Volunteers' involvement in online community based software development

Authors:
Bo Xu;Donald R. Jones;Bingjia Shao
Affiliations:
School of Management, Fudan University, Shanghai, China;Rawls College of Business Administration, Texas Tech University, 79409-2101, USA;School of Economics and Business Administration, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
Venue:
Information and Management
Year:
2009

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Abstract

We sought to gain understanding of voluntary developers' involvement in open source software (OSS) projects. Data were collected from voluntary developers working on open source projects. Our findings indicated that a voluntary developer's involvement was very important to his or her performance and that involvement was dependent on individual motivations (personal software needs, reputation and skills gaining expectation, enjoyment in open source coding) and project community factors (leadership effectiveness, interpersonal relationship, community ideology). Our work contributes theoretically and empirically to the body of OSS research and has practical implications for OSS project management.