The link between incentives and product performance in open source development: An empirical investigation

Global Business and Economics Review

Volumn 9, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 151-169

  Chakravarty, Sujoy ^a   Haruvy, Ernan ^b   Wu, Fang ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Altruism; Incentives; Open source software; Software performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250831547     PISSN: 10974954     EISSN: 17451329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/GBER.2007.013698     Document Type: Article

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