کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
351946 618481 2008 19 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Exploring motivations for contributing to open source initiatives: The roles of contribution context and personal values
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی کامپیوتر نرم افزارهای علوم کامپیوتر
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Exploring motivations for contributing to open source initiatives: The roles of contribution context and personal values
چکیده انگلیسی

We explore contextual and dispositional correlates of the motivation to contribute to open source initiatives. We examine how the context of the open source project, and the personal values of contributors, are related to the types of motivations for contributing. A web-based survey was administered to 300 contributors in two prominent open source contexts: software and content. As hypothesized, software contributors placed a greater emphasis on reputation-gaining and self-development motivations, compared with content contributors, who placed a greater emphasis on altruistic motives. Furthermore, the hypothesized relationships were found between contributors’ personal values and their motivations for contributing.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Computers in Human Behavior - Volume 24, Issue 5, September 2008, Pages 2055–2073
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