Virtual Organizational Learnign in Open Source Software Development Projects

Yoris Au, Darrell Carpenter, Xiaogang Chen and Jan Clark
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Yoris Au: University of Texas at San Antonio
Darrell Carpenter: University of Texas at San Antonio
Xiaogang Chen: University of Texas at San Antonio
Jan Clark: University of Texas at San Antonio

No 13, Working Papers from College of Business, University of Texas at San Antonio

Abstract: We studied the existence of virtual organizational learning in open source software (OSS) development projects. Specifically, our research focused on learning effects of OSS projects and factors that affect the learning process. The number and percentage of resolved bugs and bug resolution time of 118 SourceForge.net OSS projects were used to measure the learning effects> Projects were characterized by project type, number and experience of developers, number of bugs, and bug resolution time. Our results provide evidence of virtual organizational learning in OSS development projects.

Keywords: Virtual; organizational; leraning:; Organizational; learning; curve:; Virtual; organization:; Open; source; software; development:; Project; performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2007-05-04
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