Sustainability of Open Collaborative Communities: Analyzing Recruitment Efficiency
Kevin Crowston, Nicolas Jullien, Felipe Ortega · Technology Innovation Management Review · 2013
IntroductionMobilizing hundreds of contributors, as in the case of Linux, to thousands of contributors, as in the case of Wikipedia, open online communities are viewed as a central point for innovative generation of new knowledge (Chesbrough, 2003; Mahr and Lievens, 2012). Open source initiatives are numerous and they span various industries (Balka et al., 2009). The success