TY - GEN
T1 - Measuring knowledge sharing in open source software development teams
AU - Long, Yuan
AU - Siau, Keng
AU - Howell, Kris
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PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - The study provides an approach to measure the extent of knowledge sharing in Open Source Software (OSS) development in terms of two aspects: the quality of knowledge sharing which is indicated by the helpfulness of the messages, and the quantity of knowledge sharing which is indicated by the volume of the messages. The study developed a computer-aided content analysis program to assess the helpfulness of the messages based on a set of keywords and the length of the messages. The approach was applied to measure the extent of knowledge sharing of 150 OSS projects. The results further confirmed that the two measures (i.e., helpfulness of messages and volume of messages) assess different aspects of knowledge sharing. Another contribution of this research is the computer-aided content analysis program, which has been shown to be effective and reliable and can be applied in future research.
AB - The study provides an approach to measure the extent of knowledge sharing in Open Source Software (OSS) development in terms of two aspects: the quality of knowledge sharing which is indicated by the helpfulness of the messages, and the quantity of knowledge sharing which is indicated by the volume of the messages. The study developed a computer-aided content analysis program to assess the helpfulness of the messages based on a set of keywords and the length of the messages. The approach was applied to measure the extent of knowledge sharing of 150 OSS projects. The results further confirmed that the two measures (i.e., helpfulness of messages and volume of messages) assess different aspects of knowledge sharing. Another contribution of this research is the computer-aided content analysis program, which has been shown to be effective and reliable and can be applied in future research.
KW - Content analysis
KW - Knowledge sharing
KW - Open source software (OSS) development
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M3 - RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)
SN - 9781604233810
VL - 5
T3 - Association for Information Systems - 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2007: Reaching New Heights
SP - 3429
EP - 3440
BT - Association for Information Systems - 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2007: Reaching New Heights
T2 - 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2007)
Y2 - 10 August 2007 through 12 August 2007
ER -