How microblogging networks affect project success of open source software development

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3178-3186

  Yang, Xuan ^a   Hu, Daning ^b   Robert, Davison M ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; LONGITUDINAL DATA; MICROBLOGGING; NETWORK MECHANISM; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; PREFERENTIAL ATTACHMENTS; PROJECT SUCCESS; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84875518402     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2013.251     Document Type: Conference Paper

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