Grewal, Rajdeep; Lilien, Gary L.; Mallapragada, Girish - In: Management Science 52 (2006) 7, pp. 1043-1056
The community-based model for software development in open source environments is becoming a viable alternative to … traditional firm-based models. To better understand the workings of open source environments, we examine the effects of network … embeddedness--or the nature of the relationship among projects and developers--on the success of open source projects. We find that …