Graph drawing by force-directed placement
Software—Practice & Experience
Assessing the Validity of IS Success Models: An Empirical Testand Theoretical Analysis
Information Systems Research
Determinants of open source software project success: A longitudinal study
Decision Support Systems
Virtual organizational learning in open source software development projects
Information and Management
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Firm-oriented success factors of an open source software (OSS) product
Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Free/Libre/Open Source Software Research and Development
Journal of Systems and Software
Composition of scientific teams and publication productivity at a national science lab
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Reputation inflation detection in a Chinese C2C market
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Impact of Internal Open Source Development on Reuse: Participatory Reuse in Action
Journal of Management Information Systems
Developer Heterogeneity and Formation of Communication Networks in Open Source Software Projects
Journal of Management Information Systems
Information Quality in Wikipedia: The Effects of Group Composition and Task Conflict
Journal of Management Information Systems
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)
Factors affecting the success of Open Source Software
Journal of Systems and Software
A social capital perspective on meta-knowledge contribution and social computing
Decision Support Systems
Governance practices and software maintenance: A study of open source projects
Decision Support Systems
Strategies for software-based hybrid business models
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Predicting OSS Development Success: A Data Mining Approach
International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design
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
Information and Management
Network ties and the success of open source software development
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
An investigation of information sharing and seeking behaviors in online investment communities
Computers in Human Behavior
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The community-based model for software development in open source environments is becoming a viable alternative to traditional firm-based models. To better understand the workings of open source environments, we examine the effects of network embeddedness---or the nature of the relationship among projects and developers---on the success of open source projects. We find that considerable heterogeneity exists in the network embeddedness of open source projects and project managers. We use a visual representation of the affiliation network of projects and developers as well as a formal statistical analysis to demonstrate this heterogeneity and to investigate how these structures differ across projects and project managers. Our main results surround the effect of this differential network embeddedness on project success. We find that network embeddedness has strong and significant effects on both technical and commercial success, but that those effects are quite complex. We use latent class regression analysis to show that multiple regimes exist and that some of the effects of network embeddedness are positive under some regimes and negative under others. We use project age and number of page views to provide insights into the direction of the effect of network embeddedness on project success. Our findings show that different aspects of network embeddedness have powerful but subtle effects on project success and suggest that this is a rich environment for further study.