Information and Management
The impact of e-mail on the evolution of a virtual community during a strike
Information and Management
Information Systems Research
Open courseware and open source software
Communications of the ACM - Why CS students need math
Social support and leaving intention among computer professionals
Information and Management
Team structure and team performance in IS development: a social network perspective
Information and Management
Something for nothing: management rejection of open source software in Australia's top firms
Information and Management
Open source content contributors' response to free-riding: The effect of personality and context
Computers in Human Behavior
Social network, social trust and shared goals in organizational knowledge sharing
Information and Management
Virtual organizational learning in open source software development projects
Information and Management
Volunteers' involvement in online community based software development
Information and Management
Social relationship and its role in knowledge management systems usage
Information and Management
A social network based study of software team dynamics
Proceedings of the 3rd India software engineering conference
Governing the data commons: Policy, practice, and the advancement of science
Information and Management
Understanding Web 2.0 service models: A knowledge-creating perspective
Information and Management
A genetic search of patterns of behaviour in OSS communities
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes
Case studies in research: Is social capital effective for online learning?
Information and Management
Social Capital in Management Information Systems Literature
Journal of Information Technology Research
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As the open source movement grows, it becomes important to understand the dynamics that affect the motivation of participants who contribute their time freely to such projects. One important motivation that has been identified is the desire for formal recognition in the open source community. We investigated the impact of social capital in participants' social networks on their recognition-based performance; i.e., the formal status they are accorded in the community. We used a sample of 465 active participants in the Wikipedia open content encyclopedia community to investigate the effects of two types of social capital and found that network closure, measured by direct and indirect ties, had a significant positive effect on increasing participants' recognition-based performance. Structural holes had mixed effects on participants' status, but were generally a source of social capital.