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The periphery on stage: The intra-organizational dynamics in online communities of creation
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AI tools can lower the barrier for peripheral contributors to contribute to OSS projects.
“On the one hand, AI tools can lower the barrier for peripheral contributors (relatively newer contributors to the project who come from the community of users of software; Rullani and Haefliger 2013) to contribute to these software projects.”
From AI-Assisted Programming Decreases the Productivity of Experienced Developers by Increasing the Technical Debt and Maintenance Burden (2025) · cites this paper as Rullani and Haefliger 2013
Core contributors are typically responsible for code integration and maintenance, while peripheral contributors contribute less frequently and are more likely to focus on feature additions.
“core contributors, who are typically responsible for code integration and maintenance, and peripheral contributors, who contribute less frequently and are more likely to focus on feature additions.”
From AI-Assisted Programming Decreases the Productivity of Experienced Developers by Increasing the Technical Debt and Maintenance Burden (2025) · cites this paper as Rullani and Haefliger 2013
Past commit contributions during the pretreatment period serve as a proxy for contributor experience and project embeddedness.
“we classify contributors based on their level of past commit contributions during the pretreatment period, which serves as a proxy for experience and project embeddedness.”
From AI-Assisted Programming Decreases the Productivity of Experienced Developers by Increasing the Technical Debt and Maintenance Burden (2025) · cites this paper as Rullani and Haefliger 2013
Clarification-oriented feedback is more prevalent when contributors have more limited project familiarity.
“Prior work documents that such clarification-oriented feedback is more prevalent when contributors have more limited project familiarity (Rullani and Haefliger 2013, Tsay et al. 2014, Joblin et al. 2017).”
From The Impact of Generative AI on Collaborative Open-Source Software Development: Evidence from GitHub Copilot (2024) · cites this paper as Rullani and Haefliger 2013
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“From these studies, the literature has moved on to analyze the process that individuals may go through when progressing from the periphery to the core (Jensen and Scacchi, 2005; O‘Mahony and Ferraro, 2006; von Krogh et al., 2003).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Rullani, F., & Haefliger, S.
- Affiliations
- Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (IT)
- City, University of London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Rullani, Francesco
- Venue
- Research Policy
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013-05
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 941-953
- ISSN
- 0048-7333 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2028318940
- Cited by
- 79
- References
- 8
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- FWCI
- 8.24
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Research Policy (publishedVersion)
- City Research Online (City University London) (acceptedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- IRIS - Institutional Research Information System (Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli) (submittedVersion)
- ARCA (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Open Source Software Innovations
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Knowledge Management and Sharing
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
- Keywords
- free and open source software, periphery, division of labor, social practices, standards, codes, asynchronous communication, open innovation
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