Transition of governance in a mature open software source community: Evidence from the Debian case

Information Economics and Policy

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 323-332

  Sadowski, Bert M ^a   Sadowski Rasters, Gaby ^b   Duysters, Geert ^c  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Policy Research Division Municipality of Eindhoven   (Netherlands)

^c UNU MERIT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Debian; Governance; Open source software community

Indexed keywords

OPEN SYSTEMS;

ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROLS; CONTROL MECHANISMS; DEBIAN; GOVERNANCE; INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATIONS; NEW MECHANISMS; OPEN SOFTWARES; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE COMMUNITY; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 56249116939     PISSN: 01676245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2008.05.001     Document Type: Article

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