EXPLORING THE KNOWLEDGE CREATING COMMUNITIES: AN ANALYSIS OF THE LINUX KERNEL DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

Haoxiang Xia, Shuangling Luo and Taketoshi Yoshida
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Haoxiang Xia: Institute of Systems Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, No.2, Linggong Road, Dalian, 116024, China
Shuangling Luo: Graduate School of Knowledge Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan
Taketoshi Yoshida: Graduate School of Knowledge Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan

Chapter 30 in Managing Knowledge for Global and Collaborative Innovations, 2009, pp 385-397 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractThe knowledge creation processes and activities in online communities become prominent in our society, with the proliferation of all sorts of online communities. This phenomenon brings enormous challenging research issues. In this paper, we give an in-depth analysis on an actual case of the Linux kernel developer community, to illustrate that such community is essentially an evolutionary collective-intelligent system; and this system grows through the spontaneous self-organization processes. This work may pave the way for further theoretical exploration of the knowledge-creation processes in online communities; and on the other hand it has practical implications for developing computing technologies to facilitate the development of the "knowledge-creating communities."

Keywords: Management; Collaboration; Innovation; Knowledge Sharing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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