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The Emergence of Governance in an Open Source Community

Siobhán O'Mahony; Fabrizio Ferraro · Academy of Management Journal, 50(5), 1079–1106 · 2007

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Siobhán O'Mahony; Fabrizio Ferraro
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DOI 10.5465/amj.2007.27169153
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2026-09-01

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TheoryIn their study of Debian, O'Mahony and Ferraro found that members developed a shared basis of formal authority but limited it with democratic mechanisms; the conception of authority they eventually settled on was more expansive than their original design.