Location, location, location: How network embeddedness affects project success in open source systems

Management Science

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1043-1056

  Grewal, Rajdeep ^a   Lilien, Gary L ^a   Mallapragada, Girish ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affiliation network; Latent class analysis; Network embeddedness; Open source software

Indexed keywords

AFFILIATION NETWORK; LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS; NETWORK EMBEDDEDNESS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STATISTICAL METHODS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745632620     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1060.0550     Document Type: Article

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