Start Date
11-12-2016 12:00 AM
Description
Open source software communities are fluid form of organizing where the constituent members and the interactions among the members are continuously and rapidly changing over time. However, certain stability such as identity and norms maintains in spite of the dynamic nature of the communities. This paper seeks to resolve the tension between the fluidity and stability that co-present in open source community through a lens of organizational routine, and proposes a two-step approach to capture routines in the context of open source software development process. Using 200 open source projects on GitHub as a preliminary analysis, this research-in-progress demonstrates the capability of the method while expecting to unleash its whole potential in a future study.
Recommended Citation
Li, Xinyu; Yoo, Youngjin; and Zhang, Zhewei, "Searching for “Stability” in Fluidity: A Routine-based View of Open Source Software Development Process" (2016). ICIS 2016 Proceedings. 26.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2016/SocialMedia/Presentations/26
Searching for “Stability” in Fluidity: A Routine-based View of Open Source Software Development Process
Open source software communities are fluid form of organizing where the constituent members and the interactions among the members are continuously and rapidly changing over time. However, certain stability such as identity and norms maintains in spite of the dynamic nature of the communities. This paper seeks to resolve the tension between the fluidity and stability that co-present in open source community through a lens of organizational routine, and proposes a two-step approach to capture routines in the context of open source software development process. Using 200 open source projects on GitHub as a preliminary analysis, this research-in-progress demonstrates the capability of the method while expecting to unleash its whole potential in a future study.