Open, But How Much? Growth,Conflict, and Institutional Evolution in Open-Source Communities

Community, Economic Creativity, and Organization

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Mateos Garcia, Juan ^a   Steinmueller, W Edward ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community growth; Debian; Epistemic communities; Governance; Open source software; Practice; Social sustainability; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

EID: 56249149315     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199545490.003.0011     Document Type: Chapter

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