Production of Collective Action in Alliance-Based Interorganizational Communication and Information Systems

Monge, Peter R.; Fulk, Janet; Kalman, Michael; Flanagin, Andrew J.; Parnassa, Claire; Rumsey, Suzanne K.

doi:10.1287/orsc.9.3.411

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“…The collective action model operates in science and elsewhere (e.g. Aldrich, 1999;Monge, Fulk, Kalman, Flanagin, Parnassa, and Rumsey, 1998;McCaffrey, Faerman, and Hart, 1995;Coleman, 1973;Eyerman and Jamison, 1991;Hess, 1998;Melucci, 1999). It requires that contributors relinquish control of knowledge they have developed for a project and make it a public good by unconditionally supplying it to a "common pool".…”

Section: Open Source Software Development Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Open Source Software and the “Private-Collective” Innovation Model: Issues for Organization Science

Hippel

Krogh

2003

Organization Science

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Currently, two models of innovation are prevalent in organization science. The “private investment” model assumes returns to the innovator result from private goods and efficient regimes of intellectual property protection. The “collective action” model assumes that under conditions of market failure, innovators collaborate in order to produce a public good. The phenomenon of open source software development shows that users program to solve their own as well as shared technical problems, and freely reveal their innovations without appropriating private returns from selling the software. In this paper, we propose that open source software development is an exemplar of a compound “private-collective” model of innovation that contains elements of both the private investment and the collective action models and can offer society the “best of both worlds” under many conditions. We describe a new set of research questions this model raises for scholars in organization science. We offer some details regarding the types of data available for open source projects in order to ease access for researchers who are unfamiliar with these, and also offer some advice on conducting empirical studies on open source software development processes.

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Section: Open Source Software Development Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Open Source Software and the “Private-Collective” Innovation Model: Issues for Organization Science

Hippel

Krogh

2003

Organization Science

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“…Through choices that developers make for their participation and contribution to a FOSSD project, they find that there are like-minded individuals who also choose to participate and contribute to a project. These software developers find and connect with each other through FOSSD Web sites and online discourse (e.g., threaded discussions on bulletin boards) [45], and they find they share many technical competencies, values, and beliefs in common [7,18,20]. This manifests itself in the emergence of an alliance of collaborating FOSSD projects that share either common interests or development methods in projects that adopt a given FOSS system for subsequent application development, or in a occupational network of FOSS developers [18].…”

Section: Alliance Formation Inter-project Social Networking and Commmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collaboration Practices and Affordances in Free/Open Source Software Development

Scacchi

2010

Collaborative Software Engineering

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Abstract. This chapter examines collaborative work practices, development processes, project and community dynamics, and other socio-technical relationships in free and open source software development (FOSSD). It also describes what kinds of collaboration affordances facilitate collaborative work in FOSSD projects. It reviews a set of empirical studies of FOSSD that articulate different levels of analysis. Finally, there is discussion of limitations and constraints in understanding what collaboration practices and affordances arise in FOSSD studies and how they work, and then to emerging opportunities for future FOSSD studies.

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“…Through choices that developers make for their participation and contribution to an F/OSSD project, they find that there are likeminded individuals who also choose to participate and contribute to a project. These software developers find and connect with each other through F/OSSD Web sites and online discourse (e.g., threaded email discussions) [Monge 1998], and they find they share many technical competencies, values, and beliefs in common [Crowston 2002, Espinosa 2002, Elliott 2004. This manifests itself in the emergence of an occupational community of F/OSS developers [Elliott 2003].…”

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Socio-Technical Interaction Networks in Free/Open Source Software Development Processes

Scacchi

International Series in Software Engineering

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This chapter explores patterns of social and technological interaction that emerge in free/open source software development (F/OSSD) projects found in different research and development communities. F/OSSD is a relatively new way for building and deploying large software systems on a global basis, and differs in many interesting ways from the principles and practices traditionally advocated for software engineering. Hundreds of F/OSS systems are now in use by thousands to millions of end-users, and some of these F/OSS systems entail hundreds-of-thousands to millions of lines of source code. So what's going on here, and how are F/OSSD processes that are being used to build and sustain these projects different?One of the more significant features of F/OSSD is the formation and enactment of complex software development processes performed by loosely coordinated software developers and contributors. These people may volunteer their time and skill to such effort, and may only work at their personal discretion rather than as assigned and scheduled. Further, these developers generally provide their own computing resources, and bring their own software development tools with them. Similarly, F/OSS developers work on software projects that do not typically have a corporate owner or management staff to organize, direct, monitor, and improve the software development processes being put into practice on such projects. But how are successful F/OSSD projects and software development processes possible without regularly employed and scheduled software development staff, or without an explicit regime for software engineering project management? Why will software developers participate in F/OSSD projects? Why and how are large F/OSSD projects sustained? How are large F/OSSD projects coordinated, controlled or managed without a traditional project management team? Why and how might these answers to these questions change over time? These are the core research questions that will be addressed in this chapter.Socio-technical interaction networks (STINs) are an emerging conceptual framework for identifying, organizing, and comparatively analyzing patterns of social interaction, system development, and the configuration of components that constitute an information 2 system [Kling 2003]. STINs provide a scheme for examining the networks of people who work together through interrelated social and technical processes that arise to create the complex information systems and products that collectively constitute ongoing F/OSSD projects.STINs may be seen as the conceptual outgrowth of what historically was called, "sociotechnical systems" (STS) [Scacchi 2004c]. An STS perspective envisions a world of complex organizations that routinely employ technicians/engineers to develop systems for users, where success in developing a system depends on the participation and sustained involvement of the system's users. If people issues in the design, deployment, and evolution of these STS are slighted or ignored, then these systems would be problemati...

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Production of Collective Action in Alliance-Based Interorganizational Communication and Information Systems

Cited by 194 publications

References 57 publications

Open Source Software and the “Private-Collective” Innovation Model: Issues for Organization Science

Open Source Software and the “Private-Collective” Innovation Model: Issues for Organization Science

Collaboration Practices and Affordances in Free/Open Source Software Development

Socio-Technical Interaction Networks in Free/Open Source Software Development Processes

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