & Laubacher, 1998; Cook, 2001); (3) they examined the psychological motivations of individuals who contributed to OSS projects (Hars & Ou, 2001), without addressing the coordination processes that developers and project leaders employed; or (4) they were ‘case studies’ of the…”
MOVING THE CROWD AT THREADLESS (2010, background): “Several studies on motivation in open source participation (Hars & Ou 2002; Hertel et al. 2003; Bonaccorsi & Rossi 2004) support what open source pioneer and founder of Linux, Linus Torvalds, predicted would be the primary motivator: the pleasure found in doing hobbies.”