The effects of extrinsic motivations and satisfaction in open source software development

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 784-808

  Ke, Weiling ^a   Zhang, Ping ^b  

^a CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Motivation; Open source software development; Satisfaction of needs; Task effort

Indexed keywords

MOTIVATION; OPEN SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

DIFFERENTIAL EFFECT; EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION; INTERACTION EFFECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL STATE; RESEARCH INTERESTS; SATISFACTION OF NEEDS; SELF-DETERMINATION THEORIES; TASK EFFORTS;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

EID: 78650376438     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00251     Document Type: Article

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