The Emergence of Governance in an Open Source Community

By Siobhan O’Mahony, J. Sheridan, Vikram Vijayaraghavan, D. Berch, Mariano Belinky, J. Colomer, Claire Flaherty, Alyssa Razook, Steve Barley, Beth A. Bechky and 8 more. 2007

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Carrots and Rainbows: Motivation and Social Practice in Open Source Software Development (2012, background): “However, the opposite causal direction has not been investigated although it is known that OSS developers set up governance structure (O’Mahony and Ferraro, 2007).”
Resurrecting Organization by Going Beyond Organizations (2016, background): “For example, over the last decades new forms of networks have emerged such as hacker collectives (Dobusch & Schoeneborn, 2015), online communities (O'Mahony & Ferraro, 2007), or terrorist networks (Schoeneborn & Scherer, 2012) which are partially organized.”
Rotating Leadership and Collaborative Innovation (2011, background): “…these collaborations allow partners to reap the benefits of both an open innovation approach that utilizes new external resources (Chesbrough, 2003; O’Mahony and Ferraro, 2007) and a closed innovation approach that ensures some proprietary protection of innovations through the use of contracts…”
The Role of Analogy in the Institutionalization of Sustainability Reporting (2010, background): “Perhaps, like CERES and the GRI, a successful institutional entrepreneur must relinquish centralized control over its institution - steering and guiding the institution as it develops, but not imposing a definitive design (O´Mahony and Ferraro, 2007; Garud et al, 2008).”
Leaders, followers, and time (2008, background): “In a similar vein, O'Mahony & Ferraro (2007) found that leadership behaviors in an open-source community changed over time and became more organization-building over technically oriented in content.”
The Role of Participation Architecture in Growing Sponsored Open Source Communities (2008, background): “Often, an open source community will create an informal or formal social structure to manage membership and joining (von Krogh et al., 2003; O’Mahony and Ferraro, 2007), but little has been done to understand how these projects are governed (see Shah, 2006; Markus, 2007; O’Mahony, 2007 for recent ex”
Reflections on the 2013 Decade Award—“Exploitation, Exploration, and Process Management: The Productivity Dilemma Revisited” Ten Years Later (2015, background): “These self-organized communities develop their own emergent social structure (e.g., Fleming & Waguespack, 2007; O’Mahony & Ferraro, 2007).”
Adaptation, bridging and firm upgrading: How non-market institutions and MNCs facilitate knowledge recombination in emerging markets (2014, background): “The combination of qualitative and quantitative the analyses, in turn, reveals less a definitive theory of upgrading and more a plausible explanation about how institutional resources can improve firm access to a variety of applied knowledge (O’Mahony & Ferraro, 2007; Uzzi, 1996).”
Algorithms at Work: The New Contested Terrain of Control (2020, background): “…work processes but that these controls reflected shared community values and were therefore experienced differently than by workers on corporate platforms that mostly reflected employer interests (Benkler, 2017; Fayard et al., 2016; Geiger, 2017; Karunakaran, 2018; O ’ Mahony & Ferraro, 2007).”
Motivations to participate in online communities (2010, background): “Others [14, 20] have additionally looked at these motivations in open source software development communities and found that users had varied motivations for participation.”
Open is Not Enough. Let's Take the Next Step: An Integrated, Community-Driven Computing Platform for Neuroscience (2012, background): “Debian is a well established self-governing project (O’Mahony and Ferraro, 2007) and is not controlled by any external entity that might impose a marketing strategy or decide what software ought to be eligible for inclusion into the system.”