Koordination überbetrieblicher Wissensproduktion: Zum Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Unternehmen und Communities in Open-Source-Projekten mit Unternehmensbeteiligung

Feuerstein Patrick () and Hanekop Heidemarie ()
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Feuerstein Patrick: Institut für Soziologie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 3, 37073 Göttingen, Deutschland
Hanekop Heidemarie: Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut Göttingen (SOFI) an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Friedländer Weg 31, 37085 Göttingen, Deutschland

Arbeit, 2017, vol. 26, issue 1, 111-136

Abstract: Open Source Software (OSS) Communities emerged as a specific kind of collaborative innovation based on the digitalization of products as well as working processes. Due to their potential to facilitate distributed and interorganizational knowledge production, firms increasingly participate in OSS communities for commercial purposes. Although digital technical infrastructures are key for this kind of innovation, OSS communities heavily rely on nontechnical, social mechanisms of the community. By drawing upon an in-depth case study of an OSS community with firm participation, this contribution analyzes the digitally mediated cooperation between community and firms, with a special focus on how actors try to handle the tensions between the collaborative governance of the community and the hierarchical governance of the participating companies.

Keywords: Open Source Software; distributed knowledge production; governance; Open Source Software; verteilte Wissensproduktion; Governance; Open Source Software; distributed knowledge production; governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1515/arbeit-2017-0006

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