Volunteers' involvement in online community based software development

Information and Management

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 151-158

  Xu, Bo ^a   Jones, Donald R ^b   Shao, Bingjia ^c  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Involvement; Motivation; Online community; Open source software; Software development performance; Volunteers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MOTIVATION; OPEN SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

INVOLVEMENT; ONLINE COMMUNITY; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PERFORMANCE; VOLUNTEERS;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 62849091726     PISSN: 03787206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.im.2008.12.005     Document Type: Article

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