Organizational Structure of “User Collaboration Community”: Insights from the Case of an Open Source Software Project

Current literatures on organization innovation do not investigate the innovation model which is composed of "network between individuals". Therefore, this study proposes the concept of the "User Collaboration Community", tries to understand this new phenomenon by conducting OSS project is the subject of this analysis, borrows the observation variables and propositions adopted by Mintzberg on structures of the innovative organization. This study further infers the conceptual framework and a series of hypothesis on the organizational structure of the user collaboration community. We expect that the proposition of this hypothesis will function as a concrete description and presentation of the innovation model of the "User Collaboration Community".