Starting open source collaborative innovation: the antecedents of network formation in community source
研究了社区源这种跨机构开源协作网络的形成前因，识别出动机、学习、信任等八个影响组织加入决策的因素，对理解企业应用领域的开源创新有参考价值。
Abstract Specific needs in the area of enterprise applications have led to a new type of collaborative open source innovation development across institution borders: community source. We use the Kuali community source network, a jointly managed, border‐spanning organization that supplies the institutions that created it, to describe how community source works. This study builds a theoretical basis for understanding the individual and institutional factors affecting community source network formation and the decision by organizations to join a community source network. We identify eight antecedents of decisions about forming or joining community source initiatives: motives, learning, trust, norms and monitoring, institutional similarity, external funding, hostile external environment and information technology. © 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd