Volunteers’ Participation in Open Source Software Development: A Study from the Social-Relational Perspective

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 69-84

  Xu, Bo ^a   Jones, Donald R ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Open source software; participation; project management; social relationship

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006836101     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1851175.1851180     Document Type: Article

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