Hackers: heroes of the computer revolution
Hackers: heroes of the computer revolution
Educating computer scientists: linking the social and the technical
Communications of the ACM
Rebel code: Linux and the open source revolution
Rebel code: Linux and the open source revolution
Understanding open source software development
Understanding open source software development
Software Quality: Theory and Management
Software Quality: Theory and Management
Microsoft Secrets: How the World's Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People
The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age
The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age
Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering
Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering
Toward an understanding of the motivation Open Source Software developers
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering
Framework for Governance in Open Source Communities
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 07
Contrasting Community Building in Sponsored and Community Founded Open Source Projects
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 07
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on Computer personnel research: The global information technology workforce
Information and Management
An empirical analysis of open source software developers' motivations and continuance intentions
Information and Management
The Promise of Research on Open Source Software
Management Science
Achieving Quality in Open Source Software
IEEE Software
Working for Free? Motivations for Participating in Open-Source Projects
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Volunteers' involvement in online community based software development
Information and Management
The Cultural Construction of Organizational Life: Introduction to the Special Issue
Organization Science
Rituals in information system design
MIS Quarterly
Theorizing Practice and Practicing Theory
Organization Science
How does social software change knowledge management? Toward a strategic research agenda
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
"What's coming next?" Epistemic curiosity and lurking behavior in online communities
Computers in Human Behavior
ASONAM '12 Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2012)
Developing a game in the context of an open source community
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Information Systems and Design of Communication
API documentation and software community values: a survey of open-source API documentation
Proceedings of the 31st ACM international conference on Design of communication
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Open source software (OSS) is a social and economic phenomenon that raises fundamental questions about the motivations of contributors to information systems development. Some developers are unpaid volunteers who seek to solve their own technical problems, while others create OSS as part of their employment contract. For the past 10 years, a substantial amount of academic work has theorized about and empirically examined developer motivations. We review this work and suggest considering motivation in terms of the values of the social practice in which developers participate. Based on the social philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre, we construct a theoretical framework that expands our assumptions about individual motivation to include the idea of a long-term, value-informed quest beyond short-term rewards. This motivation-practice framework depicts how the social practice and its supporting institutions mediate between individual motivation and outcome. The framework contains three theoretical conjectures that seek to explain how collectively elaborated standards of excellence prompt developers to produce high-quality software, change institutions, and sustain OSS development. From the framework, we derive six concrete propositions and suggest a new research agenda on motivation in OSS.