Governance strategies for open collaboration: Focusing on resource allocation in open source software development organizations

作者：

Highlights：

• Efficient OSS governance mechanism is proposed with respect to resource allocation.

• Hierarchical structure of developers’ network is recommended for high performance.

• Most of developers should focus on a small number of projects in OSSD organization.

• OSSD organizational level analysis is conducted by using GitHub data.

摘要

•Efficient OSS governance mechanism is proposed with respect to resource allocation.•Hierarchical structure of developers’ network is recommended for high performance.•Most of developers should focus on a small number of projects in OSSD organization.•OSSD organizational level analysis is conducted by using GitHub data.

论文关键词：Open collaboration,Open source software,OSS governance,Project management,Resource allocation

论文评审过程：Received 8 December 2016, Revised 24 March 2017, Accepted 12 May 2017, Available online 22 May 2017, Version of Record 22 May 2017.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2017.05.006