Eckert, Remo (8 June 2018). How Can Open Source Software Projects Be Compared with Organizations? In: OSS 2018: Open Source Systems: Enterprise Software and Solutions 525 (pp. 3-14). Springer 10.1007/978-3-319-92375-8_1
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)The existence of a community plays a central role in the development of Open Source Software (OSS). Communities are commonly defined as a group of people sharing common norms or values. The common interest of an OSS project is obvious: to develop software under an OSS license. When we look at the rather general definition of a community, we see that there is a similarity to the term ‘organization’. This paper draws parallels between OSS projects and the general elements of an organization and shows the different elements comprised in an OSS community: people, organization and assets. Each of those elements is enriched with examples from different research in the corresponding OSS research stream and provides a broad overview of the elements of OSS projects. With the help of this comparison, research on OSS can be made more focused and aligned with organizational research.
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Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Department of Business Management > Institute of Information Systems > Information Management 03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Department of Business Management > Institute of Information Systems |
UniBE Contributor: |
Eckert, Remo |
Subjects: |
000 Computer science, knowledge & systems 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 330 Economics |
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Springer |
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English |
Submitter: |
Remo Eckert |
Date Deposited: |
12 Jun 2018 15:12 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:14 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-319-92375-8_1 |
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https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/117156 |
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