Motivation, Governance, and the Viability of Hybrid Forms in Open Source Software Development
基于两个不同治理结构的软件社区数据，归纳出个体开发者参与开源项目的动机演变框架，发现多数开发者满足需求后离开，少数成为关键爱好者，治理结构影响动机演变，对采用混合策略的企业有启示。
Open source software projects rely on the voluntary efforts of thousands of software developers, yet we know little about why developers choose to participate in this collective development process. This paper inductively derives a framework for understanding participation from the perspective of the individual software developer based on data from two software communities with different governance structures. In both communities, a need for software-related improvements drives initial participation. The majority of participants leave the community once their needs are met, however, a small subset remains involved. For this set of developers, motives evolve over time and participation becomes a hobby. These hobbyists are critical to the long-term viability of the software code: They take on tasks that might otherwise go undone and work to maintain the simplicity and modularity of the code. Governance structures affect this evolution of motives. Implications for firms interested in implementing hybrid strategies designed to combine the advantages of open source software development with proprietary ownership and control are discussed.