Paper Info
Title
Organising the digital commons: a case study on engagement strategies in open source.
Abstract
In this paper we develop a conceptual framework for understanding the co-evolution of a virtual community and a hybrid governance regime. The research site is the Eclipse software development community led by IBM and based on data collected from activities of community members, we examine the attempts of participants to construct and refine a hybrid governance structure while developing and expanding the community. Drawing on strategy-as-practice approach and institutional theory, we bring arguments at two instances of this co-evolution process: the initiation and enactment. For the initiation of the community we argue that, beyond market-driven considerations, tensions and polarisation in the existing proprietary regimes, governance structures, and philosophies promote new practices. For the establishment process we emphasise the role of member-driven horizontal and vertical structural adjustments, and the maintenance of open-source developer spirit.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1080/09537325.2011.616698
TECHNOLOGY ANALYSIS & STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
Keywords
Field
DocType
virtual community,governance,community evolution,open source
Corporate governance,Economics,IBM,Horizontal and vertical,Institutional theory,Knowledge management,Conceptual framework,Software development,Marketing,Digital Commons,Virtual community
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
23.0
SP9
0953-7325
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.56
9
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mehmet Gençer172.10
Beyza Oba271.63