The Emergence of Governance in an Open Source Community
通过对一个开源软件社区的多方法研究，发现成员建立了共享的正式权威基础，但通过民主机制加以限制，使权威观念随时间演变，最终形成的治理体系比最初设计更广泛。
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.