The power of gifts: Organizing social relationships in open source communities

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 305-320

  Bergquist, Magnus ^a   Ljungberg, Jan ^a  

^a VIKTORIA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Gift culture; Open source; Peer review

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035642858     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2575.2001.00111.x     Document Type: Article

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