Artifacts, actors, and interactions in the cross-project coordination practices of open-source communities

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 838-867

  Chua, Cecil Eng Huang ^a   Yeow, Adrian Yong Kwang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cross project coordination; Materiality; Open source; Ordering systems

Indexed keywords

OPEN SYSTEMS;

CASE ANALYSIS; FLOSS PROJECTS; MATERIALITY; MULTIPLE PROJECTS; OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES; OPEN SOURCES; ORDER SYSTEMS; PROJECT COORDINATION;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

EID: 79952935632     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00249     Document Type: Article

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