Knowledge Creation in Virtual Communities – Exploring Practices in Open Source Software Hacker Communities

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10.2991/itmr.2015.5.2.4How to use a DOI?

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Knowledge Creation in Virtual Communities – Exploring Practices in Open Source Software Hacker Communities

Abstract

This paper offers an exploratory conceptual and theoretical examination of knowledge creation within virtual communities of hackers. By distinguishing between different types of virtual communities, we argue that hacker communities involved in free and open source activities possess special structural and processual characteristics that are conducive to innovative product development. Drawing on diverse literatures, this paper thus builds an initial understanding of how a hacker community is organized and how knowledge creation and innovation occur in the hybrid virtual environment.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - JOUR
AU  - Meera Sarma
AU  - Thomas Matheus
PY  - 2015
DA  - 2015/06/30
TI  - Knowledge Creation in Virtual Communities – Exploring Practices in Open Source Software Hacker Communities
JO  - The International Technology Management Review
SP  - 94
EP  - 104
VL  - 5
IS  - 2
SN  - 1835-5269
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/itmr.2015.5.2.4
DO  - 10.2991/itmr.2015.5.2.4
ID  - Sarma2015
ER  -