Champions of revealing--the role of open source developers in commercial firms
研究了商业公司中参与开源软件开发的员工如何平衡对公司和开源社区的双重忠诚，发现管理层对开放性的担忧过度，而员工并未因自由软件意识形态而泄露商业机密。
The link between firms engaging in open source software (OSS) development and the OSS community is established by individual developers. This linkage might entail a principal-agent issue due to the developer's double allegiance to firm and OSS community, and expose the firm to the risk of losing intellectual property. Using both interviews and a large-scale survey, I substantiate the importance of the developer's role. However, neither interview data nor regression analysis show indications of commercially harmful revealing behavior induced by "Free Software ideology." Management, on the other hand, sometimes seems to be overly concerned about openness. I conclude that a more positive stance towards openness will allow firms to better share in the benefits of open innovation processes. Copyright 2009 , Oxford University Press.