Die Arbeit untersucht die Koordination und Kollaboration von Entwicklern in 29 Open Source Projekten empirisch. Dazu werden Analyseverfahren und standardisierte Messwerte aus der Sozialen Netzwerkanalyse angewendet, um Einflussfaktoren und Variablen zu identifizieren welche die Art und Weise der...

This paper develops an inductive theory of the open source software innovation process by focusing on the creation of Freenet, a project aimed at developing a decentralized and anonymous peer-to-peer electronic file sharing network. We are particularly interested in the strategies and processes...

A large, and purportedly increasing, number of research fields in modern science require scholars from more than one discipline to understand their puzzling phenomena. In response, many scholars argue that scientific work needs to become more interdisciplinary, and is indeed becoming so. This...