The role of social capital in open source software communities

Association for Information Systems - 11th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2005: A Conference on a Human Scale

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages 2888-2894

  Wang, Jijie ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Open source software; Social capital

Indexed keywords

INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE COMMUNITY; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECTS; SOCIAL CAPITALS; SOCIAL EXCHANGE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 84869999975     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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