Returns from social capital in open source software networks

Abstract

Knowledge, Networks, Social capital, Software industry, A14, L14, L86, O32, Z13,

Resources prospectively: How actors mobilize resources in business settings

“…Social capital is the subject of an extensive research literature (Portes, 1998). That part of it concerned with business activities tends to focus on the advantages to firms of fostering and nurturing social capital (Anderson, Park & Jack, 2007;Arregle, Hitt, Sirmon & Very, 2007;Butler & Purchase, 2008;Méndez-Durón & García, 2009;Nahapiet & Ghoshal, 1998;Westerlund & Svahn, 2008). Adler and Kwon (2002) begin their review of social capital by associating it with social relations, as distinct from market relations and hierarchical relations and show that actors can in part transform social capital into economic capital.…”

Trust and forms of capital in business-to-business activities and relationships

“…The dominant problematic has been of the relationship between organizations having social capital, or having the capacity to accumulate social capital, and that organization's relative economic performance (Mathwick et al, 2008;Méndez-Durón & Garciá, 2009). Researchers have cited Bourdieu's (1986, p. 51) definition of social capital (ibid., p. 51):…”

Fifty shades of innovation – from open toward user, and open collaborative forms of innovation – an overview

“…Knowledge transfer in open source development is explained by the role of social capital (Méndez-Durón -García, 2009).…”

“…istics (Van de Vrande et al, 2009;Chiaroni et al, 2011;Dahlander -Gann, 2010;Barge-Gil, 2010). Some have argued for understanding openness where all related information is a public good (Baldwin -von Hippel, 2011; and related literature on open source models (Lee -Cole 2003, Baldwin -Clark, 2006Dahlander et al, 2008;Harison -Koski, 2010, Méndez-Durón -García, 2009.…”