@article {Sadowski2008323,
	title = {Transition of governance in a mature open software source community: Evidence from the Debian case},
	journal = {Information Economics and Policy},
	volume = {20},
	number = {4},
	year = {2008},
	note = {"We primarily used internal documents related to the contents and context of different Debian projects."
"Furthermore, we attended several Debian conferences and were {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}lurking around{\textquotedblright} on the Debian mailing lists, websites, IRC channels, etc."},
	pages = {323 - 332},
	abstract = {As open source software (OSS) communities mature, they have to introduce a variety of governance mechanisms to manage the participation of their members and to coordinate the launch of new releases. The Debian community introduced new mechanisms of informal administrative control based on a constitution, elected leaders, and used interactive communication channels. We show that these control mechanisms were introduced as a response to emerging innovative opportunities due to the usage of source packages and to the need to build a responsive organization within the Debian OSS community.},
	keywords = {debian, governance},
	issn = {0167-6245},
	doi = {DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2008.05.001},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V8J-4SHF4BS-1/2/579ba679ee43d7c77302f3595334dd24},
	author = {Bert M. Sadowski and Gaby Sadowski-Rasters and Geert Duysters}
}
