Abstract
Open Source Software (OSS) is developed by geographically distributed unpaid programmers. The success of such a seemingly chaotic OSS project will largely depend on how the project leader organizes and motivates the developers to contribute. Grounded on leadership and motivation theories, we proposed and tested a research model that seeks to explain the behavioral effects of a leader on the developers' motivation to contribute. Survey data collected from 118 OSS developers on Sourceforge.net was used to test the research model. The results indicate that leaders' transformational leadership is positively related to developers' intrinsic motivation and leaders' active management by exception, a form of transactional leadership, is positively related to developers' extrinsic motivation. Copyright 2006 ACM.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | SIGMIS CPR '06: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on computer personnel research: Forty four years of computer personnel research: achievements, challenges & the future |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Pages | 34-43 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781595933492 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 2006 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 44th Annual computer personnel research Conference (SIGMIS/CPR 2006) - Claremont, United States Duration: 13 Apr 2006 → 15 Apr 2006 |
Conference
| Conference | 44th Annual computer personnel research Conference (SIGMIS/CPR 2006) |
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| Place | United States |
| City | Claremont |
| Period | 13/04/06 → 15/04/06 |
Research Keywords
- Leadership
- Motivation
- Open Source Software Development
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