Starting open source collaborative innovation: the antecedents of network formation in community source |
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| Authors: | Manlu Liu Clyde Eiríkur Hull Yu‐Ting Caisy Hung |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Management Information Systems, Saunders College of Business, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA;2. Department of Management, Saunders College of Business, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA;3. School of Individualized Study, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA |
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| Abstract: | Specific needs in the area of enterprise applications have led to a new type of collaborative open source innovation development across institution borders: community source. We use the Kuali community source network, a jointly managed, border‐spanning organization that supplies the institutions that created it, to describe how community source works. This study builds a theoretical basis for understanding the individual and institutional factors affecting community source network formation and the decision by organizations to join a community source network. We identify eight antecedents of decisions about forming or joining community source initiatives: motives, learning, trust, norms and monitoring, institutional similarity, external funding, hostile external environment and information technology. © 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd |
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| Keywords: | community source network formation open source collaborative innovation |
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