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Understanding Collaboration in the Open-Source Arena

Jose Teixeira, Understanding Collaboration in the Open-Source Arena. In: J. (2014 August). Understanding Coopetition in the Open-Source Arena: The Cases of WebKit Teixeira, OpenStack. In Proceedings of The International Symposium on Open Collaboration (p. 39). ACM. (Eds.), OpenSym '14 Proceedings of The International Symposium on Open Collaboration , 39–45, ACM, 2014.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2641580.2641627

Abstract:

In an era of software crisis, the move of firms towards distributed software development teams is being challenged by emerging collaboration issues. On this matter, the open-source phenomenon may shed some light, as successful cases on distributed collaboration in the open-source community have been recurrently reported. In our research we explore collaboration networks in the WebKit and OpenStack high-networked open-source projects, by mining their source-code version-control-systems data with Social Network Analysis (SNA). Our approach allows us to observe how key events in the industry affect open-source collaboration networks over time. With our findings, we highlight the explanatory power from network visualizations capturing the collaborative dynamics of high-networked software projects over time. Moreover, we argue that competing companies that sell similar products in the same market, can collaborate in the open-source community while publicly manifesting intense rivalry (e.g. Apple vs Samsung patent-wars). After integrating our findings with the current body of theoretical knowledge in management strategy, economics, strategic alliances and coopetition, we propose the novel notion of open-coopetition, where rival firms collaborate with competitors in the open-source community. We argue that classical coopetition management theories do not fully explain the competitive and collaborative issues that are simultaneously present and interconnected in the WebKit and OpenStack open-source communities. We propose the development of the novel open-coopetition theory for a better understanding on how rival-firms collaborate with competitors by open-source manners.

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@INPROCEEDINGS{inpTeixeira_Jose14e,
  title = {Understanding Collaboration in the Open-Source Arena},
  booktitle = {OpenSym '14 Proceedings of The International Symposium on Open Collaboration },
  author = {Teixeira, Jose},
  editor = {Teixeira, J. (2014 August). Understanding Coopetition in the Open-Source Arena: The Cases of WebKit and OpenStack. In Proceedings of The International Symposium on Open Collaboration (p. 39). ACM.},
  publisher = {ACM},
  pages = {39–45},
  year = {2014},
  ISSN = {2044-6055},
}

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