Layered Approach to Open Source Software Development Success

Layered Approach to Open Source Software Development Success

Open source has emerged as a widely accepted software development phenomenon which has tremendously brought about a significant paradigm shift from traditional software development methodologies such as top down design and stepwise refinement to an unconventional software development approach by means of collaborative software development method among a wide geographically dispersed interested ...

Network ties and the success of open source software development

Prior network-based research on open source software (OSS) development has focused on the benefit of network ties and assumed all network ties play the same role. We adopt a fine-grained view of network relations to investigate the impact of network ties on the success of OSS development. Through examining the development of OSS projects hosted by SourceForge, we find that co-membership among p...

An Integrative Theoretic Approach to Open Source Software Development

Critical Success Factors for Open-source Innovation: the Case of Open Source Software Development

With the advances in information technology (IT), open-source innovation (OSI) plays an increasingly important role for virtual teams to engage in online innovative activities .Based on the theory of knowledge creation, this study builds a theoretical framework to examine the critical success factors of OSI. It is argued that, to achieve OSI success, virtual teams need to go through an iterativ...

Open Source Software Development*

This article examines and reviews what is known so far about free/open source software development (FOSSD). FOSSD is not the same as software engineering as that is portrayed in common textbooks. Instead, it is a complementary approach to address the many challenges that arise in the development of complex software systems that are often built outside of a traditional corporate software develop...