How do firms influence open source software communities? A framework and empirical analysis of different governance modes

Schaarschmidt, Mario; Walsh, Gianfranco; Kortzfleisch, Harald F. O. von

doi:10.1016/j.infoandorg.2015.03.001

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“…Vaadin represented the middle ground, although they put even more weight on the developers' views regarding direction of development and maturity of the product. In align with Schaarsmidt et al [21], we find that these company-created projects seemed to maintain more control when compared to their community-driven counterparts.…”

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“…While origins of the project plays a role in how a hybrid community's governance model is built [21], licensing, technical architecture and development tools provide a framework in which the participation architecture of a community can be built [6]. Based on our study, we can provide some implications for the factors that can be used to affect the ways in which a host company can manage its boundaries in terms of accepting contributions from open communities.…”

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confidence: 91%

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Designing for Participation: Three Models for Developer Involvement in Hybrid OSS Projects

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Open Source Systems: Towards Robust Practices

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Abstract. This paper reports governance practices of three profit oriented companies that develop OSS software with the help of their respective open development communities. We explore how the companies allow development contributions from external stakeholders, and what knowledge they let out of their internal software development activities. The results lay ground for further research on how to organize openness of the software development process in hybrid setups where the needs of different stakeholders are partly competing -yet complementary.

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Designing for Participation: Three Models for Developer Involvement in Hybrid OSS Projects

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“…The engagement of companies has increased in the last years, as more and more firms have business models that rely on the kernel. Although companies cannot dictate what the community should do, they can in a way influence the trajectory of the project by assigning employed developers to the project [10,47]. As the results of our study for the LK project show, employed developers can take key positions in a community due to the intensity of the commitment, expressed by activity and importance, for the community.…”

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Private-Collective Innovation and Open Source Software: Longitudinal Insights from Linux Kernel Development

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While in early years, software technology companies such as IBM and Novell invested time and resources in open source software (OSS) development, today even user firms (e.g., Samsung) invest in OSS development. Thus, today's professional OSS projects receive contributions from hobbyists, universities, research centers, as well as software vendors and user firms. Theorists have referred to this kind of combined public and private investments in innovation creation as private-collective innovation. In particular, the private-collective innovation model seeks to explain why firms privately invest resources to create artifacts that share the characteristics of non-rivalry and non-excludability. The aim of this research is to investigate how different contributor groups associated with public and increasing private interests interact in an OSS development project. The results of the study show that the balance between private and collective contributors in the Linux kernel development seems to be changing to an open source project that is mostly developed jointly by private companies.

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“…Understanding the open source process can generate new perspectives on very old and essential problems of social coordination" [56:2]. As such, we outline the ASA model as a theoretical framework for the study of organization and open source community relations, contributing to the work on organizational participation in open innovation communities [26,44].…”

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Understanding Organization and Open Source Community Relations through the Attraction-Selection-Attrition Model

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How do firms influence open source software communities? A framework and empirical analysis of different governance modes

Cited by 50 publications

References 76 publications

Designing for Participation: Three Models for Developer Involvement in Hybrid OSS Projects

Designing for Participation: Three Models for Developer Involvement in Hybrid OSS Projects

Private-Collective Innovation and Open Source Software: Longitudinal Insights from Linux Kernel Development

Understanding Organization and Open Source Community Relations through the Attraction-Selection-Attrition Model

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