Is bigger always better? toward a resource-based model of open source software development communities
Glen Sagers · 2007
members. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my dissertation co-chairs, Drs. Molly Wasko and David Paradice for their patience, support and guidance in this process, and for their aid in clarifying my thinking on this study. I would like to thank my dissertation committee, Drs. G. Stacy Sirmans and Kathy Chudoba, for their advice for making this research more focused. I appreciate the advice and commiseration of my fellow doctoral students. I would like to thank Dr. Terry Dennis and the faculty at Illinois State University for believing in me during the final stages of this dissertation. I wish to thank my wife, Sharon and my mother and father, Diane & Larry, for their proofreading of various drafts of this document. Finally, I wish to thank my wife and children for their infinite patience over the last few years, it would not have been possible without them to lean on. I would also like to thank those individuals who have contributed to open source software. They not only made this dissertation topic possible, they made it much more pleasant to write. I would particularly like to thank those who have contributed to the OpenOffice.org