dc.creator | Martínez Torres, María del Rocío | es |
dc.creator | Toral, S. L. | es |
dc.creator | Barrero, Federico | es |
dc.creator | Cortés Cobos, Francisco Javier | es |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-05T10:30:52Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-04-05T10:30:52Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1066-2243 | es |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11441/39504 | |
dc.description.abstract | Purpose – The Internet has evolved, prompted in part by new Web 2.0 technologies, to become a more
widespread platform for interaction, communication, and activism. Virtual communities, or groups of
people informally bound together by shared expertise, synthesise this Internet evolution and theWeb 2.0
technology. Users increasingly want to engage online with one another and with organisations of all
kinds. These novel Internet-based technologies dominate the new business models of the digital economy
giving companies radical new ways to harvest the talents of innovators working outside corporate
boundaries. One of the most illustrative examples of this new trend is the Open Source Software (OSS)
projects development. This paper aims to analyse the structure and topology of the virtual community
supporting one of the most successfully OSS projects, Linux. The objective is to provide conclusions for
being successful in the development of future virtual communities. As companies learn to manage these
virtual communities, they will develop smarter and faster ways to create value through them.
Design/methodology/approach – The interactions of the virtual community members of an
ARM-embedded Linux project website is analysed through social network analysis techniques. The
participants’ activity is studied and some conclusions about the participation features are obtained
using the Gini coefficient. In particular, a participation inequality behaviour or a concentration on a
small number of developers is clearly observed.
Findings – The paper deals with the guidelines that virtual communities should follow to be
successful. Results about the structure of a successful virtual community and its time evolution are
provided to determine the mentioned guidelines.
Research limitations/implications – The research is limited to a particular virtual community
engaged with the development of the ARM-embedded Linux OSS. Other successful virtual
communities can be analysed, and the conclusions could be compared. Anyway, the proposed analysis
methodology can be extended to other virtual communities.
Originality/value – The paper fulfils the development and features of Internet virtual communities
to be successful. Results have important implications over the development of new software business
models based on virtual communities and open source software. Contributions about the best
organisation of virtual communities leading to a successful development of the underlying project are
presented. | es |
dc.description.sponsorship | Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia DPI2007- 60128 | es |
dc.description.sponsorship | Junta de Andalucía. Consejería de Innovación, Ciencia y Empresa P07-TIC-02621 | es |
dc.format | application/pdf | es |
dc.language.iso | eng | es |
dc.relation.ispartof | Internet Research, 20(1), 72-86 | es |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | * |
dc.subject | Communities | es |
dc.subject | Internet | es |
dc.subject | Social networks | es |
dc.subject | Computer software | es |
dc.subject | Information transfer | es |
dc.title | The role of Internet in the development of future software projects | es |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es |
dcterms.identifier | https://ror.org/03yxnpp24 | |
dc.type.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion | es |
dc.rights.accessRights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es |
dc.contributor.affiliation | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Administración de Empresas y Comercialización e Investigación de Mercados (Marketing) | es |
dc.contributor.affiliation | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica | es |
dc.relation.projectID | DPI2007- 60128 | es |
dc.relation.projectID | P07-TIC-02621 | es |
dc.relation.publisherversion | http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10662241011020842 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1108/10662241011020842 | es |
dc.identifier.idus | https://idus.us.es/xmlui/handle/11441/39504 | |
dc.contributor.funder | Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (MEC). España | |
dc.contributor.funder | Junta de Andalucía | |