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The Emergence of Governance in an Open Source Community
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Little is known about how communities producing collective goods govern themselves. In a multimethod study of one open source software community, we found that members developed a shared basis of formal authority but limited it with democratic mechanisms that enabled experimentation with shifting conceptions of authority over time. When members settled on a shared conception of authority, it was more expansive than their original design. A statistical test of the predictors of leadership reinforced this finding. By blending bureaucratic and democratic mechanisms, the governance system evolved with the community's changing conceptions of authority.
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“Likewise, engaging in collective action threats and expecting open source governance practices to remain unchanged is also risky as open source governance may be controlled by just a few people willing to make unilateral changes to offset collective action threats (O'Mahony and Ferraro 2007; Shaikh and Henfridsson 2017;Mindel et al. 2018).”
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“This configuration is consistent with Shaikh and Henfridsson's (2017) observation that open source projects can simultaneously incorporate meritocratic and autocratic modes of governance, and O'Mahony and Ferraro's (2007) observation that tensions can arise from how authority is allocated and exercised within an open source project.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- O'Mahony, S., & Ferraro, F.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Davis
- Universidad de Navarra (ES)
- ORCID
- Ferraro, Fabrizio
- Venue
- Academy of Management Journal
- Publisher
- Academy of Management
- Published
- 2007-10
- Volume
- 50
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1079-1106
- ISSN
- 0001-4273 (ISSN-L)
- 1948-0989
- OpenAlex
- W2102704527
- Cited by
- 909
- References
- 177
- Citations by year
- 2026: 60 · 2025: 38 · 2024: 42 · 2023: 32 · 2022: 48 · 2021: 48 · 2020: 59 · 2019: 50 · 2018: 46 · 2017: 49 · 2016: 60 · 2015: 50 · 2014: 57 · 2013: 76 · 2012: 47
- FWCI
- 80.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Academy of Management Journal (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Open Source Software Innovations
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Knowledge Management and Sharing
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Management and Organizational Studies
- Keywords
- open source communities, community governance, authority, leadership, democratic mechanisms, public goods, governance evolution
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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