Firm-Sponsored Developers in Open Source Software Projects: A Social Capital Perspective

✍ Scribed by Dirk Homscheid

• Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden;Springer Gabler
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 251
• Series: Innovation, Entrepreneurship und Digitalisierung
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This research aims at synthesizing literature on social capital theory and OSS communities to arrive at a conceptual model of social capital and individuals' value creation in OSS communities. Accordingly, it targets at replicating prior research that used social capital to predict diverse forms of outcome by using alternative operationalizations of the different social capital dimensions as well as forms of outcome and includes firm-sponsorship as moderator into the models. As a result of this research, it can be noted that the proven relationship between an OSS contributor's social capital and his created value is affected by firm-sponsorship. Furthermore, it could be shown that the proven relationship between an OSS contributor's social capital and associated individual outcomes is not affected by firm-sponsorship.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi
Introduction (Dirk Homscheid)....Pages 1-9
The Social Capital View (Dirk Homscheid)....Pages 11-52
Open Source Software and Firm Involvement (Dirk Homscheid)....Pages 53-81
The Linux Kernel Project (Dirk Homscheid)....Pages 83-91
Collection and Cleanup of Network and Source Code Data (Dirk Homscheid)....Pages 93-107
Study I: Private-Collective Innovation and Open Source Software: Longitudinal Insights from Linux Kernel Development (Dirk Homscheid)....Pages 109-126
Study II: The Social Capital Effect on Value Contribution—Revealing Differences between Voluntary and Firm-Sponsored Open Source Software Developers (Dirk Homscheid)....Pages 127-166
Study III: Social Capital and the Formation of Individual Characteristics—An Examination of Open Source Software Developers (Dirk Homscheid)....Pages 167-202
Summary, Conclusion and Outlook (Dirk Homscheid)....Pages 203-208
Back Matter ....Pages 209-236

✦ Subjects

Business and Management; IT in Business