TY - GEN
T1 - A social capital perspective of participant contribution in open source communities
T2 - 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-44 2010
AU - Chang, Ray M.
AU - Yang, Sung Byung
AU - Moon, Jae Yun
AU - Oh, Wonseok
AU - Pinsonneault, Alain
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Drawing upon a perspective of social capital, we investigate the extent to which several key dimensions of social capital accumulated during the growing stage of thread evolution influence both the quantitative and qualitative aspects of participant contribution in open source software development communities. To validate our hypotheses, we collected data from 223 Linux kernel threads, in which intensive intellectual and social interactions occur among the participants. The results suggest that the structural dimension of network capital (network centralization) is significantly associated with contribution quality, but not with contribution quantity. In contrast, the relational (network strength) and the dynamic (network growing speed) dimensions of network capital are significantly associated with contribution quantity, but not with contribution quality. The governance dimension (administrator participation) of network capital was found to be negatively significant on both the quality and quantity of contribution. Finally, no significant relationship was found between contribution quantity and contribution quality.
AB - Drawing upon a perspective of social capital, we investigate the extent to which several key dimensions of social capital accumulated during the growing stage of thread evolution influence both the quantitative and qualitative aspects of participant contribution in open source software development communities. To validate our hypotheses, we collected data from 223 Linux kernel threads, in which intensive intellectual and social interactions occur among the participants. The results suggest that the structural dimension of network capital (network centralization) is significantly associated with contribution quality, but not with contribution quantity. In contrast, the relational (network strength) and the dynamic (network growing speed) dimensions of network capital are significantly associated with contribution quantity, but not with contribution quality. The governance dimension (administrator participation) of network capital was found to be negatively significant on both the quality and quantity of contribution. Finally, no significant relationship was found between contribution quantity and contribution quality.
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U2 - 10.1109/HICSS.2011.30
DO - 10.1109/HICSS.2011.30
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79952903083
SN - 9780769542829
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
BT - Proceedings of the 44th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-44 2010
Y2 - 4 January 2011 through 7 January 2011
ER -