Beyond Communitarian Cause : Resource Competition and Inter-Project Performance Variation in Open Source Movements

• 영문명: Beyond Communitarian Cause : Resource Competition and Inter-Project Performance Variation in Open Source Movements
• 발행기관: 한국인사조직학회
• 저자명: 신동엽(Dongyoub Shin) 이상묵(Sangmook Yi) 정의교
• 간행물 정보: 『한국인사조직학회 발표논문집』한국인사ㆍ조직학회 2006년도 추계학술연구발표회 발표논문집, 69~99쪽, 전체 31쪽
• 주제분류: 경제경영 > 경영학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2006.11.30

영문 초록

  This study examines the sources of variation in the mobilization of participants in open source projects. In open source movements (OSM), programmers around the world voluntarily contribute their technological competencies to the collaborative development of free software without explicit expectation of economic return. To explain inter-project variation in the mobilization of participants, the current study focuses on the dynamics of resource competition in OSM projects, each requiring the scarce resources of technological competencies possessed by programmers. Based on the presumption that the performance of each project will be determined by the degree to which its technological niche is advantageous in resource attraction, the current study identifies three key dimensions of niches ？ resource popularity, resource standardization, and resource co-attachment ？ and tests their effects on the mobilization of participants. The results of the empirical analyses provide strong support for our framework. While resource popularity turned out to have an inverted U-shape relationship with the mobilization of participants, resource standardization was found to have a positive effect. On the other hand, resource co-attachment, the extent to which different technologies are attached to the same programmers, turned out to have a negative effect on the dependent variable.

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키워드

Open Source Movement Resource Popularity Resource Standardization Resource Co-attachment Resource Competition Technological Niches