Changes in emergent software development routines: The moderation effects of routine diversity

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Highlights：

• Routine changes reduce project popularity in open-source software development projects.

• Routine diversity provides a coping mechanism for developers to adapt to changing routines in fluid organizational forms.

• Sequence-mining digital trace data from project repositories quantifies routine change and routine diversity.

• Core developers and managers should monitor changes in development routines while maintaining the diversity of routines.

摘要

•Routine changes reduce project popularity in open-source software development projects.•Routine diversity provides a coping mechanism for developers to adapt to changing routines in fluid organizational forms.•Sequence-mining digital trace data from project repositories quantifies routine change and routine diversity.•Core developers and managers should monitor changes in development routines while maintaining the diversity of routines.

论文关键词：Open-source software development,Organizational routines,Project popularity,Coordination,Sequence analysis,Fluid organizations

论文评审过程：Received 28 May 2020, Revised 23 December 2020, Accepted 23 December 2020, Available online 13 January 2021, Version of Record 13 January 2021.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102306