Reputation management in an open source developer social network: An empirical study on determinants of positive evaluations

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 526-533

  Hu, Daning ^a   Zhao, J Leon ^b   Cheng, Jiesi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Open source software; Positive evaluation; Reputation management; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; HOMOPHILY; OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES; OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPERS; OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECTS; POSITIVE EVALUATION; RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT; REPUTATION MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER;

MOTIVATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 84862794851     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2012.02.005     Document Type: Article

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