Understanding participation behavior and status attainment of open source software developers - A latent class growth modeling approach

PACIS 2009 - 13th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: IT Services in a Global Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Qureshi, Israr ^a   Fang, Yulin ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPLORATORY STUDIES; GROWTH MODELING; GROWTH TRAJECTORIES; LATENT CLASS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECTS; VOLUNTARY PARTICIPATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OPEN SYSTEMS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 84855679886     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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