Developer experience · Conceptual/analytical scholarly study that identifies and articulates core principles of community-managed governance from OSS initiatives.
The Governance of Open Source Initiatives: What Does It Mean to Be Community Managed?
Journal of Management & Governance · 2007
Summary
The study identifies five core principles critical to community-managed governance and examines organization/governance in commercially influenced OSS communities.
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Possible founder application
A compact governance checklist for defining decision rights, legitimacy, participation, and commercial boundaries before a developer-tool community scales.
Reported result
What the study found
The study identifies five core principles critical to community-managed governance and examines organization/governance in commercially influenced OSS communities.
Research question
What the authors investigated
What organizational and governance principles characterize community-managed open-source initiatives, especially under commercial influence?
Design
Conceptual/analytical scholarly study that identifies and articulates core principles of community-managed governance from OSS initiatives.
Sample and setting
Open-source software initiatives and their governance arrangements; not a statistical sample.
Scope and transfer
Limitations to keep in view
It is primarily a conceptual governance analysis rather than a causal or representative quantitative evaluation; principles may require contextual adaptation.
Research sources
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