Firm-Sponsored Developers in Open Source Software Projects: A Social Capital Perspective

by Dirk Homscheid

This research aims at synthesizing literature on social capital theory and OSS communities to arrive at a conceptual model of social capital and individuals' value creation in OSS communities. Accordingly, it targets at replicating prior research that used social capital to predict diverse forms of outcome by using alternative operationalizations of the different social capital dimensions as well as forms of outcome and includes firm-sponsorship...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 365831477X
• ISBN13: 9783658314774
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Springer Gabler
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"