%0 Journal Article %J Information & Management %D 2009 %T Volunteers' involvement in online community based software development %A Bo Xu %A Donald R. Jones %A Bingjia Shao %K age %K developers %K effectiveness %K function points %K ideology %K leadership %K MOTIVATION %K scm %K sourceforge %K status %K Survey %K team size %K Volunteers %X We sought to gain understanding of voluntary developers' involvement in open source software (OSS) projects. Data were collected from voluntary developers working on open source projects. Our findings indicated that a voluntary developer's involvement was very important to his or her performance and that involvement was dependent on individual motivations (personal software needs, reputation and skills gaining expectation, enjoyment in open source coding) and project community factors (leadership effectiveness, interpersonal relationship, community ideology). Our work contributes theoretically and empirically to the body of OSS research and has practical implications for OSS project management. %B Information & Management %V 46 %P 151 - 158 %U http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VD0-4VP1CN0-1/2/8e1c7be4fcedd1419209c5c843ffa923 %R DOI: 10.1016/j.im.2008.12.005 %0 Journal Article %J MIS Quarterly %D 2006 %T The Impact of Ideology on Effectiveness in Open Source Software Development Teams %A Stewart, K. %A Gosain, S. %K bug fixing %K bug reports %K bug tracking %K communication %K COMMUNITY %K effectiveness %K feature requests %K ideology %K metadata %K sourceforge %K Survey %K team effort %K team size %K trust %X The emerging work on understanding open source software has argued for the importance of understanding what leads to effectiveness in OSS development teams and has pointed to the importance of ideology. This paper develops a framework of the OSS ideology (including specific norms, beliefs, and values) and a theoretical model to show how adherence to components of the ideology impact effectiveness in OSS teams. The model is based on the idea that ideology provides clan control, which is important in OSS development settings because OSS teams generally lack formal behavioral and outcome controls. The paper hypothesizes both direct effects of ideology on OSS team effectiveness and indirect effects via influences on affective trust, cognitive trust, and communication quality. Hypotheses are tested using survey and objective data on OSS projects. Four effectiveness measures are used to capture unique aspects of effectiveness in OSS including both the extent to which a team attracts input from the community and the team's success in accomplishing project outcomes. Results support the main thesis that OSS team members' adherence to the tenets of the OSS community ideology enhances OSS team effectiveness. The study uncovers several differences in the importance of OSS norms, beliefs, and values to different kinds of OSS team effectiveness and discusses implications for theory and practice. %B MIS Quarterly %V 30 %P 291-314 %8 2006 %G eng %> https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/stewartgosain2.pdf %0 Conference Proceedings %B International Conference on Information Systems 2001 %D 2001 %T An exploratory study of ideology and trust in open source development groups %A Katherine Stewart %A Gosain, S. %K contributors %K groups %K ideology %K license analysis %K licenses %K metadata %K open source %K sourceforge %K Survey %K team %K team size %K teams %K trust %K types %X Open source (OS) software development has been the subject of heightened interest among organizational scholars because of the novel social coordination practices that signal a departure from traditional proprietary software development. We propose that trust among group members in open source development groups (OSDGs) plays a key role in facilitating their success. Trust is important in this context because of the risk of opportunistic behavior by other members who volunteers may not have met and may never expect to meet, as well as a lack of explicit market contracts or common organizational affiliation. The open source community is differentiated by a coherent ideology that emphasizes a distinct set of interrelated norms, beliefs, and values. These serve to create incentives for open source practices that eschew conventional transactional norms in favor of a gift culture and a focus on reputations. In this study, we primarily examine the role of the shared ideology in enabling the development of affective and cognitive trust in OSDGs. We further examine how this trust leads to desired outcomes - group efficacy and effectiveness. The study is based on exploratory interviews, examination of archival records and a preliminary survey to understand the specific conditions of open source efforts on which this work-in-progress report is based. This is being followed-up by empirical testing of our research model through a survey of a broad variety of OSDGs. This study would contribute to a clarification of the role of trust in enabling software groups to work effectively and help to understand the bases of trust in ideology-permeated groups. %B International Conference on Information Systems 2001 %G eng %U http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.104.638&rep=rep1&type=pdf %R 10.1.1.104.638 %> https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/stewartGosain2001.pdf