On the Job Learning in the Software Industry: Corporate Culture and the Acquisition of Knowledge
On the Job Learning in the Software Industry: Corporate Culture and the Acquisition of Knowledge
Two case studies of open source software development: Apache and Mozilla
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Recombinant Uncertainty in Technological Search
Management Science
A Topological Analysis of the Open Souce Software Development Community
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 07
The Success of Open Source
HICSS '06 Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 08
Learning from Experience in Software Development: A Multilevel Analysis
Management Science
Code Reuse in Open Source Software
Management Science
Brokerage, Boundary Spanning, and Leadership in Open Innovation Communities
Organization Science
Small Worlds and Regional Innovation
Organization Science
Network analysis of OSS evolution: an empirical study on ArgoUML project
Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution and the 7th annual ERCIM Workshop on Software Evolution
Information Systems Research
Developer Heterogeneity and Formation of Communication Networks in Open Source Software Projects
Journal of Management Information Systems
A Hidden Markov Model of Developer Learning Dynamics in Open Source Software Projects
Information Systems Research
A genetic search of patterns of behaviour in OSS communities
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Developer Heterogeneity and Formation of Communication Networks in Open Source Software Projects
Journal of Management Information Systems
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In this study we investigate the impact of community-level networks—relationships that exist among developers in an OSS community—on the productivity of member developers. Specifically, we argue that OSS community networks characterized by small-world properties would positively influence the productivity of the member developers by providing them with speedy and reliable access to more quantity and variety of information and knowledge resources. Specific hypotheses are developed and tested using longitudinal data on a large panel of 4,279 projects from 15 different OSS communities hosted at Sourceforge. Our results suggest that significant variation exists in small-world properties of OSS communities at Sourceforge. After accounting for project, foundry, and time-specific observed and unobserved effects, we found a statistically significant relationship between small-world properties of a community and the technical and commercial success of the software produced by its members. In contrast to the findings of prior research, we also found the lack of a significant relationship between closeness and betweenness centralities of the project teams and their success. These results were robust to a number of controls and model specifications.