How founders’ social capital affects the success of open-source projects: A resource-based view of project teams

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Highlights：

• This study clarifies the inconsistent effect of founder’s social capital on innovation performance in the context of a self-organized online collaborative network.

• The mediating role of team resource acquisition and utilization is identified.

• Founder’s social capital can encourage many volunteers to participate (human resources) and give rise to brokerage opportunities at the project team level (organizational resources).

• Team size and team brokerage contribute differently to innovation performance.

摘要

Highlights•This study clarifies the inconsistent effect of founder’s social capital on innovation performance in the context of a self-organized online collaborative network.•The mediating role of team resource acquisition and utilization is identified.•Founder’s social capital can encourage many volunteers to participate (human resources) and give rise to brokerage opportunities at the project team level (organizational resources).•Team size and team brokerage contribute differently to innovation performance.

论文关键词：Innovation,Open source,Product development,Resource-based view,Social capital

论文评审过程：Available online 25 May 2018, Version of Record 25 May 2018.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elerap.2018.05.003