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Project leaders as boundary spanners in open source software development: A resource dependence perspective
Information Systems Journal ( IF 7.767 ) Pub Date : 2020-11-10 , DOI: 10.1111/isj.12313
John Qi Dong 1 , Sebastian Johannes Götz 2
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Digital social innovation is important for addressing various social needs, especially from those who are economically disadvantaged. For instance, open source software (OSS) is developed by mass collaboration on digital communities to provide software users free alternatives to commercial products. OSS is particularly valuable to meet the needs of numerous disadvantaged users for whom proprietary software is not affordable. While OSS projects are lack of formal organizational structure, project leaders play a significant role in initiating and managing these projects and eventually, influencing the degree to which the developed software is used and liked by users. Drawing on resource dependence theory, we investigate the impacts of two team-level characteristics of OSS project leaders (ie, size and tenure) on how well the developed software can address users' needs, with regard to the quantity of software being used by users and the quality of software to users' satisfaction. Further, from a resource dependence perspective, we examine the moderating role of project leaders' network ties in shaping the contingency of these effects. By using a large-scale dataset from 43 048 OSS development projects in SourceForge community, we find empirical evidence corroborating our theory. Taken together, our findings suggest the boundary-spanning role of project leaders in developing digital social innovation.

中文翻译:

项目负责人作为开源软件开发中的边界生成器:资源依赖视角

数字社会创新对于解决各种社会需求非常重要,尤其是来自经济弱势群体的需求。例如,开源软件 (OSS) 是通过数字社区的大规模协作开发的,旨在为软件用户提供商业产品的免费替代品。OSS 特别有价值,可以满足众多无法负担专有软件的弱势用户的需求。虽然 OSS 项目缺乏正式的组织结构,但项目负责人在启动和管理这些项目并最终影响开发的软件被用户使用和喜欢的程度方面发挥着重要作用。借鉴资源依赖理论,我们调查了 OSS 项目负责人的两个团队级别特征的影响(即,规模和使用期限)取决于开发的软件如何满足用户的需求,包括用户使用的软件数量和用户满意的软件质量。此外,从资源依赖的角度来看,我们研究了项目领导者的网络关系在塑造这些影响的偶然性方面的调节作用。通过使用 SourceForge 社区中 43 048 个 OSS 开发项目的大规模数据集,我们找到了证实我们理论的经验证据。综上所述,我们的研究结果表明,项目领导者在发展数字社会创新方面的跨界作用。我们研究了项目领导者的网络关系在塑造这些影响的偶然性方面的调节作用。通过使用 SourceForge 社区中 43 048 个 OSS 开发项目的大规模数据集,我们找到了证实我们理论的经验证据。综上所述,我们的研究结果表明,项目领导者在发展数字社会创新方面的跨界作用。我们研究了项目领导者的网络关系在塑造这些影响的偶然性方面的调节作用。通过使用 SourceForge 社区中 43 048 个 OSS 开发项目的大规模数据集,我们找到了证实我们理论的经验证据。综上所述,我们的研究结果表明,项目领导者在发展数字社会创新方面的跨界作用。
更新日期:2020-11-10
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