Organising the digital commons: a case study on engagement strategies in open source

Gençer, Mehmet; Oba, Beyza

doi:10.1080/09537325.2011.616698

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“…The practices of open innovation and co-production are inspired by the open-source movement (Gençer and Oba 2011), although they are also applied by established companies like Dell and Starbucks (Dong and Wu 2015). A third area of participation is open strategy making.…”

Section: Diagnosis: Enable Community and Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

New Media and Strategy Research: Towards a Relational Agency Approach

Gulbrandsen

Plesner

Raviola

2019

Int J Management Reviews

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A rapidly growing body of literature focuses on the relationship between new media and strategy, and offers recommendations regarding appropriate strategic actions in relation to new media. This paper systematically reviews 130 articles with a focus on the diagnoses they provide and the directions they offer strategists regarding the role of new media in strategy. The analysis identifies four main ways of conceptualizing new media in the literature: as forces in an increasingly turbulent strategic environment; as changing the role of strategists; as tools for strategically engaging stakeholders; and as both increasing and decreasing the control necessary for strategy making. These conceptualizations are based on often‐implicit assumptions about ‘agency’ in strategy: new media are seen either as forces influencing strategy or as tools in the hands of humans, who are portrayed as the agents of strategy. In both cases, new media are black‐boxed, such that their specific properties and ways of becoming embedded in particular contexts are rarely examined. After discussing these assumptions and a limited number of studies that challenge them, the paper develops an approach to strategy and new media based on a relational understanding of agency, an attention to technological affordances and a methodological sensitivity to tracing strategy‐making assemblages of human and non‐human elements. We argue that future research based on this approach will advance our knowledge of strategy making in ways that do not take new media for granted and ways that are attentive to different kinds of agency.

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Section: Diagnosis: Enable Community and Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

New Media and Strategy Research: Towards a Relational Agency Approach

Gulbrandsen

Plesner

Raviola

2019

Int J Management Reviews

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“…The points of attention for the managers of virtual communities are different from those of the managers of project teams, and in particular: Motivation is a key factor for the success of a CoP: people are motivated to actively participate when they see knowledge as a public good, a moral duty or as a common interest (Gençer and Oba, 2011). Some members can be motivated through tangible rewards (Ardichvili et al , 2003) used to foster participation and to improve the quality of proposed solutions, thanks to competition arising from the high number of participating members (Lee et al , 2015a, b).…”

Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Web-application development projects by online communities

Annarelli

Battistella

Nonino

2017

IMDS

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose an in-depth analysis of online communities of practice that support the innovative development of web applications. The analysis is aimed at understanding the preeminent characteristics of communities of practice that can favour the process of innovation (conceptualisation and realization of a web application) and if these characteristics differ in the diverse phases of a software development project (requirement specification, design, implementation and verification). Design/methodology/approach The authors adopted a multiple case study research design, selected 29 communities of practice related to the development of web applications and classified them recognizing the different practices that refer to the different phases of the innovation process of web-applications software development. Finally, the authors focussed on seven communities comparing five important dimensions for each one. Findings The results of the empirical analysis show that the best practices are different, considering the different phases of the project, and that these practices can be strategies directed at members to attract them and also, strategies directed at the community to permit collaboration. Originality/value The paper proposes an important and new insight into the management of virtual communities of practice (VCoP). The authors supposed that the ways to manage a VCoP could depend on project phases. In particular, the management practices of community should differ according to the different project phases, i.e. requirements specification, design, implementation and verification of the software. Literature in this sense presented only research focussed on the different effects of virtualness on teams depending on the length of team duration and on communication efforts.

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“…In time it ignites a new round of tensions. Several patterns are suggested by our previous study [3]. For example, in the case of GCC/EGCS fork, the fork was created due to differences in terms of stability and flexibility.…”

Section: A Model Of Divergencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…With the selection process, the situation is even more similar to biological evolution. In OSS projects, even when corporate actors are involved [3], a species' access to resources in the environment corresponds to user and developer interest attracted to an OSS project. An OSS software project develops and becomes more appealing to a larger user base as developers prefer to contribute to it (rather than another software), unlike a proprietary software whose development may depend on corporate investment.…”

Section: Software Evolution Vs Evolution In Software Ecosystemsmentioning

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Forking the Commons: Developmental Tensions and Evolutionary Patterns in Open Source Software

Gençer

Ozel

2012

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Abstract. Open source software (OSS) presents opportunities and challenges for developers to exploit its commons based licensing regime by creating specializations of a software technology to address plurality of goals and priorities. By 'forking' a new branch of development separate from the main project, development diverges into a path in order to relieve tensions related to specialization, which later encounters new tensions. In this study, we first classify forces and patterns within this divergence process. Such tensions may stem from a variety of sources including internal power conflicts, emergence of new environmental niches such as demand for specialized uses of same software, or differences along stability vs. development speed trade-off. We then present an evolutionary model which combines divergence options available to resolve tensions, and how further tensions emerge. In developing this model we attempt to define open software evolution at the level of systems of software, rather than at individual software project level.

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Organising the digital commons: a case study on engagement strategies in open source

Cited by 13 publications

References 21 publications

New Media and Strategy Research: Towards a Relational Agency Approach

New Media and Strategy Research: Towards a Relational Agency Approach

Web-application development projects by online communities

Forking the Commons: Developmental Tensions and Evolutionary Patterns in Open Source Software

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