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The governance of free/open source software projects: monolithic, multidimensional, or configurational?

verfasst von: M. Lynne Markus

Erschienen in: Journal of Management and Governance | Ausgabe 2/2007

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This paper presents the results of a qualitative review and synthesis of the literature on open source governance, addressing four key questions: (1) How has open source software (OSS) governance been defined? (2) Has the phenomenon of OSS governance been conceptualized as a monolithic or multidimensional phenomenon? (3) What purposes is OSS governance hypothesized to serve? and (4) What are the dimensions of OSS governance, and how are these dimensions related to each other? The results of the review suggest a framework for future comparative and case study research on OSS governance, and they provide a basis for comparison with research on the governance of other distributed, community-based forms of content and creation.

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Titel: The governance of free/open source software projects: monolithic, multidimensional, or configurational?
verfasst von: M. Lynne Markus
Publikationsdatum: 01.05.2007
Verlag: Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
Erschienen in: Journal of Management and Governance / Ausgabe 2/2007
Print ISSN: 1385-3457
Elektronische ISSN: 1572-963X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10997-007-9021-x

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