Open Source Software Research - Papers & Presentations

Publications
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Stewart, Katherine J. "OSS Project Success: From Internal Dynamics to External Impact," in the proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering held in Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2004.  

Stewart, Katherine J., Darcy, David P., and Daniel, Sherae “Opportunities and Challenges Applying Functional Data Analysis to the Study of Open Source Software,” Statistical Science (21:2), 2006, p. 167-178.

Stewart, Katherine J. and Gosain, Sanjay. “The Impact of Ideology on Effectiveness in Open Source Software Development Teams” MIS Quarterly (30:2), 2006, pp.291-314.

Stewart, Katherine J, Ammeter, Tony A. and Maruping, Likoebe “Impacts of License Choice and Organizational Sponsorship on User Interest and Development Activity in Open Source Software Projects,” Information Systems Research (17:2), 2006, pp. 126-144.

Stewart, Katherine J. and Gosain, Sanjay, “The Moderating Role of Development Stage in Affecting Free/Open Source Software Project Performance,” Software Process Improvement and Practice Journal (11:2), 2006, pp. 177-191.

Stewart, Katherine J. “Studies of Success in Open Source Software Projects” in Successful OSS Project Design and Implementation: Requirements, Tools, Social Designs, Reward Structures and Coordination Methods, Hind, Belbaly and Meissonier (eds.), Gower Publishing, UK, (in press).

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Presentations

Stewart, Katherine J., Qiu, Yixin, and Bartol, Kay. “Women’s Participation and Roles in the KDE Women’s Group: Exploring a Potential Conduit to Work in the KDE Project,” presented at the Perspectives on Gender and Technology Conference, April 11, 2008.

Stewart, Katherine J. “Exploring Complexity in Open Source Software Projects” invited presentation at Michigan State University, February 2, 2008.

Stewart, Katherine J., Qiu, Yixin, and Bartol, Kay. “Women’s Groups in Open Source Software: Four Exploratory Case Studies,” presented at the Academy of Management meetings in Philadelphia, PA, August 2007.

Daniel, Sherae, Agarwal, Ritu, and Stewart, Katherine J. “An Absorptive Capacity Perspective on Open Source Software Development Group Performance,” in the Proceedings of the 27^th International Conference on Information Systems, Milwaukee, WI, December, 2006.

Stewart, Katherine J. “Success Factors in Open Source Software Development” invited presentation at American University, November 30, 2006.

Stewart, Katherine J., “Success Factors in Open Source Software Development: A Theoretical Model and Empirical Test,” invited presentation at the Southern Economic Association conference, Washington, DC, November 2005.

Stewart, Katherine J. “Success Factors in Open Source Software Development” invited presentation at the PhD Project Information Systems Doctoral Students Association Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, 2005

Stewart, Katherine J., Darcy, David P., Daniel, Sherae. “Divining Complexity Patterns in Open Source Software Projects using Functional Data Analysis,” presented at the 1^st Interdisciplinary Symposium on Statistical Challenges in Ecommerce, College Park, MD, 2005.

Stewart, Katherine J., Darcy, David P., and Daniel, Sherae. “Observations on Patterns of Development in Open Source Software Projects,” in the proceedings of the 5^th Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Software Engineering, St. Louis, Missouri, May, 2005.

Stewart, Katherine J., Ammeter, Tony A., and Maruping, Likoebe. “A Preliminary Analysis of the Influences of Licensing and Organizational Sponsorship on Success in Open Source Projects” in the proceedings of the 38^th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 2005.

Stewart, Katherine J. “OSS Project Success: From Internal Dynamics to External Impact,” in the proceedings of the 4^th Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Software Engineering, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2004.

Stewart, Katherine J., Ammeter, Anthony P. and Maruping, Likoebe, “Success Factors in Open Source Software Development: Impacts of License Restrictiveness and Organizational Sponsorship,” presented at the 20^th annual Washington Consortium of Business Schools Faculty Research Forum, Washington DC, December 4, 2004.

“Open Source Software: Are you using it?”, interview on Maryland Public Television Smith Business Close-Up, December 16, 2004.

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