The emergence of governance in an open source community¶
O'Mahony, S., & Ferraro, F. (2007). The emergence of governance in an open source community. Academy of Management Journal, 50(5), 1079-1106.
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- Governance
- Legitimacy derives from technical merit and from the consent of the community (developers can fork the code if they disagree), a configuration O'Mahony and Ferraro (2007) describe as a blend of bureaucratic and democratic mechanisms emerging within open-source communities.
This sourceMultimethod study showing that an open-source community blends bureaucratic and democratic mechanisms—a shared basis of formal authority limited by democratic mechanisms—exactly the configuration the prime attributes to it.
- Legitimacy derives from technical merit and from the consent of the community (developers can fork the code if they disagree), a configuration O'Mahony and Ferraro (2007) describe as a blend of bureaucratic and democratic mechanisms emerging within open-source communities.
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