Leadership characteristics and developers' motivation in open source software development

被引：57

作者：

Li, Yan ^{[1
]}

Tan, Chuan-Hoo ^{[2
]}

Teo, Hock-Hai ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] ESSEC Business Sch, Informat Syst & Decis Sci Dept, F-95021 Cergy Pontoise, France

[2] City Univ Hong Kong, Dept Informat Syst, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, Peoples R China

[3] Natl Univ Singapore, Dept Informat Syst, Singapore 117418, Singapore

来源：

INFORMATION & MANAGEMENT | 2012年 / 49卷 / 05期

关键词：

Path-Goal Theory; Motivation; Leadership Style; Open Source Software; Survey; TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP; PERFORMANCE;

D O I：

10.1016/j.im.2012.05.005

中图分类号：

TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];

学科分类号：

0812 ;

摘要：

Open Source Software (OSS) is generally developed by interested professionals who have decided to participate in the process. The presence of effective leaders who both steer the development and motivate the developers is crucial to ensure a successful product. Using path-goal theory and built on leadership and motivation theories, we proposed and tested a model that can be used to assess the relationship between an OSS project leader's leadership style and a developer's motivation to contribute to the software development. We specifically decomposed the leadership and motivation construct to understand the hidden mechanisms by which leadership impacts motivation. A set of survey data collected from 118 OSS developers on Sourceforge.net was used to test our hypotheses. Our results indicate that leaders' transformational leadership is positively related to developers' intrinsic motivation and that leaders' active management style is positively related to the developers' extrinsic motivation. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：257 / 267

页数：11

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