WHY DEVELOPERS PARTICIPATE IN OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECTS: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 821-830

  Hann, Il Horn ^a   Slaughter, Sandra A ^b   Roberts, Jeff ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

conjoint analysis; motivation; Open source software development

Indexed keywords

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURVEYS;

CONJOINT ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; FUNCTIONAL EXPLANATIONS; MOTIVATIONAL PROFILES; OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECTS; OPEN-SOURCE; OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; RELATIVE STRENGTH;

MOTIVATION;

EID: 85138692831     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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