Emergence of new project teams from open source software developer networks: Impact of prior collaboration ties

J Hahn, JY Moon, C Zhang - Information Systems Research, 2008 - pubsonline.informs.org
Recent years have witnessed a surge in self-organizing voluntary teams collaborating
online to produce goods and services. Motivated by this phenomenon, this research …

Impacts of license choice and organizational sponsorship on user interest and development activity in open source software projects

KJ Stewart, AP Ammeter… - Information Systems …, 2006 - pubsonline.informs.org
What differentiates successful from unsuccessful open source software projects? This paper
develops and tests a model of the impacts of license restrictiveness and organizational …

Network effects: The influence of structural capital on open source project success

PV Singh, Y Tan, V Mookerjee - Mis Quarterly, 2011 - JSTOR
What determines the success of open source projects? In this study, we investigate the
impact of network social capital on open source project success. We define network social …

Measuring open source software success

SYT Lee, HW Kim, S Gupta - Omega, 2009 - Elsevier
Since the mid-1990s, there has been a surge of interest among academics and practitioners
in open source software (OSS). While there is an abundance of literature on OSS, most …

Factors affecting the success of Open Source Software

V Midha, P Palvia - Journal of Systems and Software, 2012 - Elsevier
With the rapid rise in the use of Open Source Software (OSS) in all types of applications, it is
important to know which factors can lead to OSS success. OSS projects evolve and …

The Perils and Pitfalls of Mining SourceForge.

J Howison, K Crowston - MSR, 2004 - IET
SourceForge provides abundant accessible data from open source software development
projects, making it an attractive data source for software engineering research. However it is …

The small-world effect: The influence of macro-level properties of developer collaboration networks on open-source project success

PV Singh - ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
In this study we investigate the impact of community-level networks—relationships that exist
among developers in an OSS community—on the productivity of member developers …

How early participation determines long-term sustained activity in github projects?

W Xiao, H He, W Xu, Y Zhang, M Zhou - … of the 31st ACM Joint European …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Although the open source model bears many advantages in software development, open
source projects are always hard to sustain. Previous research on open source sustainability …

Resources contributing to gaining competitive advantage for open source software projects: An application of resource-based theory

AH Ghapanchi, C Wohlin, A Aurum - International Journal of Project …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Open Source Software (OSS) is an important asset in today's software-intensive
society. The success of OSS projects is highly dependent on a number of factors. These …

Defining and evaluating a measure of open source project survivability

U Raja, MJ Tretter - IEEE Transactions on Software …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we define and validate a new multidimensional measure of Open Source
Software (OSS) project survivability, called Project Viability. Project viability has three …