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The emergence of governance in an open source community
by S. O'Mahony and F. Ferraro
Abstract
Little is known about how communities producing collective goods govern themselves. In a multimethod study of one open source software community, we found that members developed a shared basis of formal authority but limited it with democratic mechanisms that enabled experimentation with shifting conceptions of authority over time. When members settled on a shared conception of authority, it was more expansive than their original design. A statistical test of the predictors of leadership reinforced this finding. By blending bureaucratic and democratic mechanisms, the governance system evolved with the community's changing conceptions of authority. [AUTHORS ABSTRACT]
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O'Mahony, S., and Ferraro, F.: The emergence of governance in an open source community, The Academy of Management Journal ARCHIVE 50(5), 1079–1106, 2007
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@Article{ title = "The emergence of governance in an open source community", author = "S. {O'Mahony} and F. Ferraro", journal = "The Academy of Management Journal {ARCHIVE}", pages = "1079--1106", volume = "50", number = "5", year = "2007", issn = "00014273", doi = "10.5465/AMJ.2007.27169153", }
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