Governance strategies for open collaboration: Focusing on resource allocation in open source software development organizations

•Efficient OSS governance mechanism is proposed with respect to resource allocation.•Hierarchical structure of developers’ network is recommended for high performance.•Most of developers should focus on a small number of projects in OSSD organization.•OSSD organizational level analysis is conducted...

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Published in:International journal of information management 2017-10, Vol.37 (5), p.431-437
Main Authors: Lee, Saerom, Baek, Hyunmi, Jahng, Jungjoo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Collaboration
Communications technology
Developers
Information technology
Innovations
Open collaboration
Open source software
Organizations
OSS governance
Project management
Public domain
Resource allocation
Software development
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Summary:•Efficient OSS governance mechanism is proposed with respect to resource allocation.•Hierarchical structure of developers’ network is recommended for high performance.•Most of developers should focus on a small number of projects in OSSD organization.•OSSD organizational level analysis is conducted by using GitHub data. With rapid advancements in information and communication technology, open collaboration has become easier, thereby allowing people to participate through internet platform. Open source software is one of the representative examples of open collaboration. In this research, we examine the antecedents of innovation performance for open source software development organizations on Github (www.github.com), which is a leading web service for the open collaborations of developers. From the perspective of resource allocation, this study investigates effective governance strategies to allocate developers to multiple projects within an organization. Overall, we find that the organization with high performance have a small number of developers to participate in most projects and most developers to participate in a small number of projects.
ISSN:0268-4012
1873-4707
DOI:10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2017.05.006