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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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 * Review: http://www.techforce.com.br/news/linux_blog/scientific_study_about_debian_governance_and_organization

 DOI:: http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/AMJ.2007.27169153

== Citation ==

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

=== BIBTeX ===

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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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