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PC和移动行业的开放式合作竞争:WebKit案例

Open-coopetition in the PC and mobile industries: the WebKit case

Jose Teixeira

摘要:

在软件危机的时代,公司向地理分布的软件开发团队的移动受到了协作问题的挑战。在这个问题上,开源现象可能会提供一些启示,因为开源社区中分布式协作的成功案例一再被报道。虽然从业者移动与全球分布式软件开发的困难,是一个缺乏研究解决大规模分布式软件项目的协作动态。更具体地说,即使有经验的表现之间的合作软件公司,市场竞争的软件产品在同一个市场,有一个明确的缺乏研究解决信息系统的发展,通过合作竞争的方式。在解决以前的呼吁,以支持可视化的时间方面,以代表生态系统的变化和演变的方法和技术的进步,我们结合了虚拟人种学(VA)与社会网络分析(SNA)在公开和自然发生的数据,使我们能够重建和可视化的网络序列中的WebKit协作的演变。我们首先筛选公开数据,如公司公告,财务报告和专业媒体,使我们能够深入了解行业背景。在对移动设备和PC行业的竞争动态有了更好的理解之后,我们开始利用SNA提取和分析WebKit社区的社交网络,SNA是一种广泛建立在社会科学学科中的新兴方法。我们的案例证实了许多关于合作竞争的文献,但更详细的观察表明,并非所有的竞合理论命题都可以推广到开源领域。

英文摘要:

In an era of software crisis, the move of firms towards geographically-distributed software development teams is being challenged by collaboration issues. On this matter, the open-source phenomenon may shed some light, as successful cases on distributed collaboration in the open-source community have been recurrently reported. While practitioners move with difficulties towards globally distributed software development, there is a lack of research addressing the collaboration dynamics of large-scale distributed software projects. More particularly, even if there are empirical manifestations of collaboration among software-houses that market rival-software products within the same market, there is a clear lack of research addressing the development of information systems by coopetitive manners. While addressing a previous call for the advancement of methods and techniques to support the visualization of temporal aspects to represent change and evolution in ecosystems, we combined and virtual-ethnography (VA) with a Social Network Analysis (SNA) over publicly-available and naturally-occurring data that allowed us to re-construct and visualize the evolution of the WebKit collaboration in a sequence of networks. We started by screening, publicly available data such as company announcements, financial reports and specialized-press that allowed us to gain insights of the industrial context. After attaining a better understanding of the the competitive dynamics of the mobile-devices and PC industries, we started extracting and analyzing the social network of the WebKit community leveraging SNA, which is an emergent method widely established across disciplines of social sciences in general.Our case confirmed much of the established literature on coopetition, but more detailed observations revealed that not all coopetition theoretical propositions can be generalized to the open-source arena.

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