The psychology of computer programming (silver anniversary ed.)
The psychology of computer programming (silver anniversary ed.)
Shared leadership in the Apache project
Communications of the ACM
Software Cost Estimation with Cocomo II with Cdrom
Software Cost Estimation with Cocomo II with Cdrom
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Motivation, Knowledge Transfer, and Organizational Forms
Organization Science
Corporate wiki users: results of a survey
Proceedings of the 2006 international symposium on Wikis
The open source software phenomenon: Characteristics that promote research
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Open source content contributors' response to free-riding: The effect of personality and context
Computers in Human Behavior
A Strategic Analysis of Competition Between Open Source and Proprietary Software
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Volunteers' involvement in online community based software development
Information and Management
International Journal of Web Based Communities
Exploring contributions of public resources in social bookmarking systems
Decision Support Systems
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Understanding Sustained Participation in Open Source Software Projects
Journal of Management Information Systems
Determinants of the Choice of Open Source Software License
Journal of Management Information Systems
Learning theory and the re-education of older software engineers
ACM SIGITE Research in IT
Herding the cats: the influence of groups in coordinating peer production
Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
Information Technology and Management
Should Economists Use Open Source Software for Doing Research?
Computational Economics
Factors affecting shapers of organizational wikis
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Analysis of participation in an online photo-sharing community: A multidimensional perspective
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation
Management Science
Computers in Human Behavior
Dusting for science: motivation and participation of digital citizen science volunteers
Proceedings of the 2011 iConference
Advances in Software Engineering - Special issue on new generation of software metrics
Firms as Incubators of Open-Source Software
Information Systems Research
Entering the circle of trust: developer initiation as committers in open-source projects
Proceedings of the 8th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories
Comment: where is the theory in wikis?
MIS Quarterly
Management Science
Knowledge Collaboration in Online Communities
Organization Science
Open source software licenses: Strong-copyleft, non-copyleft, or somewhere in between?
Decision Support Systems
Co-Creation: Toward a Taxonomy and an Integrated Research Perspective
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Task Design, Motivation, and Participation in Crowdsourcing Contests
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Developer Heterogeneity and Formation of Communication Networks in Open Source Software Projects
Journal of Management Information Systems
Influences on developer participation in the Debian software ecosystem
Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems
Competitive Strategy for Open Source Software
Marketing Science
A Hidden Markov Model of Developer Learning Dynamics in Open Source Software Projects
Information Systems Research
Free/Libre open-source software development: What we know and what we do not know
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Proceedings of the 2012 iConference
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
How Peripheral Developers Contribute to Open-Source Software Development
Information Systems Research
Understanding sustained participation in transactional virtual communities
Decision Support Systems
Links to the source - a multidimensional view of social ties for the retention of FLOSS developers
Proceedings of the 50th annual conference on Computers and People Research
Enabling Large-Scale Deliberation Using Attention-Mediation Metrics
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Information Systems Research
Leadership characteristics and developers' motivation in open source software development
Information and Management
The Cross-Purposes of Cross-Posting: Boundary Reshaping Behavior in Online Discussion Communities
Information Systems Research
"What's coming next?" Epistemic curiosity and lurking behavior in online communities
Computers in Human Behavior
Motivations for Open Source Project Participation and Decisions of Software Developers
Computational Economics
Predicting OSS Development Success: A Data Mining Approach
International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design
International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes
International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes
Incentives and integration in scientific software production
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Personality-targeted design: theory, experimental procedure, and preliminary results
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Toward an Enacted Approach to Understanding OSS Developer's Motivations
International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction
Sustaining Web 2.0 services: A survival analysis of a live crowd-casting service
Decision Support Systems
A Study of Open Source Software Development from Control Perspective
Journal of Database Management
Information Resources Management Journal
Developer Heterogeneity and Formation of Communication Networks in Open Source Software Projects
Journal of Management Information Systems
Network Positions and Contributions to Online Public Goods: The Case of Chinese Wikipedia
Journal of Management Information Systems
Theory and Analysis of Company-Sponsored Value Co-Creation
Journal of Management Information Systems
The attraction of contributors in free and open source software projects
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Why different motives matter in sustaining online contributions
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Linking Cyclicality and Product Quality
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
The public software ecosystem: exploratory survey
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems
An empirical study of information contribution to online feedback systems: A motivation perspective
Information and Management
Motivating participation in online innovation communities
International Journal of Web Based Communities
A mechanism for supporting collective innovation: the open contract-based challenge
Information Systems and e-Business Management
How to Encourage the Crowd? A Study about User Typologies and Motivations on Crowdsourcing Platforms
UCC '13 Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM 6th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing
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Understanding what motivates participation is a central theme in the research on open source software (OSS) development. Our study contributes by revealing how the different motivations of OSS developers are interrelated, how these motivations influence participation leading to performance, and how past performance influences subsequent motivations. Drawing on theories of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, we develop a theoretical model relating the motivations, participation, and performance of OSS developers. We evaluate our model using survey and archival data collected from a longitudinal field study of software developers in the Apache projects. Our results reveal several important findings. First, we find that developers' motivations are not independent but rather are related in complex ways. Being paid to contribute to Apache projects is positively related to developers' status motivations but negatively related to their use-value motivations. Perhaps surprisingly, we find no evidence of diminished intrinsic motivation in the presence of extrinsic motivations; rather, status motivations enhance intrinsic motivations. Second, we find that different motivations have an impact on participation in different ways. Developers' paid participation and status motivations lead to above-average contribution levels, but use-value motivations lead to below-average contribution levels, and intrinsic motivations do not significantly impact average contribution levels. Third, we find that developers' contribution levels positively impact their performance rankings. Finally, our results suggest that past-performance rankings enhance developers' subsequent status motivations.