All are not equal: An examination of the economic returns to different forms of participation in open source software communities

Information Systems Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 520-538

  Hann, Il Horn ^a   Roberts, Jeffrey A ^b   Slaughter, Sandra A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Job matching theory; Labor economics; Open source software; Signaling theory; Software industry

Indexed keywords

COMPENSATION (PERSONNEL); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ECONOMICS; OPEN SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; WAGES;

APACHE SOFTWARE FOUNDATIONS; INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS; INTRIGUING QUESTIONS; JOB MATCHING; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE COMMUNITY; PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY; SIGNALING THEORY; SOFTWARE INDUSTRY;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

EID: 84885122582     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.2013.0474     Document Type: Article

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