Coordinating Efforts in Virtual Communities: Examining Network Governance in Open Source

10th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 2695-2698

  Sagers, Glen W ^a   Wasko, Molly Mclure ^a   Dickey, Michael H ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

network governance; Open source software; virtual communities

Indexed keywords

OPEN SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COMMUNITY IS; COMPLEX SOFTWARE; NETWORK GOVERNANCES; OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE COMMUNITY; OPEN-SOURCE; OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARES; SOFTWARE PRODUCTS; THEORETICAL MODELING; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

EID: 84870311889     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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