Navel Gazing or the Long View?: The Influence of Firm Positioning with Respect to OSS Communities on a Developer’s Firm Embeddedness

Presenter Information

Xuan Lin, University of CincinnatiFollow
Sherae Daniel, University of CincinnatiFollow
Liwei Chen, University of CincinnatiFollow

Paper Type

ERF

Description

Open-source software development holds a central position in mainstream software development. We seek to understand how the relationship between OSS communities and firms can be transformed into one that offers value to both entities. Leveraging a conservation of resources perspective, we investigate how distinct firm focuses on the OSS community drive developer firm embeddedness. Using a sample of developers working for firms and making contributions to OSS communities, we find that if the developer perceives their employer holds an internal focus with respect to the OSS community, the developer is embedded in the firm. Whereas when the developer perceives their employer holds an external focus, it affects developer’s firm embeddedness positively when developers are deeply embedded in OSS community and negatively when they are less embedded. Our results hold implications for firms engaging OSS communities.

Paper Number

1133

Comments

SIG CNoW

Recommended Citation

Lin, Xuan; Daniel, Sherae; and Chen, Liwei, "Navel Gazing or the Long View?: The Influence of Firm Positioning with Respect to OSS Communities on a Developer’s Firm Embeddedness" (2023). AMCIS 2023 Proceedings. 1.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2023/sig_cnow/sig_cnow/1