PhD Thesis Defence, Poonacha Medappa
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PhD candidate, Poonacha Medappa will publicly defend his PhD thesis in Management, Specialization in Information Systems and Operations Management.
Date: August 23, 2019, 10.00am, Campus HEC Paris, Room T104
Thesis Topic: Essays on Value Creation in the Open Source Phenomenon: Understanding the Influence of Work Structures, Team Composition, and Community Ideologies
Supervisor: Professor Srivastava, Shirish C , HEC Paris
Abstract: This dissertation comprising three essays explores the value creation mechanisms associated with the work structures, team composition, and community ideologies of open source software projects. The first essay examines the unique nature of open source work which is dominated by the sequential layering of individual tasks. This essay theorizes the motivational mechanisms associated with the work structures of open source projects and examines their influence on project success. While the first essay establishes the importance of task-work organization in open source projects, the second essay expands the inquiry into the role of team composition in the project’s success. Building on the theories of coordination and network governance, this essay studies the influence of source code access restrictions imposed on team members in mitigating coordination challenges. The third essay pursues an overarching view of the open source community by examining the ideological foundations of the community and studies its influence on project success. The essay scrutinizes two ideological shifts seen in the open source community that have altered the beliefs of ‘openness’ and ‘prevention of commercial appropriation’, on which the open source phenomenon was founded.
Contact: doctorat@hec.fr