@article {flosswp1604,
	title = {Motivating job design as a factor in open source governance},
	journal = {J Manage Governance},
	volume = {11},
	number = {2},
	year = {2007},
	month = {May},
	pages = {129{\textendash}137},
	publisher = {Springer Science+Business Media},
	abstract = {Successful open source software (OSS) projects can be considered as examples of how ambitious work results can be achieved in web-based collaboration even when monetary incentives are low or absent. While former explorations of motivational processes in OSS projects primarily focused on person-oriented aspects such as motives, interests, and expected benefits of contributors, job-related factors have been largely neglected. After discussing the limitations of a personoriented focus, a research perspective is suggested that concentrates on job design and work context in OSS based on frameworks from work psychology. A theoretical analysis is presented discussing job characteristics of successful OSS projects as potential explanations of the high motivation of OSS contributors. Compared to a person-oriented perspective, the results of a job-oriented approach might be better transferable to other projects (both OSS and ??closed source?? software development) and provide guidelines for the governance of successful web-based collaboration.},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/fulltext.pdf},
	author = {Guido Hertel}
}
