@article {1868, title = {Managing knowledge sharing in distributed innovation from the perspective of developers: empirical study of open source software projects in China}, journal = {Technology Analysis \& Strategic Management}, volume = {2929143029}, year = {2017}, month = {01/2017}, pages = {1 - 22}, abstract = {Knowledge sharing is the key factor that influences the performance of open source software (OSS) projects, which are the representative cases of distributed innovation. This paper aims to explore the mechanism of knowledge sharing in OSS projects from the perspective of developers in China. A quantitative method with the analysis of 403 valid questionnaires is adopted. A series of hypotheses about how distributed innovation (independent variables) influences knowledge sharing (mediating variable) and then affects the performance of OSS projects (dependent variable) are tested and approved. On the one side, we argue that developers will actively affect knowledge sharing in terms of participative motivation, social network and organisational culture. On the other hand, users may also affect the knowledge sharing when considering innovation willingness and capacity. It is interesting to find that social network is the most important factor in Chinese cases. It is strongly recommended to strengthen the collaboration between software companies and OSS communities.}, keywords = {Distributed innovation, knowledge sharing, performance of OSS projects, user innovation}, issn = {1465-3990}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09537325.2016.1194387}, author = {Chen, Xiaohong and Zhou, Yuan and Probert, David and Su, Jun} } @conference {647, title = {Release Management in Free Software Projects: Practices and Problems}, booktitle = {OSS2007: Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation (IFIP 2.13)}, series = {IFIP International Federation for Information Processing }, volume = {234/2007}, year = {2007}, month = {2007///}, pages = {295 - 300}, publisher = {Springer}, organization = {Springer}, chapter = {31}, abstract = {Release management plays an important role in every software project since it is concerned with the delivery of a high quality product to end-users. This paper explores release practices employed by volunteer free software projects and shows problems that occur. A challenge that has been identified is the difficulty of coordinating a distributed team of volunteers in order to align their work for a release. }, issn = {978-0-387-72485-0}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72486-7_31}, attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/Release\%20Management\%20in\%20Free\%20Software.pdf}, author = {Martin Michlmayr and Hunt, Francis and Probert, David} }