Firm-Sponsored Developers in Open Source Software Projects: A Social Capital Perspective

Firm-Sponsored Developers in Open Source Software Projects: A Social Capital Perspective
ISBN-10
3658314788
ISBN-13
9783658314781
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
236
Language
English
Published
2020-10-21
Publisher
Springer Nature
Author
Dirk Homscheid

Description

This research aims at synthesizing literature on social capital theory and OSS communities to arrive at a conceptual model of social capital and individuals' value creation in OSS communities. Accordingly, it targets at replicating prior research that used social capital to predict diverse forms of outcome by using alternative operationalizations of the different social capital dimensions as well as forms of outcome and includes firm-sponsorship as moderator into the models. As a result of this research, it can be noted that the proven relationship between an OSS contributor's social capital and his created value is affected by firm-sponsorship. Furthermore, it could be shown that the proven relationship between an OSS contributor's social capital and associated individual outcomes is not affected by firm-sponsorship.

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