The organization of open source communities: Towards a framework to analyze the relationship between openness and reliability

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Van Wendel De Joode, Ruben ^a   De Bruijne, Mark ^a  

^a University of Technology   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES; OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES; ORGANIZATIONAL THEORIES; SMALL-SCALE OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES;

EID: 33749596562     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2006.477     Document Type: Conference Paper

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